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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (392002)6/18/2008 10:55:52 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1577787
 
>> Like the oil subsidies?

Which oil subsidies are those? Please be specific.

>> Geo thermal is by far the most economical with wind in second place... and wind is subsidized. But neither of those get us off oil although they can contribute to the increased demand for electricity as we move to plug in hybrids and eventually electric cars.

Geothermal is a toy. When you're talking about half GW increments, you're not getting anywhere. Maybe one day, but you're talking many years into the future (2040, 2050, perhaps). When people talk about the "potential" for geothermal, they are really not taking into consideration that the ability to recover that potential is quite small.

And, of course, it is not renewable.

Wind, by comparison, is totally renewable and has a much greater potential for recovery.
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