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In reply to the discussion: Onshore Wind electricity is cheaper than natural gas, nuclear and coal power. [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)18. Solar panels over parking lots for electric vehicles is a good idea.
Free shade and "fuel" for employee and customer vehicles, all in one.
It's already reality in some places. My own community has a few solar parking lots.
Nobody should have to buy fuel to drive to work or go out shopping.
I'd personally prefer a world where legs either natural or electrically powered artificial were the dominant form of transportation. Nevertheless, electric scooters, motorcycles, and automobiles are still much preferable to the stinky fossil fueled machines most of us now drive.
Example of electric legs:
Similar machines have also been built as exo-skeletons for people suffering paralysis.
Ordinary walking (even for those whose natural legs don't work or are lost), solar powered rail and bus and doorstep self driving car transportation, and very comfortable high technology sailing ships... these are my utopia.
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Onshore Wind electricity is cheaper than natural gas, nuclear and coal power. [View all]
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
OP
All seashores have heavy bird populations. I'm not real alarmist about bird danger at inland wind
NBachers
Nov 2014
#1
Far more animals are killed by fossil fuel extraction than will ever be killed by windmills. Just
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#3
You would have to agree its a better solution than coal, and "Mt Top Removal"!
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#4
Not really. Nobody ever factors in the cost of agile backup power or energy storage.
hunter
Nov 2014
#7
Actually, hydro backup has been proven to be a viable alternative to your suggestions:
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#8
It's amazing to me that we spent $500 each last year subsidizing fossil fuels an only $7
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#11
There's a profound forcing function taking place with electronic power systems.
True Blue Door
Nov 2014
#19
I think that's a fantastic option, providing power for vehicles while parked.
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#21