Get It Done: Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

1. Personally, I don't know you that well.
2. No.
3. You can tell me.
4. No.
5. There is no such thing as clean burning coal plant, but good luck with that.
6. I don't work for GE.

I'm not being an appeaser here. Just thorough. Those statements are correct. Wind turbine costs are all up front. All the work has to be done to build a wind farm before energy can be used.

But, it is equally true that energy from wind farms cost no more than fossil fuels. That's because once the wind farm is built there is relatively no cost to continue to gather and store energy. Next, the costs to the environment are much less. To be real, climate change from fossil fuels will cost people money to move farms and cities to more favorable locations, and those costs will be incalculable.

Solar energy costs are still higher than fossil fuels, but those costs will likely come down as better assembly processes are developed with mass production - in the way that computer chip prices came down with more computers. Solar energy development might even create a situation in which increased energy usage would actually decrease energy cost rates.

Thank you for bringing that question to light. You know, I sort of miss JJ.

...everything in your post I agree with, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that the global economic downturn is in gallop mode...that's a stark reality...massive unemployment , manufacturing going offshore to balance the books, and claw back revenue...we all need electricity to exist in a myriad of ways...that's a no brainer...and the technology and implementation of solar/wind needs to be economically viable...small steps into the future...and just another point...Govt' wastage is monumental, globally...unil we sort that out (groan)...money will continue to be swallowed up in economic mismanagement, instead of going towards what we all need into the future...namely, "a future"...have a great Xmas D-man...

We could decrease emissions by 40% globally just through sustainable agriculture. It doesn't require huge turbines alone to do this, just the will of people to do it if they really care. And just to add, renewable energy will be transitioned to faster when corporations that pollute are made accountable for it, as in the carbon tax passed in Australia. That will help to bring that energy to you which will in the longterm bring renewable energy into parity with fossil fuels (which I believe has already happened regarding solar) thus bringing down costs.

...when you get a chance, google, Alan Jones, and the situation down here regarding coal seam gas mining in our prime agricultural areas in Australia, eg, the Darling Downs and the Liverpool plains...one of the biggest food bowls in the world being raped by fraking, which, as you know requires deadly chemicals going into the soil, and leaking into aquifers...apparently, farmers by law, down here, only own what's on top of the ground, and not what's underneath...thereby giving State Govt's a licence to hand out permits to drill to every man and his dog...a farmer was arrested last month for blocking the access to a company onto his land to drill...it's all about greed, and revenue...foreign companies buying up prime agricultural land, only to turn it into something resembling a crater on the moon...

This is so spread out around the world now. People in South Africa are even fighting to keep fracking out of the Karoo, a place of such diversity that will be ruined should fracking be allowed in there. When did we cede our world to these evil people to be poisoned? There are no other words to describe them for what they knowingly do. Thanks for mentioning that, I'll check it out.

...just google "Alan Jones address to Press Club on CSG utube"...it's in 2 parts...

Hi eden49. I understand there are economic problems. Energy costs are part of those problems. I think it is like getting a root canal. Waiting longer isn't going to make the problem go away.

Hey, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, wish you the best. : )

Voted way ^^^
It's so good to see so many people confronting the status quo BS!

Thanks coolplanet.

Good evening, KB723, and welcome back.

A Good Evening to you as well, and many Thanks... Been a long week and I must rest, see you around and Best Wishes... =)