Great article in the South Dakota Magazine. The reason an article like this could be published is because its readership is small and it comes under the radar. But it is factual. Some of the high cost of solar and wind is due to the fact that they are unstable and have to have a fossil fueled supply on standby. Some of these power plants use 90% of fuel just idling.

The cost of solar power has come down a lot since 2010, from being more expensive than wind to being cheaper than coal.

Stupid YA. I had to make 3 attempts to post this answer. They should go back to the Green format software.





You can purchase a pallet of solar panels that produces 5900 watts for $5428. That is $920 per kilowatt, about the cost of building coal fired power plants. And you don't have to buy or mine fuel.

http://www.wholesalesolar.com/

And when I tried your link I saw,

"This link is not authorized by Yahoo.

"If you would like to continue to this link's intended destination at your own risk, click here."

Needless to say, I can find out all I need to know without puting my computer at risk. I guess that comes from not being a denier.

"Construction costs, as of 2004, run to US$1,300 per kilowatt"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil-fuel...

A more up to date figure would be nice, but I doubt that construction costs of coal fired power plants have come down.

Do you factor pollution, discease and number of dead soldiers to protect oil supply?

Coal is about dead, first with natural gas, the with renewables.

Not a very good return on investment for Taxpayers....in my humble opinion.

idk

I found this article

http://southdakotamagazine.com/index.php

in it, it says Quote

but the subsidies for renewables ballooned. Here are the numbers for 2010:

For solar power, they were $775.64 per megawatt hour, for wind $56.29, for nuclear $3.14, for hydroelectric power $0.82, for coal $0.64 and for natural gas and petroleum liquids $0.64.