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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (19089)	12/28/2007 12:20:35 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

For a large swath of the Southwestern USA, solar is already or will be within the next couple of years, cheaper than what they are paying the utility. You don't seem to understand the difference between "base" and "supplemental" power. The utility MUST build enough "base" power plants to supply all the power the area needs, or else have a contract to get it from somebody else with base power. They CANNOT rely on solar or windmills for base power. They both can be used to supplement base power when they are available, and the utility can shut down or reduce usage of base while using the supplemental. Both Solar and Wind cannot be depended on 100% of the time. So as energy usage grows, more base plants of some kind MUST be built. No matter how efficient Solar gets.