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How do Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) work?
Is it an incentive to use renewable energy?
The basic idea that people who feel bad about something can buy them to get rid of the guilt.
The way that they work is that a very small amount (much less than the subsidies and tax breaks given to politically correct energy) of money goes to those who operate a wind turbine or solar panel (or even methane gas recovery systems at landfills, sometimes things that would have to be built regardless of whether any carbon credits were sold), the amount of money that the carbon offset actually provides is really too small to actually encourage use of politically correct energy, especially when you consider how much bigger the subsidies are (and they really are over-subsidised compared to how much energy they produce).
Of course there are renewable energy credit systems that do actually help, just that they cost so much more that the frauds out compete them (and governments don’t seem too interested in keeping that sector honest, some such schemes are actually run by the government, including some that sell more renewable energy than they actually generate (in other areas of the economy the word used for that is fraud)).
The main purposes that renewable energy credits serve are to act as indulgences and to help fool people into believing that fossil fuels can be replaced without using nuclear power (which thereby prevents fossil fuels from actually being replaced and keeps the coal and oil companies in business).
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New Austin renewable energy plan
Tags: What kind of money can someone make with an AAS in renewable energy?
Im thinking of going to school to get an associates of applied sciences degree in renewable energy. I was just wondering what kind of money someone with that would make.
If you own a degree – or any extra qualification – then you’ll already be ahead of the crowd when it comes to hunting for vocations. My mate has a degree and he wasn’t certain what direction to go with it, but he unearthed some good instruction on the site in the resource box below which guided him to decide that he wanted to be a lab assistant. There is lots of guidance on the site regarding extra vocations.
UNSEEN: Spain, Part 6
Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Spotlights El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands and the world’s first energy self-sufficient island.
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Proposal could cut renewable energy funds.