3. I don't get how wind and solar cost more than coal or nat gas....
For wind and solar, it is a ONE TIME payment for capital equipment. For coal and nat gas, you have to constantly buy fuel and equipment upkeep is much more expensive. A wind turbine can last for decades (with only minimal technician monitoring and upkeep). What kind of company doesn't write their capital equipment off on their taxes? Wind and solar should be the cheapest energy sources out there... but then again, we haven't lived in reality the past eight years so why start now...
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