[MtnClimber]

I am willing to try Green energy if AOC, Schumer, Kerry and Gore pay for the backup generating stations that can take over 100% capacity on a hot switchover, if the green energy fails or cannot meet demand.

[MissEdie]

My 12 year old daughter was trying to school me on climate change and how destructive we humans have been. I told her to research findings in the arctic and antarctic regarding excavations. She comes to me and informed me there have been fossilized tropical plants and animals found there that could not survive in a cold climate. When I asked her what did humans do to cause that, she tells me “Silly, humans weren't around then!” DUH I know that- our planet is going to do what God and Mother Nature want it to do, regardless of anything us mere humans contribute to the situation.

[NetAddicted]

PERUSE LATER.

[meyer]

Good article.

It boils down to ‘every watt of intermittent/uncertain power must be backed up by a watt of reliable power’. Every windmill has a gas turbine to supply when the wind isn’t blowing.

That IS part of the cost of the unreliable renewable energy source. Sometimes, the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. And when that happens, there’d better be coal, gas, or oil ready to back it up.

[Renkluaf]

Who knew? Most people with more then 2 brain cells.

[hecticskeptic]

Over the past decade, I’ve lost all confidence in grid supplied power and have accelerated the plans to get off-grid as fast as I can....and now that I’ve figured out some things with this, I would extend that thinking to any place we might move to in the future. Being totally dependent on others without backup plans is not just downright stupid, it’s dangerous.

[FirstFlaBn]

Just wait ‘til the resulting inevitable outages are managed by social justice warriors.

[Vaquero]

Burn your garbage to produce electricity. It works and the stacks can be scrubbed. We put out clean stack discharge here in America. Go after China and India if you want to reduce pollution.

[ontap]

Anyone who thinks we can go 100% renewable is an idiot. I’m guessing 4-10% is closer to the truth and even that would be in a a high estimate at present levels of solar and wind capabilities!!!

[metmom]

Seems like nobody ever calculates in the costs of manufacture, shipping, installation, and ultimately disposal of the devices at the end of their lives.

The total amount of energy needed for all that would, in all likelihood, exceed the amount of energy they actually produce in their lives, as opposed to the amount of energy they theoretically can produce.