What Does Big Solar Want? What Doesn't It Want? | Marc Gunther on …

All this, of course, on top of either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases and put a price on carbon emissions– — a policy that makes good sense, because it will capture the external costs of burning fossil fuels. … More to the point, why should the government favor solar over wind energy , or geothermal power , or low-carbon electricity from nuclear (gasp!) or from kites or from retrofitting buildings and homes to make them more efficient?

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What does solar want? Lots. « Marc Gunther

All this, of course, on top of either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases and put a price on carbon emissions–—a policy that makes good sense, because it will capture the external costs of burning fossil fuels. … More to the point, why should the government favor solar over wind energy , or geothermal power , or low-carbon electricity from nuclear (gasp!) or from kites or from retrofitting buildings and homes to make them more efficient

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What does solar want? Lots. | Marc Gunther

All this, of course, on top of either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases and put a price on carbon emissions–—a policy that makes good sense, because it will capture the external costs of burning fossil fuels.

Read the rest »