> If you have an electric car and charge it through a conventional electric source in the US, you are most likely powering it with coal. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of having an electric car? Sure, you may be reducing your need for oil, but you have increased the need for coal-fired power plants and put a strain on the grid. I have long advocated for a renewable source, such as solar or wind, to charge plug-in electric vehicles. Well, they are finally getting built!
> The news this week is all about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. Why do we have to keep drilling? Why can’t we see that renewables won’t cause this kind of environmental damage? I know, I know. It’s all about lobbies and money. But the more we demand oil, the more they will keep trying to bring it to us, no matter the cost, environmental, human and financial. How can you reduce demand?
> I take that back. Washington may have seen the light and is re-thinking renewables.
> I thought my house was pretty damn solar! I have passive solar, a solar greenhouse, and solar hot water. Not bad! And I have reduced my energy bills by about half (I also changed out some old windows and insulated my ceiling, so it’s not all attributed to solar….). These folks in Missouri have me beat – they have all that I have, but they also have solar PV.
