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"We need to adopt a more expensive and less reliable source of energy in order to remain a world leader... If we don't, someone else will use more expensive and less reliable sources of energy and become the world leader. I guess if you voted for Obama that kind of logic makes sense."If you follow the Republican mantra that clean energy is bad for you, I can see where that makes sense. The expense comes at the front end. In other words, it may cost more to build a wind farm because there aren't many of them built yet, then it does to build a coal-fired power plant, the technology for such already readily available off the shelf by the dozen. But the back end is much cheaper. It costs much less to maintain a wind farm due to the fact that they generate no pollution than it does to maintain a coal-fired plant. And the energy from a wind farm or a solar power plant is free, while the energy from a coal-fired plant is very expensive in terms of economic and environmental costs associated with mining it, transporting it, burning it, and waste disposal.
"We need to adopt a more expensive and less reliable source of energy in order to remain a world leader... If we don't, someone else will use more expensive and less reliable sources of energy and become the world leader. I guess if you voted for Obama that kind of logic makes sense."
If you follow the Republican mantra that clean energy is bad for you, I can see where that makes sense. The expense comes at the front end. In other words, it may cost more to build a wind farm because there aren't many of them built yet, then it does to build a coal-fired power plant, the technology for such already readily available off the shelf by the dozen. But the back end is much cheaper. It costs much less to maintain a wind farm due to the fact that they generate no pollution than it does to maintain a coal-fired plant. And the energy from a wind farm or a solar power plant is free, while the energy from a coal-fired plant is very expensive in terms of economic and environmental costs associated with mining it, transporting it, burning it, and waste disposal.
