Comments by carrville - Las Vegas Sun

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Posted on: Solar takes no shine to Nevada

Ask yourself, what is the cost of fossil fuel? Not the "price" of fossil fuel. The "cost" of fossil fuel. Add the cost of the Iraq War and protecting oil in the Mideast into the numerator and you get a very different cost per barrel making renewable energy look like quite a deal. Conservation and renewable energy deliver compelling "national security" advantages. That's why the Pentagon loves these technologies. It wants to avoid more wars in "Far-off-istan."

Unlike fossil fuels, solar delivers a fixed price advantage. If you purchase a solar panel today, the price will remain fixed for the life of the unit -- unlike the price of gasoline which goes up and up and up. It would be like buying gasoline in the 1990s when the price was about a $1 per gallon and paying that same price for the next 20 years. Solar delivers a fixed price. Fossil fuels do not. A decade from now, do you think the price of oil will be the same as it is today? Or higher?

Finally, you can still smoke cigarettes. But most of us don't. Why? Because we have learned that the cost is very high, though the posted price may not be. ...You can continue to pump fossil fuel greenhouse gases into the air, but the cost is very, very high.

Reality bats last. Make sure that reality is included in your numerator.

(Suggest removal) 10/27/08 at 10:48 p.m.

Posted on: Solar takes no shine to Nevada

Nevada will never be able to play in the big leagues if it can't get more innovative legislation like they have in California and Oregon.

There is no reason why Nevada shouldn't be the solar and wind model for the rest of the country. We have the resources. We just need to have the leadership.

The train's leaving the station and we need to get on it.

"He that doesn't take risks, doesn't drink champagne."

(Suggest removal) 10/27/08 at 11:39 a.m.