Value For Solar System.

[Elliott]

I truly can't understand the US's energy policy. Huge subsidies for battery cars (that uses electricity from dirty coal plants), ethanol (less energy generated than it takes to produce and what sense does it make to grow food and make it into gasoline?), and solar (uncompetitive production), while natural gas is plentiful and cheap, and 40% cleaner than gasoline. Its like there is this whor_eish relationship between government subsidies and campaign contributions and no one is willing to point fingers.

More and more fleet trucks and eventually 18-wheelers will be running off LNG. Its half the cost of diesel. Let the market figure it out and get out of the way.

 

[Meandering]

I have looked at 3 houses with PV panels in the past week, all in town and selling back to the utility. They are saving the $150-$200 per month they use, plus they are getting checks for $250 per month, so the gross income is about $400 per month. That is a car payment.

Okay,

You might have something here.

Fill up grandma's roof and yard with solar panels and let the electric company subsidize her social security and medicare.




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[KD247]

...Huge subsidies for battery cars (that uses electricity from dirty coal plants), ethanol (less energy generated than it takes to produce and what sense does it make to grow food and make it into gasoline?), and solar (uncompetitive production), while natural gas is plentiful and cheap, and 40% cleaner than gasoline. ...

Spent a couple of hours at a dinner party talking about just this, with a friend's dad who is an engineering professor in Pennsylvania. He is currently doing consulting work for a natural gas company, trying to find ways to increase supply. Problem is, we have way more than we need at the moment and nobody seems to be moving off the starting blocks towards incorporating it's use into our daily lives. LNG cars are less expensive to build, very inexpensive to run, last forever and require little maintenance.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

CNG is cheaper but you cannot get as much fuel in it.
LNG would be the fuel of choice for a truck... otherwise they have to stop and fill up too often and it is fairly slow fill ups. Propane was that way and it was lower pressure than either of the other. Propane rigs will run 10,000 miles between oil changes, won't ping, and idled very smooth. There is absolutely no reason why we cannot create the necessary infrastructure to use nat gas for cars.

 

[GCJim]

I believe all of you have forgotten to account for the effect on solar energy installations of those nasty sunspots and solar storms, and their ability to fry the
grid.

(.......damn.....I wish I would have read this thread a couple of weeks ago, BEFORE I accepted the assignmenmt for a house with........guess what?..........a soup-to-nuts solar energy installation...........%$@*&^*!!!!!!

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Laser beams in my dreams ...can't get off...can't get on...laser beams like a sawed off dream... Chicken train, Ozark Mtn. Daredevils.