Oil headed for 70 bucks s barrel. Here we go.
Wonder how long till the pump price reflects it. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/oil-soars-as-u-s-killing-of-iran-general-stirs-fear-of-conflict-1.1368724
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time2roll wrote:monkey44 wrote:Actually there is no need to expect rooftop solar to be the 100% solution. This is not metric electricity... solar power can flow through the existing grid just fine.
OK, how about those NY apartment buildings twenty-thirty stories, a hundred apartments, a hundred families. Put one solar complex over the entire roof, you might get enough power to feed electric to the top ONE floor or even TWO, or THREE, what do the other ninety families do?
Well, they bring in power from an external grid?? And that cost as much to build and maintain as any other power source. We do not have perpetual power production anywhere ... It costs use and maintenance fees, and soft labor, and engineers. That's not inexpensive, even if renewable and sustainable. Unless you individually grow your own groceries and create your own power, there will always be a cost equation.
Some local solar would reduce the need to improve the existing grid as power demand grows.
Yes solar does come at a cost and that cost is lower than coal.
A centralized or regional solar energy source will force the grids to inter-connect and will provide a natural redundant system that can by-pass and re-route problematic lines to get the supply where it's needed most and prevent massive blackouts.
