GREAT comment left on the Washington Post article: "While mentioning the limitations of our existing power grid, the article overlooks other potential downsides to exporting power, which include the fact that transmission lines are expensive, wasteful, and necessarily deprive land and homeowners of private property quite against their will. Wherever possible, the best place to produce solar or wind energy is in the immediate vicinity of the user. Too often, those inhabiting major urban centers and "requiring" electricity foist the burden off on less populated, outlying areas that have less political clout. As a result, enormous sums of money are spent unnecessarily to acquire property and build transmission systems. On top of this, electricity is lost during the process of transmission, effectively raising the economic and environmental costs to all. Consider the rural family removed from their home or farm so that the neon light advertising Budweiser may remain lit 300 miles away. Perhaps it would be appropriate to take a serious look at energy conservation, and then, when a locality decides that it has exercised every preferable option, then it should develop its own local resources, first. Perhaps the alternative of solar panels on Beverly Hills mansions and windmills along the Massachusetts coast provide incentive to reconsider ones "needs". washingtonpost/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/15/these-maps-show-the-best-places-to-put-solar-and-wind-power-its-not-where-you-think/
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:40:23 +0000
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