http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121011408227772081.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yaho

Surging fuel costs are about to inflict more pain on consumers, this time in the form of rapidly rising electricity bills.

More than 90% of coal burned in the U.S. goes for electricity production, and fuel is the industry's largest single expense. Appalachian coal, which on Tuesday closed at $99.50 a ton, costs more than twice as much as it did in the first months of 2007 when it fetched about $45 a ton. Natural gas, closing at $11.15 on Tuesday, costs 45% more than it did early in 2007.

Last week, Ohio became the latest state to take a tentative step away from fossil fuels. Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland signed legislation requiring electric utilities to satisfy one quarter of their customers' energy needs, by 2025, through such means as renewable energy, new nuclear reactors and energy efficiency measures.


This type of legislation is a good idea!!! It's time we used all our resources - wind, water, renewable energy. Someone wanted to put up 10 windmills in my area and the permits were denied because the windmills violated building height limitations. Laws like these have got to go so new technology can flourish.

That explains the 25% increase in my bill this month.
It would be nice if they would increase the pay. aye?

Dang. Here they are, trying to get people to put up windmills for power, and then the people who control the permits deny it. Seems do defeatist.

They have to keep us under their thumb!!

Time for nuclear plants.

Geothermal is the way to go. Just not enough good locations for the power plants.

Every state has it's own best form of natural energy. Part of the solution to our energy needs may be as they say the sum of all the parts.....

You can overproduce with geothermal and ruin the land. It is not necessarily completely renewable. Only so much energy can be stored in a certain volume of earth.

Its a possibility, but research needs to be done on sites before they build anything.

It produces large environmental problems as well. This is an excellent site, which covers all the renewable energy sources and the benefits as well as the problems associated with them. Geothermal is one of the worst! The waste generated from geothermal is extreme both to people and the environment.

Wind is one of the best, but can only be used where forest dont exist. In California they have experienced a large number of deaths to endangered birds. For some reason they fly into them!

Anyway you can read it here,
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/renewable_energy_basics/environmental-impacts-of-renewable-energy-technologies.html