Dare I say mine more coal while developing nuclear?
“104 GW of power generation is scheduled to be retired, it is scheduled to be replaced by 209 GW of new capacity by 2030 “
Capacity is a useless metric. That 209 GW of windmills and solar cells will produce that output only 28% of the time whereas that 104 GW of conventional plants will produce that output 80% of the time.
Guess which one produces more useful and “dispatchable” power.
Even if you replaced that 104 GW of conventional generation with 500 GW of solar and wind, you still don’t have the power when you need it most — windless hot days and at night.
There are 8,760 hours in a year. Are you ready for your power to be off 10% of the year?
I hope Congress comes to its senses and stops this lunacy.
AI is going to destroy all of us, one way or another.
Natural gas turbine generation.
The results of the demo-commies hard work to turn us into a 3rd-4th world country. Perhaps we should sacrifice a few each day at one of the Hawaii volcanos (just toss ‘em in) until we run out of them. We’ll tell them they are helping save the ‘climate’!
Cut 1,000,000 employees out of the feds, that’ll save a few bucks. Of course that will leave us with only TWO MILLION employees but we’ll get by.
But, but, but renewables...