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renewable electrical generation technologies. | renewable electrical generation technologies. | ||
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Wind | ! | ||
Solar photovoltaic | ! align="center"| 2001 | ||
Solar thermal | ! align="center"| Potential future | ||
Large hydropower | |- | ||
Small hydropower | ! | ||
Geothermal | ! align="center"| energy cost | ||
Biomass | ! align="center"| energy cost | ||
Coal (comparison) | |- | ||
| Wind | |||
|align="right"| 4–8 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 3–10 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Solar photovoltaic | |||
|align="right"| 25–160 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 5–25 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Solar thermal | |||
|align="right"| 12–34 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 4–20 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Large hydropower | |||
|align="right"| 2–10 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 2–10 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Small hydropower | |||
|align="right"| 2–12 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 2–10 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Geothermal | |||
|align="right"| 2–10 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 1–8 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Biomass | |||
|align="right"| 3–12 ¢/kWh | |||
|align="right"| 4–10 ¢/kWh | |||
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| Coal (comparison) | |||
|align="right"| 4 ¢/kWh | |||
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WiMax broadband wireless costs about $10 per person to install, and is | WiMax broadband wireless costs about $10 per person to install, and is | ||
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have hopes that a network of citizens can do something about many of | have hopes that a network of citizens can do something about many of | ||
these issues, but it will take time. | these issues, but it will take time. | ||
[Added later: Use microfinance to put in the electricity and Internet as local businesses, and repay the costs by charging other local businesses a reasonable rate for using them.] | |||
What we are looking for here is some tens of trillions of dollars | What we are looking for here is some tens of trillions of dollars | ||
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is all of Us and all of Them, for any given values of Us and Them) get | is all of Us and all of Them, for any given values of Us and Them) get | ||
this right, it will improve education, politics, economics, and the | this right, it will improve education, politics, economics, and the | ||
arts of | arts of sustainability in a manner that we cannot well foresee. | ||
But it won't make anybody happy. Comfortable, certainly, for the great | But it won't make anybody happy. Comfortable, certainly, for the great | ||
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with what you have. Not resignation to having only that, but | with what you have. Not resignation to having only that, but | ||
willingness to work with it gladly to improve things further for the | willingness to work with it gladly to improve things further for the | ||
benefit of everybody else. Meaning that we get to tackle the | benefit of everybody else. Meaning that we get to tackle the '''hard''' | ||
problems next. | problems next. | ||