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Question of the Month: Which of the following do you think is the biggest barrier to moving to use more renewable energy sources?

dychen
dychen over 1 year ago

e14 Question of the Month

Consumers are making the move to renewable energy, however, there is still a lot of dependence on fossil fuels.  Take the poll and in the Comments section, let us know what you think can be done to make the shift to renewable energy easier.

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  • balajivan1995
    balajivan1995 over 1 year ago +3
    I like this question and the order the choices are presented, these are all the things that comes to my mind when it comes to adapting renewable energy sources. The main problem is ROI made on the purchase…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 1 year ago +3
    It's all these things and more. We've got over 100 years of investment in the existing infrastructure - it's a huge task to change it all and it just can't happen overnight. There hasn't been anything…
  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago +3
    Click-bait articles from know-nothing, investigating-nothing people. Mainstream media articles with poor and lazy journalism doing the same thing. Lack of willingness to find out things for oneself. Regurgitating…
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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago

    Click-bait articles from know-nothing, investigating-nothing people.  Mainstream media articles with poor and lazy journalism doing the same thing.  Lack of willingness to find out things for oneself. Regurgitating nonsense from the 'expert down the pub'.  

    I rather suspect the average man in the street doesn't think about any of the options in the poll.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew J

    Agree with that!

    I selected "lack of political will" in the end because that's probably the area that could influence changes most significantly, but who knows : (

    Also semi-relevant, there was a period where a firm sat on patents for electronic ballasts for a decade because they wanted to ship their old transformers.. it cost $100bn in wasted energy costs just for US residential consumers. Selfishness basically.. think it's present everywhere, but especially in politics, and in backward orgs.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew J

    Agree with that!

    I selected "lack of political will" in the end because that's probably the area that could influence changes most significantly, but who knows : (

    Also semi-relevant, there was a period where a firm sat on patents for electronic ballasts for a decade because they wanted to ship their old transformers.. it cost $100bn in wasted energy costs just for US residential consumers. Selfishness basically.. think it's present everywhere, but especially in politics, and in backward orgs.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

    There was another patent case in relation to automotive NiMH batteries that prevented their use in EVs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

    That’s crazy but in some ways not surprising.  A short election cycle coupled with decade-long plus projects means no politician has any incentive.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz
    shabaz said:
    "lack of political will"

    I like to translate that into "lack of everyone's will" in most countries.

    We all have political parties that want to move faster. We don't vote them into power. (Because we know it 'll hurt?)

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  • DAB
    DAB over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

    Politicians follow votes and money.

    They pander to the renewable crowd to get easy votes.

    The deal with the energy companies because they have money.

    When the system breaks like it did in Texas, they always find someone else to blame.

    Face it, if you had their job, you would do the same.

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