re: #176 Kosh’s Shadow

All the alternatives are more expensive than the actual cost of oil and coal, especially when the development costs are included. Maybe someday, some of them will be cheaper, especially as fossil fuels become scarcer and cost more to retrieve.

And the environmentalists would still stop alternatives, like the wind farm off Cape Cod. Ground-based solar takes a lot of space; space-based and even balloon solar (if that is practical; I wonder about the winds at altitude) requires some way to get the power to the ground.

Another thing they keep forgetting is that thigns like wind turbines, solar panels etc etc, all need to be manufactured. Which uses, ahem, energy! in the process.
But hey, facts like these are so easy to overlook …