(01-07-2018 11:05 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 10:51 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  Fossil fuels are subsidized by the lack of pricing on carbon emissions. If the playing field were leveled, clean energy would be cheaper even with the cost of storage solutions.

Fossil fuels are subsidized because they are better, therefore the powers that be want to make them more economical. At any pricing point, fossil fuels are going to work better than solar at night or wind on a calm day. That's one big problem with alternatives, reliability. Another is infrastructure. We have windmills turning right now that the electricity isn't going anywhere because there are not transmission lines. And the NIMBY folks hope to keep it that way. Remember Ted "Blond in the Pond" Kennedy blocked an offshore wind farm because it messed up the view from his seaside mansion?

We need to get away from fossil fuels and onto alternatives. But we need viable alternatives before that can happen. And right now the alternatives aren't physically viable, without regard to whether they are economically viable.