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I will not give you one dollar of mine to do it.

Cost is the big thing for a green roof.


I agree, I don't want to give a dollar to oil and gas either, yet here in Colorado alone, we give the gas industry alone over $300 Million a year, as well as almost unrestricted and cheap access rights to minerals (since the state owns ALL mineral rights, not the landowners except for a few cases). Same with tax breaks for the oil industry. Cut those immediately. They've been highly profitable for the most part of well over 100 years, they don't need those breaks.

I've already conceded that costs must come down.

And very few spout that solar and wind are the entire solution, but rather a way to reduce the demands on coal and gas so that we don't need as much dirty generation (and I'm not going down the path of "manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels is dirty" since the same can be said of coal mining, gas drilling and powerplant construction and operation, in the end solar and wind don't emit anything while operating) Yes, costs need to come down. Duke Power would not be what it is without Uncle Sam (Tennessee Valley Authority) nor do I suspect would most utilities. Point is, we should have a very well rounded portfolio of numerous energy sources, wind farms 5 miles offshore, geothermal, nuke, solar on rooftops, wave generators, gas and if a way can be developed to sequester emissions from coal, coal as well. All combined to develop a more robust and less polluting energy grid (unless you like the brown clouds we have out here held down by the inversion layers) that could contribute toward a reduction in dependence on foreign oil, assuming the battery issue with EV's is overcome (it will). Why allow anyone like Saudi Arabia or Iran to hold ANYTHING over our heads. See how quickly things crumble there if we were to reduce our consumption by even 10% and reduce our imports from them the same amount, let alone more. As mentioned many times, China is heading in this direction, and will soon own all of the manufacturing output for these technologies, and once again we here in the good old US of A will just add this to the list of things we must import from China. They are already outstripping us in the installation of this technology since they've seen that they can't fulfill their needs with only coal, and they don't have the restrictions on nuke plants that we have here, but haven't pursued a primarily nuke strategy anywhere.