Our Solar/Alt Energy Future

[Woodznutz]

Reeves said of the $1.9 billion plant that is slated to create 2,000 jobs paying an average salary of $66,000 annually to build electric batteries to power commercial trucks.​

What will that do to the cost of those vehicles?

 

[Dragonlady]

How much did the new appliances cost, and is your attic insulation up to the new standard of R-49 to R-60? I upped mine to R-49 and it makes a big difference in heating and AC costs. Did it myself for about $300.

I didn’t buy them but the landlord overpaid for them. Given that the alternative is a laundromat at a cost of $20 to $30 a week, the units pay for themselves in less than a year.

 

[Grumblenuts]

What will that do to the cost of those vehicles?

The solar-plus-battery system can provide the “consistent, reliable power supply” that melting furnaces require — and at a cost that’s “comparable to traditional power sources,” said David Dugan, director of corporate communications for Timet’s parent company, Precision Castparts Corp.

You mean other than making the existence of such vehicles possible in the first place and creating a lot of skilled, domestic jobs?.. apparently not much. That is, unless you prefer "to make China rich."

 

[Synthaholic]

That's an estimate of energy savings only after the cost of energy saving devices have been recovered by the homeowner, which can take five years or more. So, while the benefit to the environment and to those businesses is immediate the benefit to the homeowner will take a while.

That's not necessarily so. That's been the model, but they are changing these post-Trump Virus, and while we have all of these Trump-induced high interest rates to combat the Trump Inflation that he sprang on President Biden by completely fucking up the Covid response.

All that - especially and mostly the high interest rates - has just killed home solar installations, so they have had to adapt, and these lease or long-term payment plans are being modified.

 

[Synthaholic]

I got a new washer, dryer and fridge this year and a new furnace and already my electric useage has gone down 25%, and my gas useage went down 10%.

If I had new windows, my heating bill would be cut in half.

That’s an immediate household saving cash saving equivalent to one weeks groceries every month. And that’s groceries at TODAYS prices.

With the price of electricity and gas going up, the the dollar value of the savings only increases with time.

My city will pay 90% of attic insulation, and has generous energy saving rebates. I am also looking at new windows. Mine are so old they are useless for energy savings.

 

[Synthaholic]

What will that do to the cost of those vehicles?

I don't know, but you have to pay people a living wage.

 

[Synthaholic]

LOL!!!​

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Loaded Up on Stocks: 6 Companies She Just Bought​

Lastly, Greene chose to power her portfolio with NextEra Energy, a renewable energy powerhouse that performed exceptionally well in the first half of 2024. And while the company's future isn't guaranteed, a look at the company's past suggests that it has a history of growth — a trend that it can certainly extend in the future. Over the past 20 years, for example, NextEra Energy has achieved compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) of 9% and 8% for adjusted EPS and operating cash flow, respectively. During the same period, the company maintained focus on rewarding shareholders, hiking its dividend at a 10% CAGR.

 

[HikerGuy83]

It's coming quicker than people think. The solutions are there.

Europe is turning it's back on it.

They've figured out what a sham it is.

 

[Grumblenuts]

How Europe’s Solar Industry Can Be Saved

A domestic manufacturing sector will enhance the EU’s long-term energy security.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[Woodznutz]

My city will pay 90% of attic insulation, and has generous energy saving rebates. I am also looking at new windows. Mine are so old they are useless for energy savings.

Because heat rises attic insulation is the most important energy upgrade, and the least expensive.

 

[Synthaholic]

Europe is turning it's back on it.

They've figured out what a sham it is.

Bullshit, like everything from you.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Bullshit, like everything from you.

GFY

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/06/europe-britain-carbon-cost/

 

[HikerGuy83]

Bullshit, like everything from you.

And I'd have to say, that basically fits you.

You start a lot of threads and post a lot of polemic that is total crap.

 

[Woodznutz]

That's not necessarily so. That's been the model, but they are changing these post-Trump Virus, and while we have all of these Trump-induced high interest rates to combat the Trump Inflation that he sprang on President Biden by completely fucking up the Covid response.

If I remember correctly Trump didn't want to shut down the country but was overridden by Fauci and others. As it happened almost none of the measures taken were successful in limiting the spread of Covid.

 

[Synthaholic]

GFY

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/06/europe-britain-carbon-cost/

First of all, it's from summer, 2023.

Second, you should read your own links:


As the U.K. transitions away from fossil fuels — toward wind, solar and nuclear power, which it is doing at pace — it will still need oil and gas for decades to come.

So why buy foreign oil, asks Sunak, who says he is still committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. To balance out his oil-and-gas play, he also announced billion-dollar bets on carbon capture technology.

 

[elektra]

Maxeon Solar is a leading innovator in solar panels. They were part of SunPower, but they separated into two companies. Maxeon is still the supplier of panels for SunPower solar installations.

www.maxeon.com

Sunpower is bankrupt. Another solar failure

 

[elektra]

It's coming quicker than people think. The solutions are there.

Yet Solar is bankrupt

 

[elektra]

It's coming quicker than people think. The solutions are there.

Right, at night and rainy days this airport runs off fossil fuel power.

It is a lie that they opetate on solar

 

[Synthaholic]

How Exxon chases billions in US subsidies for a ‘climate solution’ that helps it drill more oil​

Subsidies.

 

[elektra]

How Exxon chases billions in US subsidies for a ‘climate solution’ that helps it drill more oil​

Subsidies.

Yes, Exxon mobile was forced to hire a climate czar who is now pursuing subsidies the government had already authorized.

Before, exxon was not subsidized, so the lie now becomes fact, democrats fixed another problem