Would Energy go down if.....?

Question

Would Energy go down if we used more renewable energy? Please put a link if you can thanks!

Answer 1

Prices will go down when interest rates come up.

Answer 2

Energy can't really go down or up?

Energy use would not go down, it would just come from another source.

Answer 3

Energy prices (Oil prices) went down more in one day, than any previous 15-20 years, when something as simple as the President getting rid of the offshore drilling ban from the Executive branch.

Answer 4

Energy....prices?

Well, in the long term, perhaps. However, the energy used in builing new wind / solar / hydro plants would be fossil based (deisel and gasoline used for contructions machines, and all).

Also, there are geographical limitations for where you can build reusable power plants (can't have geothermal without an accessable lava flow, a hydro plant without a river valley to dam, etc.) It's not possible to build enough renewable power plants to power every city in America.

Even then, the price for the energy would not necessarily drop (after all, there still is a demand and a supply of electricity).

Answer 5

The cost of operating renewable energy power is lower than conventional but there is a huge upfront cost.  You have to buy the entire photo cell before you get one kw of electricity.  While there are plenty of windy and sunny places in the US, southwestern Ohio is not one of them.  The cost of energy would need to increase nearly four fold to make solar competitive in my region and I would still need to be hooked up to the grid for those cloudy winter days.  Solar could augment my peak demand but I would still be paying $0.30 per kWh and only helping the power company.

Answer 6

Supply and demand is the easiest explanation of price fluctuation.

Technically, all energy is renewable since we reuse the same elements and compounds on earth.

If we found an alternative to oil and gas for cars it would be very expensive until the infrastructure is put into place and cheaper methods of extraction are found.  That can take decades, but I'm sure we'll find alternatives that work eventually.  A lot of corporations are looking.

Until then, the only way to make energy costs go down is to get more of what we need domestically so we don't have to pay our enemies for necessities like oil.

In other words, if the democrats in congress ever let us drill domestically, the prices will come down.  I doubt they will until we really get mad at them. 80% of the country has said to drill and millions have signed petitions, but they ignore us.  In fact, they are planning to increase taxes on every gallon of gas.  That should raise it another 10 or 15 cents a gallon.

Thank you Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Kennedy and the other dems who only care about their rich supporters.  They just don't care about the poor and middle class.

Answer 7

Here is the simplest explanation I can give you.

People talk about renewable resources all the time. The best alternatives for powering our houses are solar, wind, tide and geothermal. Since the investment for those types of equipment is still minimal. The best thing we can do is build nuclear power plants. The nuclear waste can be stored 5 miles below ground and will not affect anyone that way.

For automotive uses, you will here a lot of people talk about biofuels. Biofuels are a great idea, but the idea is flawed. First of all you are taking food crops away from the mqarket and that drives up food prices. Thats a bad idea!!

Second, the idea behind biofuels is that the crbon can be offset by planting more vegitation. Sadly, growers want to grow the crops for the fuel, but have yet to start growing anything that will offset the carbon that biofuels pump into the air. Another thing about biofuels. Most of them produce more CO2 than regular gasoline when they are burned.

The easiest solutions for the short term (meaning the next 50 years or so) would be to build 30 or so nuclear power plants and to build 3 or 4 coal to liquid fuel plants. The fuel produced from coal can be run in all existing vehicles and costs about $0.50 per gallon to make versus the $3.25 per gallon for gasoline.