Title: Unit 10 Overview
Course: REEC 120 Sustainability and Renewable Energy > Section: REEC 120 Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Unit 10 Overview

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In putting cost in perspective the focus is on how much it might cost to implement these changes to renewable energies. See page 216 for a good description. (Ok, the funny looking L in the front of the costs is the British symbol of their currency the Pound.) The pound exchanges at roughly $1.63. Wow, it is expensive for us to visit Britain!

It costs a lot to implement renewable energy, and we need to do a lot of things to make the switch to renewables. What are we to do? One suggestion is to create a price for carbon emissions. The motivation is to produce financial means to change our carbon emissions. Here the topic gets political. There are a lot of issues at hand such as jobs and developed versus developing countries. Pages 223 and 224 give a version as to how carbon capture will work. I do not know what the correct answer here is. I see the merits of it but also the problems.

Another issue that I notice is that it is cheaper to buy a new item than get the old one fixed. Cars, microwaves, all are cheaper to replace than repair. As an instructor that teaches repair, I am all for it. As a consumer, there is no way I want to keep using a 1987 Sylvania 19” TV.