« Coal is cheaper », they said.
Ten years ago, I presented a project to build solar carports in front of a group of business angels. We spent hours to prepare a business plan and a nice ppt presentation. Most investors are not environmentalists.
Yesterday, in the Beyong Bitcoin hangouts, once again, I have been confronted to this terrible question : what is the profitability of the project ? What is the ROI of solar energy ?
Today, Irma, the most destructive hurricane of all time is destroying South-West Florida.
The increase of CO2 is rising the temperature of the oceans, making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive.
Environmentalists have warned governments for more than twenty years, it is cheaper to develop renewable energy rather than to burn coal. « Coal is cheaper », they said. No longer. If you include the costs of rebuilding after Harvey, Irma and José, coal is no longer cheaper than solar energy. Of course, I am very sad to be right, I would have prefered to be wrong.
I feel like the humming-bird who is spliting on the forest fire to extinguish the fire. Fortunately, there are many and many new humming-birds every days.
I issued a new token on the Bitshares decentralized exchange, TOPSOL.
You buy TOPSOL, we build solar farms.
https://bitshares.openledger.info/market/TOPSOL_BTS
Anybody can buy TOPSOL and invest in solar energy. Is it profitable ? If you have read this post from the start, you will no longer ask the question. What is the price not to invest in solar energy ? That is the good question.
More details in the executive summary:
http://cannecy.free.fr/solarcoach/Solarcoachwp0.95.pdf
I am recruiting 200 social marketers to promote the solar coach projects.
Six people has already participated and explained why solar energy is a good solution.
You can read their post here, you can still be one of them.
Today, you can buy TOPSOL for 1 BTS. Starting Monday September 11th., the price of TOPSOL will rise to 2 BTS. I am expecting that in 5 years 1 TOPSOL will reach the price of 1 MWh. How much do you pay your electricity ?
Solar carport built in 2011 at Le Bourget-du-Lac, France, for the National Institute of Solar energy.
People are short sighted, they would rather have profit now and risk someone else getting hurt later. They of course forget that the insurance industry and national debt used to clear up such messes effects everyone. Or they don't care as their personal profit will be more than their share of the clean up operation.
Coal needs to be priced with these negative externalities included, it won't be cheap then.
In fact solar is cheaper than coal now anyway.
Don't forget to claim your SolarCoin from www.solarcoin.org
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Thank you so much for bringing this project to the Whaletank last Saturday. The conversation about it continued in the after party chat that day as well. I am happy to see you won the 1000 BeyondBit prize for your project.
I will be buying some TOPSOL myself and will help spread the word with a post to my followers this week.
PS: I did survive hurricane Irma with minimal damage to my local community (inland from the Ft. Lauderdale area), but overall it was a pretty big hit to South Florida.
Whaououou ! that a great news ! thank's a lot .
:-) The BeyondBits are usually distributed the day of the next Whaletank, then you can use them to upvote your posts. Were you able to contact fuzzy over on discord for the guest list sharedrop?
Also, I sent you BTS to buy TOPSOL.
I received your BTS and sent TOPSOL, thank you.
I post to @officialfuzzy on Discord but did not receive answer yet.
I paid 10 TOPSOL to the speakers who have indicated their bitshares id in the RSVP.
Thank you so much!