{"id":2582,"date":"2010-10-22T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/subsidize-solar-not-coal-or-biomass.html"},"modified":"2010-10-22T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:45:13","slug":"subsidize-solar-not-coal-or-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/subsidize-solar-not-coal-or-biomass.html","title":{"rendered":"Subsidize Solar, not Coal or Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/10\/21\/what-if-solar-got-the-same-subsidies-as-coal\/\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"250\" height=\"837\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/c1.cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/10\/solar-subsidized-like-fossil-fuels.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/10\/wsj-on-economic-problems-of-biomass-plants.html\">\nWSJ article about economic problems of biomass plants<\/a>\ngoes on to suggest the government subsidize biomass more.\nClean Technica suggests\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/10\/21\/what-if-solar-got-the-same-subsidies-as-coal\/\">\na better idea:<\/a>\nIf solar got the\nsame subsidies as fossil fuels,\nsolar would be cheaper than current grid power everywhere in the U.S.\nEach taxpayer has spent about $521 towards coal over the past five years\nand only $7.24 towards solar.\nHow about we reverse that?\n<p>\nSolar needs no fuel, no truck deliveries, and no emissions.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WSJ article about economic problems of biomass plants goes on to suggest the government subsidize biomass more. Clean Technica suggests a better idea: If solar got the same subsidies as fossil fuels, solar would be cheaper than current grid power everywhere in the U.S. Each taxpayer has spent about $521 towards coal over the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,120,216,16,740,21,23,24],"tags":[8738,8753,8704,5190,767,1069,8701,7,8715,8714,396,5248,3422,6],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-coal","category-environment","category-forestry","category-planning","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-biomass","tag-coal","tag-economy","tag-emissions","tag-forest","tag-fuel","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-pollution","tag-solar","tag-subsidies","tag-tree","tag-truck","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}