Putin: global warming is a fraud

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(11-30-2015, 05:43 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Is there any actual evidence to that or is it all "in theory"

I don't know on a large scale. On small scale, it can be. Businesses utilizing solar and wind power can cut their energy costs by a significant amount (how much that amount is varies as electric rates nationally are far from uniform).

The problem is the up front costs. For hydroelectric you've got tens of millions in a dam. It's higher for wind. According to the link below, we've subsidized $30 billion in wind energy research the last 35 years... and it still only produces about 4% of what we consume. That's a horrible ROI. Solar has a pretty decent return, but I have no idea what kind of investment it would take for significant industrial production.

http://www.newsweek.com/whats-true-cost-wind-power-321480



We should keep exploring clean energy, but we also need to do better than throwing money at everything and hoping one works out.