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Helping people understand the power grid

…ments from the government. That certainly isn’t a free marketplace. Warren Buffett pointed that out when he said windmills “don’t make sense without the tax credit.” http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304831304579541782064848174?mg=reno64-wsj Regarding Spain’s experiment with green energy, it is irrefutable that they have rapidly moved away back towards a market, mugged as they were by economic realities. Nuclear is a good produce…

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What did the Cove Point protest on Monday Night Football have to do with nuclear energy production in Virginia?

…o accommodate over a million barrels a day. All directly benefiting Warren Buffett and his BNSF lines, among others, in all its inefficient and sometimes catastrophic glory. Much of the rail stuff was also subsidized and suspiciously under regulated. Still too there are new pipelines and new options to increase flow on older pipelines not to mention the whole expanded ethanol cultivation, processing and delivery thing – a environmental and food su…

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Cape Wind scrambling to meet deadline to qualify for $780 million taxpayer gift

…r for wind turbines from Siemens. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-16/buffett-s-midamerican-gives-siemens-biggest-turbine-order.html There is a big scramble on to meet the December 31 deadline. By all accounts, it does look like the PTC/ITC is nearing an end. The negative power pricing that George C mentions makes it difficult for merchant power producers to compete. Kewaunee is one victim. Vermont Yankee will only produce power for another y…

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