Posted on 07/09/2024 5:04:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wind is quietly blowing away coal, when it comes to supplying electricity in the US.
In April, wind power generated more electricity than coal for the second month in a row, according to the latest available data from the Energy Information Administration. Wind briefly surpassed coal once before in April last year, but this time it’s by a much larger margin and for two consecutive months.
Renewable energy production has been ticking up for years but only recently have fuels like wind and solar approached the ballpark of fossil fuels and nuclear power. Last year renewables made up 21% of electricity generation in the US.
However, tech companies’ insatiable need for fuel to power their AI projects and the data centers that support them could mean that utility companies will have to lean more heavily on natural gas, coal and nuclear than would have otherwise. That’s one reason investors like Warren Buffett are investing in energy companies. Tech companies themselves are getting into the energy business and are buying directly from power plants, generally wreaking havoc on the energy grid.
Natural gas remains the main fuel source for electricity generation in the US by a long shot.
Yep, the SCOTUS just ruled that government agencies cannot make rules with the weight of law.
This is like saying your toddler now walks faster than Biden.
It’s not that the toddler is so fast, it’s just that Biden is slow.
Coal is taking a beating and being turned off thanks to eco insanity.
Look at the graph - wind’s great achievement is nothing compared to coal’s contribution in 2000.
This has always been the prob w/green energy - it simply CANNOT meet the demand.
That means no AC/heat for you or me but plenty for government folks and their primary supporters.
It doesn’t change the fact that Wind is a fool’s errand
You still have to have the Coal plants sitting there burning and turning in case the wind stops blowing or shuts down.
It doesn’t change the fact that numerous coal plants have been prematurely decommissioned leaving customers to pay for plants from which that they do not receive benefit.
Coal and solar require base load plants to be built and be always available so there is no real benefit to building and installing them. They are superfluous.
Coal technology has reached the point that there is essentially no air pollution produced by them other than CO2 which is not a pollutant. It is plant food.
Green energy is a scam to bilk rate payers and tax payers.
Sheesh..... about the biggest pile of bull squeezins I’ve read today.
Obama closed over 100 coal plants.
The EPA has made it easy to add wind power, made it difficult if not impossible to add coal power. As old coal generating plants close down, there are none allowed to replace them. They are being replaced not by wind but by NG. So this comparison is probably accurate enough by the numbers, but is basically meaningless without context. Worldwide, coal is at an all time high and climbing.
Below the hard deck doesn’t count Maverick. If you devastate the coal industry, tear down coal plants, and subsidize windmills... you don’t get to crow that wind is doing well as though it were some kind of free market victory.
RE: Went to their website to find out and the site never stops loading. No contact or about page.
I don’t know, I clicked on the link and it loaded just fine.
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It loads but never stops, does it end?
As long as the money keeps coming from government, they will keep building those wind turbines. It does not mean, outside government funding, that they work better than coal.
I like Carlin’s rules. Never believe anything the government says.
And China does not build clean coal plants. Their coal plants are basically the same as the coal plants built by the US in the 1950s as far as pollution controls.
Most of their plants are also built on their East Coast so that prevailing winds carry that pollution to the US West Coast.
The US and Australia ship them the coal, they burn it and send the smog to the US.
Amazing what happens when you shut down US coal plants by regulatory means.
Liberals —> “Ooohhh...it feels orgasmic good to be “doing something” for the climate emergency.”
Even if it is nonsensical.
That’s how it works with resources. They buy the raw materials and ship back the refined products.
Why did this sudden shift happen? Well, we were running out of natural gas. Natural gas plants became prohibitively expensive to operate. Natural gas reserves deplete rather quickly. They are not like a pool of oil trapped in the rock pores under pressure but of somewhat constant volume in relation to pressure. Natural gas reservoirs are more like a balloon and as it deflates there is less pressure, less volume released and less volume remaining in the balloon. In short, massive gas reserves can go away rather quickly. Even additional drilling won't usually do much for recovery and unlinke oi reserves, there is no secondary recovery, no sweeping or pumping of liquid hydrocarbons from a pressure depleted reservoir. Gas simply blows down.
In 1982 regions of the US were clamoring for natural gas. We sold natural gas at $9 a thousand cubic feet at the wellhead, an almost unheard of price today. The 50 odd years of reserves at present consumption rates rely on present production rates, those are not sustainable without substantial drilling. Adding to the depletion of reserves there is depletion of rate even if reserves remain. In horizontal wells that depletion of rate falls precipitously even just in the first year and sometimes months. We will once again struggle to make rate long before we exhaust reserves and once again the price of natural gas will necessarily skyrocket.
Chemical engineers weep to see natural gas burned since it is such a valuable feedstock for chemicals. We are squandering that resource right not, burning it for electricity because we have to because coal has been condemned. Natural gas has become the fuel of convenience but is fortunately relatively cheap because of enhanced drilling and completion technology that only really serves to deplete the resource even faster.
That wind energy now surpasses coal electric energy is almost inconsequential. Wind and solar and the other green darlings have hardly made a blip to repair the base load damage done to coal generation. Natural gas is saving the day for now. Without this hydrocarbon fuel there would be no so-called green revolution. It is all smoke and mirrors and it is all destructive and we will pay a huge price for that unless some rescue comes along very soon. Such things just don't happen though.
I could win the gold in the 100 meters if all the other runners were dragging a dump truck behind them. Very ignorant headline.
That’s an interesting thought.
One always has to consider the Unintended Consequences of any action.
Wind is caused by differences in atmospheric pressure which is caused by temperature imbalances over huge areas.
Wind turbines slow winds in a given area as they absorb the energy of that wind. But they also are slowing the transfer of heat energy from one place to another.
Who knows what the consequences of that may be.
But you can be assured that whatever the consequence it will be blamed on Global Warming.
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