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And let’s not forget when a Danish Parliamentarian dunked on Trump over wind energy, pointing out how Denmark suffers fewer blackouts than the US despite relying on entirely on windmills.
I’unno, green energy seems pretty viable.
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Prices per megawatt hour from electricity for coal-fired power plants range from a low of $60 to a high of $143, according to Lazard, a financial advisory firm that publishes annual estimates of the total cost of producing electricity. This is the levelized cost, which includes the cost to build, operate, fuel and maintain a power plant.Wind is significantly cheaper: Unsubsidized, levelized prices per megawatt hour of electricity from wind range from $29 to $56, according to Lazard’s most recent figures. In contrast, a decade ago, wind costs topped out at $70 per megawatt hour, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s most recent report on the wind technologies market.For solar electricity, unsubsidized, levelized prices range from $40 to $46, according to Lazard figures. In 2010, the average was closer to $120 per megawatt hour, said Mark Bolinger, a research scientist with the electric markets and policy group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Berkeley Lab conducts scientific research on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy.For reference, the average U.S. home uses about 10 megawatt hours of electricity each year.
Hypothetically, if the US would switch to 100% wind energy we’d need to devote only 0.01% of our land to windmills to meet our energy needs. |
And let’s not forget when a Danish Parliamentarian dunked on Trump over wind energy, pointing out how Denmark suffers fewer blackouts than the US despite relying on entirely on windmills.
There’s currently less than 50,000 US jobs in the coal industry. The wind energy industry alone currently supports about the same, but is expected to support up to 600,000 by 2050. |
I’unno, green energy seems pretty viable.