Submitted by InterestedReader on December 6, 2007 - 10:00am.
The biggest problem facing alternative energy advocates is of their own making - a severe lack of reality in
their arguments, leading to extreme credibility problems. Everyone older than five or six knows that wind and PV sucks. It's exorbitantly expensive,
unreliable, pitifully insignificant, and gas guzzling govt subsidies that should be directed to viable alternative ebnergy technologies, like dispatchable solar thermal and dispatchable wave, nuclear and geothermal.
Finally, a dose of much needed reality
The biggest problem facing alternative energy advocates is of their own making - a severe lack of reality in
their arguments, leading to extreme credibility problems. Everyone older than five or six knows that wind and PV sucks. It's exorbitantly expensive,
unreliable, pitifully insignificant, and gas guzzling govt subsidies that should be directed to viable alternative ebnergy technologies, like dispatchable solar thermal and dispatchable wave, nuclear and geothermal.