Green Zeal: renewables and ration packs

There are many costs to solar energy not accounted for by traditional environmentalists. However, to begin with we shall start with those costs which are – namely the cash in your pocket.

It is expected that by 2013 the price per kilowatt of energy to residential energy of solar energy and conventional non-renewable energy will both reach 17/18p – the price of solar energy decreasing whilst the price of non-renewable sources increasing to that point.

Commercial energy prices are expected to meet parity by 2018 – due to deflation in the costs of some of the key photovoltaic materials which are used in the harnessing of solar energy

This not only makes the environmentally friendly option of solar energy much more attractive, it also encourages increased investment and innovation in the sector that will further reduce solar energy costs

However, there are a number of non financial costs which Johnny Green-Fingers doesn’t want you to know about and which we reckon will outweigh the financial benefits until at least 2030:
1. Poverty in the Arabian Peninsular which is expected to cause a mass exodus away from the key population centres of Dubai, Riyadh and Doha. It is expected that refugees from the increasingly impoverished middle east, will increase economic migration to the UK by 43% (from a base of 42 in 2008)
2. Poverty in the UK. Undoubtedly there will be a major power shift to those areas which can provide solar energy at the lowest unit cost and the highest abundance. With such cheap sources of solar energy, other heavy industries will become increasingly cheaper – increasing the output and wealth of those areas. Such areas are expected to be Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsular who own some of the world’s best real-estate to harness solar energy
3. Increase gun crime. A direct result of the lowering of energy prices through increase solar energy generation is an increase in industrial output, weaponry and munitions. Additional to this is expected to be a decrease in standing armies as one of the key resources they were designed to defend become increasingly abundant – effectively reducing the safe demand of weaponry and munitions. Solar energy will therefore cause a material decrease in the costs in weaponry whilst desperate arms purveyors will be forced to turn to the general populous (i.e. local street gangs to sell their produce). Therefore, the direct correlation between solar energy and gun deaths can be understood – with an increased supply of guns encouraging murders to expand their activities with and decreased unit cost per death.

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