http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2015/09/01/solar-industry-admits-green-energy-only-exists-thanks-to-government-subsidies/
For at least the last thirty years the alternative energy industry
has been claiming they are almost ready to be economically competitive
with fossil fuel. Wind, solar, geothermal, and others keep begging for
government subsidies to help them stay afloat until they can reach a
size at which economies of scale kicks in, price per kilowatt hour
drops, and then they can survive on their own. Now we are seeing this
has been a blatant grab for taxpayer dollars and the subsidies were more
about industry executives and shareholders getting rich than about
reaching a green industry future.
For the past few years the United States has received a veritable flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, dropping costs by 99 percent over 36 years. According to the industry itself, solar installations have increased by a factor of 60 since
just 2006 and for the first nine months of 2014 solar represented 32
percent of newly installed electric generating capacity.
It Was the same way back in the 60's and 70's green boom as well, amazing 40+ years and we've truly gone no where...
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