: Former Washington Redskins quarterback Sunny Jurgenson, now a sportscaster, often derides the so-called prevent defense by saying, “the prevent defense doesn’t.” Ditto for “sustainability.” It does not sustain. It spends resources that would much more likely go into market efficiency. It wastes public monies and costs jobs.
This is obvious when examining the economics of the environmentalists’ favorite “sustainable” or “renewable” energy sources, solar power and windmills. According to the Energy Information Administration’s 2011 summary, the total cost per megawatt-hour of an average of solar thermal and photovoltaic will exceed four times that of advanced combined-cycle natural gas in 2016. For combined onshore and offshore wind, the cost exceeds 2.5 times that of gas.
Spain has already demonstrated the “unsustainability” of “sustainable” distributed energy.
The government bought support there by paying everyone who placed a solar panel on his or her roof an exorbitant amount. According to Gabriel Calzada, of Spain’s King Juan Carlos University, each “green job” that was created cost approximately $800,000 per year. Soon the solar subsidies began to gnaw away at Spain’s economy, and they were drastically reduced. Spain’s unemployment now stands at 21 percent, and there is a chance the government will default on its sovereign debt. Throwing money at solar energy and windmills has real costs and economic consequences that reverberate worldwide.
People may tell pollsters they favor “sustainable” projects, but they don’t buy them. Fewer than 7,000 private individuals have purchased the Chevrolet Volt, despite state and federal subsidies that approach $10,000 per car and that are transferred to the purchaser. All “sustainability” does is reward inefficiency and promote development of politically correct technologies people do not want. As the people of Spain and the stockholders of General Motors (that would be you, reader) know, sustainable development isn’t.
: Former Washington Redskins quarterback Sunny Jurgenson, now a sportscaster, often derides the so-called prevent defense by saying, “the prevent defense doesn’t.” Ditto for “sustainability.” It does not sustain. It spends resources that would much more likely go into market efficiency. It wastes public monies and costs jobs.This is obvious when examining the economics of the environmentalists’ favorite “sustainable” or “renewable” energy sources, solar power and windmills. According to the Energy Information Administration’s 2011 summary, the total cost per megawatt-hour of an average of solar thermal and photovoltaic will exceed four times that of advanced combined-cycle natural gas in 2016. For combined onshore and offshore wind, the cost exceeds 2.5 times that of gas.Spain has already demonstrated the “unsustainability” of “sustainable” distributed energy.The government bought support there by paying everyone who placed a solar panel on his or her roof an exorbitant amount. According to Gabriel Calzada, of Spain’s King Juan Carlos University, each “green job” that was created cost approximately $800,000 per year. Soon the solar subsidies began to gnaw away at Spain’s economy, and they were drastically reduced. Spain’s unemployment now stands at 21 percent, and there is a chance the government will default on its sovereign debt. Throwing money at solar energy and windmills has real costs and economic consequences that reverberate worldwide.People may tell pollsters they favor “sustainable” projects, but they don’t buy them. Fewer than 7,000 private individuals have purchased the Chevrolet Volt, despite state and federal subsidies that approach $10,000 per car and that are transferred to the purchaser. All “sustainability” does is reward inefficiency and promote development of politically correct technologies people do not want. As the people of Spain and the stockholders of General Motors (that would be you, reader) know, sustainable development isn’t.
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