And never will.
Here and there you have seen isolated blackouts related to the lunacy of Green or Renewable Energy, you haven’t seen nationwide or perhaps continent-wide blackouts YET.
People will hopefully start realizing the fallacy of this type of energy production when all of the UK goes multiple days without power or blackouts in Spain and Portugal spreads to France and other interconnected countries.
We've also known that man does not know what the temperature of the earth should be at any point on earth and at any point in time.
We also know that man cannot control the temperature of the UNIVERSE since the earth cannot be isolated from the universe. So in fact, we believe we can control the temperature of the Universe.
Why am I laughing?? Cuz these brilliant scientists see no role for the sun in their equations.
I like the idea of individuals using renewable energy, i.e., solar and wind, for their own use and selling back the surplus. They might even choose to use more energy on days they generate more. Commercial wind farms just look ugly and aren’t profitable.
These things mostly suck because of the globalist anti-human “net zero” plan which is designed to cause shortages, want, and dependence on centralized government.
Wind and solar are pretty good as local supplements to normal power, particularly at the individual (house, farm, business) level. At that granularity use can be designed for that need and to allow for energy continuity in an outage or other emergency.
This also allows the installation to be done without trashing up everything (even ascetically pleasing) and without slaughtering birds and animals.
It’s far more important, though to get rid of the would-be tyrants and theft of our money and land. Pretty sure Joe Farmer will still be able to get a few panels and a converter for a remote workstation or someone for an off-grid residence without Big Government subsidies. Maybe better.
They ignored the old truism: You want it bad, you get it bad; and the worse you want it, the worse you get it. Right now renewables are up and coming but nowhere near ready for prime time.
All this technology sucks up electricity you can’t go to windmills or solar panels without shutting down civilization.
As the demand / supply of gas and oil decreases, the price of petroleum-based lubricants and seals will climb.
I can tell that in my part of Florida the wind doesn’t often blow and when it does it’s often insubstantial.
At other times, maybe 100 to 200 hours a year the wind is very powerful. At these times the local demand for energy is often lower.
I’ve studied US government forecasts of wind off the eastern and Gulf Coasts of the USA. The wind there would be too variable in location and too variable in power to be economic.
As for solar here in Florida, the cost of solar panels is attractive, but my house doesn’t have the demand priority management for my house to go off-grid to be able to save me the fixed charges of FPL.
I would be reduced to selling power cheaply to FPL and buying back power at a much higher price. I don’t want to risk facing the solar economics of California.
The solar industry in the USA has been dominated by fanatics and crooks.
The wind industry in the USA has been dominated by idiots and crooks.
The government in the USA has been dominated by idiots, fanatics and crooks.
Y’all realize that we’ve gone down the wrong Avenue with renewable energy. If we wanted a constant source of wind, we shouldn’t have chosen windmills. We should’ve chosen politicians because they never cease putting out hot air and they apparently are the most reliable source of wind!
It is not competition that matters so much. It can’t even work if you are talking about solar and wind. Both are down too often, vulnerable to nature. Civilization runs 24/7. If you do not have 24/7 baseload you will kill .
I remember a time in the oil industry when coal bed methane was all the rage. When the subsidies and tax credits ended it fizzled into obscurity. Wind and solar will do the same.
The coming problem is that all that “cheap” energy will have to be replaced quickly by the alternative, natural gas. Brace yourselves for costs to climb once more as the real deficit producing cost of green energy comes home to roost. The only thing that made green energy “cheap” is that a chunk of the actual cost was shifted to the taxpayer in the form of debt and taxation instead of your electric bill.
One can’t help but think that wind and solar are going to have a much rougher time under a PDJT administration than under a Brib-em admin. What I find interesting is that globally, the only U.S company that is one of the top 10 IWT manufacturers is GE Vernova... and their stock over the past year has really rocketed.... https://tradingeconomics.com/gev:us ....and particularly since April. However (and this would need some deeper digging), it seems that it is the nuclear and gas side of their business that has been the reason for the steep rise.
As for the rest of the IWT manufacturers, it seems that most of them were moving sideways this past year (except for Vestas which saw a stock price drop in the 60% range). Of the rest of them that are mostly focused on wind, I’m thinking that there are some candidates in there that are worth taking a chance on shorting them....
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“..The sooner governments abandon this fantasy solution to the world’s energy needs, the better....”
Exactly.
It is/was insanity foisted upon the world by the insane.
They should have been occupying a rubber room in an asylum...NOT setting any form of a government’s large scale energy policies and directives. We’re paying a high price in more ways than one for their clueless, insane antics. Just ask the whales and dolphins.
IF one wants to put a solar panel on their roof and/or a windmill on their property to assist in meeting their personal household loads, go get the load calcs done, whatever permits, etc. and have at it. They get to pay for it all; no harm, no foul. But to try and meet the huge baseload energy needs of a modern society with this stuff is....well...INSANE.
The problem is they choose the “renewables” that are the most expensive, least efficient, unreliable, and just not good at scale.
If they were working on hydro, geothermal, and nuclear, they’d be much better off!