Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More 325
Fluffeh writes "A recent study of over 1,000 folks for a paper published in Nature Climate Change has found that the average U.S. citizen is inclined to pay a premium to ensure that by 2035, 80% of U.S. power comes from clean energy. At random, respondents received one of three "technological treatments" or definitions of clean energy that included renewable energy sources alone, renewable sources plus natural gas, and renewable sources plus nuclear power. Delving into the socioeconomics, researchers found that Republicans, Independents, and respondents with no party allegiance were less likely by 25, 13 and 25 percentage points respectively to support a NCES than respondents that identified themselves as Democrats."
Nice editing, editors. (Score:5, Informative)
Who cares (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why isn't renewable cheaper? (Score:5, Informative)
Surface area required for solar powering the world (Score:4, Informative)
You might be interested in this infographic.
http://www.landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127 [landartgenerator.org]
As it turns out, the world is remarkably large.
Re:And, of course (Score:5, Informative)
Why would someone go to MacD to get salads?
Because their friends who like burgers are also going there for lunch. The ability to placate the healthy eater or vegeterian in a lunch group has become vital to the lunch menu, particularly in urban business areas. If you don't have these items, you get Veto'd by one person out of six, and you lose the whole group to some place the one can settle for.
Re:true of almost anything altruistic, really (Score:2, Informative)
A fair amount of the money the LDS brings in goes to fighting against gay marriage. So they are actually harming society with their "charity".
Re:true of almost anything altruistic, really (Score:4, Informative)
The interesting question to me about this is always how much of a Church's revenue flows back out as social works.
It depends on the church. My church gives almost all of the tithes to the poor. Pat Robertson's, otoh, probably gives very little if any; those $4000 suits and $500 ties he wears and $70,000 cars he drives cuts into the kitty.
Personally, I feel that churches tend to be over-rated as charities.
Some are, some aren't.
I see a lot of charities that put my money to better use than our church committee can.
Maybe you should find a different church?
Re:Who cares (Score:4, Informative)
Have a look at these two photos:
Springfield, Il in 1930 [illinoistimes.com]
Springfield, Il today [google.com]
Personally, I like my air clean.