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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHY CHOOSE RENEWABLES?
(An excerpt from Solar Energy International)
Why Use Solar?
It's better for the Environment !
A one kilowatt (10-100
watt panels) PV system*
Each month!
•prevents
150 lbs. of coal from being mined
•prevents
300 lbs. of CO2 from entering the atmosphere
•keeps
105 gallons of water from being consumed
•keeps
NO and SO2 from being released into the environment
*A system that produces 150 kWh per month
(The average American home use about 350-500 kWh per month)
Why Use Wind Power?
It's better for the Environment !
Using 100 kWh of wind power each month is equivalent to:
•planting a half acre of
trees
•not
driving 2,400 miles
Are Renewables
Cost Effective?
Putting photovoltaics on a grid-tied home is not cost effective.
Here's an excerpt from Home
Power Magazine, written by Randy Udall, explaining why we have
to move past the "Cost Effective" argument for renewables:
"Building 110 nuclear power plants before figuring out what
to do with the waste is cost effective. Drowning the Columbia river
and its priceless salmon runs is cost effective. Spending $50 billion
a year to defend the Persian Gulf oil fields is prudent. Strip mining
pays nice dividends: Wyoming coal is literally cheaper than dirt.
Chernobyl was a superb investment. Acid rain, ozone depletion .
. . many happy returns. . .
Conventional energy economics is a value system masquerading as
mathematics. At its heart is one key assumption: the future is worthless
and the environment doesn't matter. . .
For 80 years, our culture has had cheap power on a pedestal. In
most contexts, cheap means "shoddy" or "second-rate."
The cheap power paradigm is bankrupt. It's a fraud. Pathetic. Close
to criminal.
"If you value the future
or the environment, PV is cost effective. If you don't, it isn't.
It's that simple."
Click
here to check out what renewable incentives your state is offering.
Click
here for an excellent and very informative article by Andy Kerr
on Renewables financial rate of return, entitled "DOING WELL,
WHILE DOING GOOD"
Click
for the Midwest Renewable Energy website.
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