[grateful]

I’d like to see the clean energy companies try to make plastic out of wind and sunshine....

[Hootowl99]

Your comment.... re. Making plastics... 35 years ago, I was in Denver visiting family and a high school age cousin of mine (Boulder educated) remarked something along the line about evil oil had to be eliminated. I asked her where she was going to get the plastic to manufacture her hair dryer or electricity to power it.

Damn good person but I think that she’s still a goofball liberal.

[poconopundit]

I’d like to see the clean energy companies try to make plastic out of wind and sunshine....

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Thanks for that dose of reality. I use plastics like everybody else, but the fact that they are made by oil, gas, and coal is buried on the backside of my brain.

Now it’s front and center.

[carcraft]

At this stage you simply can’t produce enough solar and wind powered electricity. Peak energy demands are early evening and early morning as people get ready to go to work or school and come home in the evening.. Peak energy production from wind and solar is mid day. Then solar and wind production are fixed. If weather situations develops requiring heavier demand on electricity you can not increase production. So you have a mismatch and brown outs. Witness California. With nuclear, gas or coal fired units you can simply crank up the system to increase energy out put. Perfect, no, but far more robust than solar or wind. Solar energy requires rare earth minerals. The US doesn’t have a lot so once again we are depending on forgiven sources for our energy.