If there’s any stoppage to the above, it’s only because of upgrades. For example, solar panel companies are slowing down (and eventually stopping altogether) production of single crystal panels in lieu of poly-crystalline since they are able to produce 10x or more per panel over single-crystal (which are actually more efficient in the long-run). As for Electric cars, the Tesla roadster has a multi-year waiting list just to own one while the Zap is making strides for more affordable cars for middle-income families.
we all are, the cost is more than the consumer can stand, except for nuclear, which is a global environmental problem.
The technologies have not become ‘main-stream’ enough for the general market.
There are air conditioners available that are 2X or more efficient than the 13 seer unit sold by government mandate, but new houses aren’t buying them because they would rather have a pool, or a deck.
Watch the movie Who Killed the Electric Car. It explains how consumers, big business, and the governemt are reluctant to allow such technology to be massively empolyed.
Big business and oil tycoons. If you owned BP or Shell would you want someone to use an electric car? Install solar panels? Buy a windmill? Most politicians are owned by big business one way or another.
I **** to sound like a revolutionary but only we the people can ultimately change things.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
If there’s any stoppage to the above, it’s only because of upgrades. For example, solar panel companies are slowing down (and eventually stopping altogether) production of single crystal panels in lieu of poly-crystalline since they are able to produce 10x or more per panel over single-crystal (which are actually more efficient in the long-run). As for Electric cars, the Tesla roadster has a multi-year waiting list just to own one while the Zap is making strides for more affordable cars for middle-income families.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am
we all are, the cost is more than the consumer can stand, except for nuclear, which is a global environmental problem.
The technologies have not become ‘main-stream’ enough for the general market.
There are air conditioners available that are 2X or more efficient than the 13 seer unit sold by government mandate, but new houses aren’t buying them because they would rather have a pool, or a deck.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:57 am
Watch the movie Who Killed the Electric Car. It explains how consumers, big business, and the governemt are reluctant to allow such technology to be massively empolyed.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
The consumer… they demand the cheapest energy possible, and in the case of nuclear, they demand it to be extremely safe.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Big business and oil tycoons. If you owned BP or Shell would you want someone to use an electric car? Install solar panels? Buy a windmill? Most politicians are owned by big business one way or another.
I **** to sound like a revolutionary but only we the people can ultimately change things.