We are getting close to the end of June here in central Texas (and everywhere else). Know what happens here in July and August? It gets hot, 99-103F hot. And, the wind stops blowing. That’s right, just when it’s hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk, the magic energy from wind generators stops.
There aren’t enough solar panels to cover the gap so we need power provided by coal, natural gas and nuclear plants.
Peak energy demand time and renewable energy falls flat.
Just imagine if we were a manufacturing economy and needed unlimited power?
What would we do???🤨🧐
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A customer of a company for which I once worked manufactured solar panels. Given that they could source them for actual cost, care to hazard a guess how much of their manufacturing energy came from solar?
If you said ZERO, you are a winner.
Wind for when it’s windy
Solar panels for when the sun shines
Batteries for when it is dark and windless
Gas and coal for backup
Lots and lots of great big power lines to link all this mess
What could possibly be wrong?