Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday

Re:Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s elec... by Intermernet on Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:03AM (#9869795)

The current price of fossil fuels is not sustainable, and has wildly fluctuated over the last decade. It's not really a metric that can be used for long term planning, except to say that fossil fuels are finite (in the "human scale" of time. Everything is finite if you want to get pedantic.), and therefore the cost will eventually go up if we keep relying on them.

The varying monetary cost of fossil fuels also causes huge destabilization of the world economy (See 1973 OPEC crisis etc). It would make the global economy much more stable if we could eliminate such an unpredictable variable.

Also, mathematically, something that is "renewable" will, given time, obviously provide a better ROI than something that isn't. The figure of 20 years may not be accurate, but fossil fuels will never pay back. Once used, they're practically gone for good.

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Re:Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s elec... by hueving on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:59AM (#9882981)

>Also, mathematically, something that is "renewable" will, given time, obviously provide a better ROI than something that isn't.

Only on a global scale, but people don't act globally. The ROI for the actual entity buying the windmills will be worse if natural gas prices are almost nothing.

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