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Yes, Texas can really be the winner in the US about green economy because this state has the largest wind and solar resources !
Texas is really good for wind power, but for solar the state is bad, but apparently Texas understood that.
Why is solar bad here?
Texas has plenty of sunshine year round.
Even here in small town Tyler we are starting to utilize solar energy. I've seen several new stop lights around town just within the past few months with solar panels affixed onto them.
I'm sorry, but those windmills are hideous. They destroy the landscape. Is there such a thing as "visual pollution"? I'm sorry. I don't want to look at them. It seems that wind farms often give people a severe case of "not in my backyard!"
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Why is solar bad here?
Texas has plenty of sunshine year round.
Even here in small town Tyler we are starting to utilize solar energy. I've seen several new stop lights around town just within the past few months with solar panels affixed onto them.
It's bad because Texas has great potential but it never utilized it before. But it's starting to understand that and do something about it to enhance the Solar Energy in the state.
Somewhere I read that there is a big solar energy push in Saudi Arabia! I guess it's more profitable to export s few million more barrels than to use it domestically, and there is probably plenty of sunlight. But then, in the U.S. any alternative electricity source is most likely to cut the use of domestically produced coal. Then it can be exported to countries that have carbon credits.
Nuclear is the most safe, clean & currently economical source of electricty. The spent Uranium can be recycled and now produces very little waste which is containable. There are now small package nuclear power plants which require little maintenance and can power a small city.
Why aren't we building new nuclear power plants?
Coal, Oil, Wind, Natural Gas and those who stand to profit the most, coupled with unsubstantiated fear.
Wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric (the latter where we get a majority of our power already) are the best for the Northwest. On the east side of the Cascades we get more sun and our wind energy potential is among the best in the entire country in the Columbia Gorge and certain mountain ranges on the east side.
Nuclear is a bad option for the Northwest, because it is such a geologically active area. Earthquakes + nuclear power plants = not a happy ending.
I was wrong to logically think that Pittsburgh wasn't a good candidate for using solar and wind. An hour-long program the other night was all about Pgh. being an ideal location for such use. I only caught tidbits because it was so boring... making your house solar could cost $300,000, but, the govt. will give you a 30% credit for doing it. Your state might also participate.
My aunt lived on Three Mile Island when that nuclear meltdown occured. She's alright, but glows in the dark.
Use the resources of the area your in, why ship coal hundreds or thousands of miles away to an area that the sun or wind would better serve as an energy provider. The southwest doesn’t need coal but should have solar power, and the areas that wind is available most of the time should use that energy source.
Reducing and moving off of carbon fuels for energy is only logical if we don’t want to continue to affect the planet in a negative way. Renewable sources of wind, water and solar are clean energies that improve our lives.
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