Reply #15: Solar energy is a free and boundless power source.

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All other forms of energy available to us are converted solar energy with many hazards and great expense involved in converting them again for our use. So why would intelligent people not decide to go right to the source itself, and skip all the environmental degradation?

We can't build a solar power plant that would replace a coal, oil or nuclear fired plant at this time because our government and our corporations have not spent the billions that they have developing the inferior sources. That's because there is no money in it for them. Once the plant is built, they cannot make more billions selling us fuel for it because it doesn't require any. Think about that...

But yet any person can run their own home on a combination of wind and solar power, and live as well as anyone with no power bill whatsoever, and many people around the world are doing it today. And there is no reason to believe that what works for one home cannot work for everyone's home. Yes, it's very expensive to set up an "alternative" system, but they work very well, and if our whole society got behind it, the costs would plummet below what we pay today. Because the source of the energy is free.

Free...