NG is, like every other fossil fuel, a finite product. NG is also expensive to route to everyones home. CNG is also expensive to package and move and like propane has some downsides iwth transport and storage.
Coal, 'nuff said. I wish it were cleaner, more efficient, but it's not. Same for "biomass" on the industrial level. We have a biomass plant on Ft Drum near here. It's an answer to a political issue.
Oil. Yeah, well we've all seen the rise and fall and the background of the players and politicians making their zillions is always going to put the little guy at a disadvantage. Same for NG, CNG, Propane and even coal.
Hydro. Why we aren't building dams, small ones at that, on every body of moving water is beyond me. The "No dams" industry is almost as powerful as the no nukes/coal industry. Small hyro, tidal generators, etc. could account for a goodly amount of our power in the wetter parts of our nation. Why we aren't doing this is a real good question IMO.
Modern nuclear plants. They don't have to be 1950's/60/s tech anymore. "The China Syndrome" and some rather over blown hysteria (IMO) have basically turned an engineering issue into a political issue. As I understand the right kind of reactor can produce much, much smaller waste issues and produce a type of waste that can be used. Maybe I'm all wrong on this one, but as with global man made climate change there's so much rhetoric involved it's hard to find the real answers.
Wind, solar, geo thermal. The problem I see here is that we're trying to do "The One Big Plant" thing. We have huge wind farms here in nothern NY that are only profitable because of subsidies. We have some fairly large solar farms that only exist because of subsidies. IMO the answer isn't with the One Big Plant but with thousands of smaller plants/dams and household solar/wind and geo thermal if you have access. The One Big Plant takes care of the city, the smaller local/home level rigs do the outlying areas. I would conservatively venture the guess there must be 5,000 sites in northern NY alone the could be put to use with small hydro. Even on my farm here in the realtively flat lands I have a site that could generate useable amounts of power via hydro 3 seasons of the year and 4 in a wet year. Of course all this requires a paradigm change in energy usage. That's the biggest stumbling block IMO after gov't issues, assuming the money was there to do it.
If someone would like to have a discussion about this idea, I think it would be interesting.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 05:51:52 01/03/15.
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