Manhattan Contrarian ping
Given the energy squeeze from the Iran War, the best answer is an energy policy that focuses on abundance from all sources of power generation.
With all of the useless wind coming off the college campii, I think we need to get back to fossil fuels.
Nuclear and what type of tech it unlocks. Wind and solar are feasible as large scale and dependent. We will learn the hard way.
I don’t see wind being economical along the east coast of the USA.
The wind is too variable in speed and location.
As for solar, my appliances, water heater and AC systems have no coordinating means to work with solar panels.
Micro nukes. Lots of them.
I'll take the bet on the U.S.
China is also building a bunch of nukes - more than the rest of the world combined!
Their energy policy is “all of the above”, a winning strategy.
Simple ‘fix’: All (scheduled) ‘mandates’+ MUST be implemented via govt for guinea-pig testing
“{X} power is the wave of the future”
- All govt blds. MUST rely upon {X} wind 100% by 2027 (disconnect ‘em from the grid)
Let ‘em walk the walk.
Didn’t the NYT publish a lot of Soviet Communist propaganda back in the 1930s and 1940s?
Don’t they love China now?
What may make China’s wind energy work is very cheap power storage.
It is not available today, but might be available 10-20 years from now, maybe sooner.
There is a tremendous amount of research into better, cheaper, electrical power storage systems.
I think micro nuclear power plants are the much better solution.
“…I would not be surprised at all to learn that wind turbines have at least some negative effects on military radars and flight paths.”
I don’t know about military radars but I do know they can be detected on weather radar.
Climate change bad.
Changing regional climate patterns with these monstrosities good
On the big island of Hawaii they send crews out to maintain the hulking windmills to keep up appearances. They aren’t connected to the grid, they leak oil, but they keep them spinning just for show.
On Oahu they put those ugly things along the north shore right by the beach. But my buddy in Kailua can’t even install out door garden lights at his beach house because animals or something.
I have been to China 4x and have traveled thousands of miles by train there. We spent most of last month there and traveled extensively throughout central China by train. I saw several large nuclear generating stations and countless very large coal fired power plants. There wasn’t any “green” energy power plants that we saw.