Solar Getting So Cheap It's "Astonishing"

KEN KORCZAK

It increasingly looks like the Solar Age is beginning and our long relationship with fossil fuels may finally be coming to an end.

What's really going to make it happen is money.

A lot of people like the idea of an energy that doesn't create greenhouse gases, acid rain, smog and all the rest -- but the absolutely only thing that will drive large scale change among the public is cost.

If it means more money will stay in their pockets, people will adopt solar on a large scale.

That now seems to be happening. The cost of solar energy is plummeting to rapidly, energy and financial analysts can only on with amazement.

See my article here, and my latest attempt to "shame" my local power cooperative which is still addicted to its coal industry masters.

GOING SOLAR -- GOING CHEAPER

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"Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics"

KEN KORCZAK:

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Let's tell foreign sources of crude to keep their oil and we'll "grow" or own. They said Minnesota could be the "Saudi Arabia of Ethanol." That was a couple of decades ago. Today, 40 percent of the nation's corn crop is being shipped to ethanol plant to make fuel for our cars.

How's it working out? Is there less pollution? Are we importing less oil? Have we "grown" our way out of the "energy crisis" that hit us like an oily slap in the face during the Carter Administration? What's the price of gas at the pump?

What's happened to the price of food? Is it true that a family of four has seen a $2,000 increase in its food budget in 2012 -- and can that be pinned on the corn-ethanol industry?

These are some of the issues I explore today in my article here:

THE TRUTH ABOUT FUEL AND FOOD

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Local electric co-ops are shills for the coal industry: Change is a must.

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I'm in a constant state of criticism of my local source of electricity, which is a local power co-op here in northern Minnesota. My beef? They get most of their energy from coal. But worse that that, they actively lobby against and refuse to consider adding clean solar energy to their power supply mix.

When the Minnesota legislature recently enacted a tiny 1.5% solar energy mandate for all utilities in the state, rural electric cooperatives balked, lobbied for an exemption, and got one. It's an outrage. Pollution from coal is warming the planet, and also depositing mercury into Minnesota lakes and showing up in our fish -- and that's just for starters.

These guys need to change -- period. See my story:

DEATH BY COAL

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How to Make a bad idea worse -- the ethanol industry scam is bleeding taxpayers dry while damaging the environment

KEN KORCZAK:

Read my latest article on the truly terrible things that are going on in the energy industry -- another new start-up plans to burn coal to make ethanol. It's a truly a deplorable idea -- to think that corn ethanol was once considered (and still is in some circles) a "green energy" idea. It's ridiculous. See my story here:

THE ETHANOL SCAM

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