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In between January 2001 and January 2007 the average price of gas increased from $1.50 per gallon to $2.40 per gallon. An increase of $0.90 per gallon in 6 years, or approximately $0.15 per year.
Clean energy at the time still had a great deal of hurdles, however with federal stimulus money and constantly increasing costs for fossil fuels the holy grail of expense "parity" appeared obtainable. A former co-worker and I started blogging about it, using news event talents refined over decades to debut the most recent technologies, studies and advancements.
Another question, if I may, what took place to all those killer typhoons they forecasted for 2006 and every year thereafter? If they were to be brought on by international warming, does this mean there is none? Oh, please don't disenchant me by stating the 'experts' saw the devastation of 2005, and used that as a huge scare technique to push their program. Please!
The plants are super costly to develop, pushing the cost per kilowatt of electrical power partially above that of gas and coal. According to an MIT study, "The Future of Nuclear Power," that's about 8.4 cents per kWh compared to 6.5 for gas and 6.2 for coal.
Manufacturing development in the past years have actually finally reduced the cost of photovoltaic panels to the point that a 30% effectiveness panel can spend for the cost of production and setup over the first 6 years of its life. But even with these advances, the expense of acquiring and installing photovoltaic panels can be quite costly. Luckily, there are other choices for those who wish to go solar with extremely little launch cost.
NASA landing engineer Adam Steltzner and his crew at the Jet Propulsion Lab took a distinct method with the landing of the Mars rover Interest. They utilized a sky crane TV show news principle to decrease the research vehicle to the surface area of the Red World. Upon landing, the crane portion of the lander blitzed off and crash landed, leaving the rover undamaged.
Sounds familiar. The gold this time around is the complimentary energy around us on an everyday basis. There's adequate gold in them thar hills, I indicate solar energy originating from the center of our system to provide sufficient energy the world might consume. We simply have to discover the means to collect that energy without breaking the bank and do it cheaper than we can by either digging coal out of the ground or sucking and processing petroleum.
I hope not. Tidy energy deserves attention. The alternative is something out of Cormac McCarthy's "The Roadway," dark skies, no food and predatory human beings.