Calling John Kerry.
Duh.
Leftist are supremely good at ignoring reality.
I’ll file this under “You don’t say!”
Having been a consultant and done work with a few energy companies I can tell you just from the numbers that so-called “renewables” are not remotely competitive on price.
The trick Gaia worshipers use to claim otherwise is they attempt to simply not count a whole bunch of the costs. For example, the wind doesn’t blow where you want it to....ie the windiest spot in the US is that corner between North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The largest power consumer BY FAR in that area is Minneapolis. So you’d have to beam that energy down the power lines to get it to Minneapolis.
That means you’d have to build power lines - which are expensive. You’d lose a percentage of the electricity sending it over the power lines. Since the wind blows intermittently, you’d have to have 100% backup capacity by law (ie a coal fired plant on permanent standby). All of these cost are in addition to wind turbines only generating about 30% of baseload capacity on average. So add in the cost of a whole lot of windmills.
By the time you add all those costs in, its a joke to even try to compare this with a nearby coal fired power plant alone.
NY going natural gas free, gee NY in a few years, as soon as you thaw out, let me know how’s that going.......
“Most of the reviewed papers assumed that solar and wind will be always supplemented by some form of “firm generation capacity”, which is the obfuscated name of using fossil fuels complemented with “carbon capture and sequestration”.”
To morons, the uninitiated, climate idiots, financiers without a clue, and all others falling into the ego trap that somehow God has failed us by creating a self destructing planet, I offer this: The earth has more than demonstrated over a period of many thousands of years it’s ability to sustain life and provide abundantly not only what sustains life but to allow untold progress for a future that offers even more than at present, if we DON’T succumb to idiot environmentalist fear mongering.
That said why should I bend to the will of the few whose thought processes will not allow them to live in relative peace, but continually are harrowed up by fear of the unknown. Their constant bleating about climate issues without a shred of truthful evidence to back up their claims should cause alarm in anyone considering the big picture.
An example might be found in the beginning quote from the article in question. “Firm generation capacity” is a made up word to describe what power generation folks have called Base Load ever since base load was the concept that kept the US power grid alive and well on an hour by hour day by day month by month year by year basis up until around now.
Then, shazam you shut down and level 70 gigawatts of coal fired power generation with another 26 gigawatts still on the chopping block by 2028 and you find yourself using words like firm generation capacity. Words that translate to a thoroughly unreliable power grid.
I could go on, but why?
If we fail to come to our senses with what now stares us in the face including those who’s job it was to produce electricity 24 seven 365 we have already lost the battle and the war.
“We the People” may just have to be included in the groups first mentioned in paragraph number two. What’s it going to take to bring us to our senses? I haven’t even begun to mention the cost related to net zero life, or the carbon sequestration scam that requires the use of money generated by “We the People” to perpetuate the scam, these folks running the scam are a confidente bunch of scammers that think you and I are as stupid as they.
...and if you aren’t familiar with another part of the scam, just look into the future production of sustainable aviation fuel as one more unaffordable part of part of your future. I believe it is safe to say that the majority of the scam is brought to you by the Democrat Party with plenty of RINO’s as willing accomplices.
Eagerly awaiting their ultimate demise before they accomplish the impossible at our expense.
“”Climate scientists as a class are way too smart to stoop to doing basic arithmetic.””
There is definitely one basic arithmetic that most ‘climate scientists’ have mastered. The basic arithmetic of $$$ in their bank accounts. As long as you ‘research’ and publish the Hoax, National Geographic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and many others will pay you. The magazines named above all used to receive $$ from me. Once they drank the Hoax kool-aid, they were no longer readable. That anthropologist PhD who stated we cannot determine the sex of an excavated skeleton is a prime example of the insanity gripping those........What do we call them? Is someone an idiot for writing or saying words that will garner $$$. I can envision some of them laughing in the privacy of their homes, sometimes in disbelief at their salaries for stating the Hoax.
For the few liberals who will listen, I have explained two basic facts. First, C02 is PLANT FOOD. Next, New York and Chicago were under a mile of ice not so long ago, AND the cold and ice will return. All we can do is adapt.
Grid integration has ALWAYS been an issue.
BTW, drove by a solar farm in NYS recently.
All the panels were snow covered.
Wonder how much power those were generating...
Okay, having read this and the requirement that you need three months of storage capacity is a bit silly. You won’t need all three months during a continuous three month period.
But it does point out that for 25% of the average day you will need storage capacity and for the rest of the day you will need 100% of generating capacity to run your home and business PLUS an excess to recharge your storage system. And wind and solar simply cannot meed the demand nos, much less a demand of 100% plus.
The climate-hoax nazis run from facts at twice the speed of light.
Instead the agenda is to continue to scale up the failure to continue to prove it does not work hoping somehow the truth might be a mistake or something like that. Collectively, we are wasting money, time and effort we don't have to waste when instead we should be working harder and with more focus on some workable solutions to our future power supplies such as Thorium.