Many thanks to Francis Menton for allowing posting of his entire essays from his site “Manhattan Contrarian” as long as a link and attribution are included. The articles are always very insightful.
I think California politicians are convinced that entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists have been “holding back” on green technology, no matter how fantastic, but will put out if the government just beats them with sticks, hard enough and long enough. So, put out by 2030, or else, you technology types! Because that’s how innovation works.
I think California politicians are convinced that entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists have been “holding back” on green technology, no matter how fantastic, but will put out if the government just beats them with sticks, hard enough and long enough. So, put out by 2030, or else, you technology types! Because that’s how innovation works.
If you use the 2019 numbers for Germany, an average 3-person home pays around 88.7 Euro ($105) monthly. Note, Germans don’t heat their homes with electricity or use AC units for cooling, so this is for plain regular home usage. You can also use the 1998 cost rate, and it’s 78-percent more.
So your German trend line, looking just ten years in the future, will be more than $150 for plain regular power. Chief reason? Coal plants will decrease, and nuke power is turned off in 2030. Wouldn’t shock me if the rate was near $200 a month (for just plain regular power).
California needs enough electricity for highways packed with electric cars.
Having 100% renewable electricity but only a third of what is needed is a good way to ensure the California economy collapses.
California probably needs more natural gas-fired generating facilities so it can broadly use electric cars. Over their lifetime, electric cars will have far less CO2-related emissions.
If wind and solar power are soooooo great then why are taxpayers forced to subsidize them sooooo heavily? After February’s deep freeze ask Texans how “great” wind and solar power are.
Renewable energy: the new state religion in some places.
The Texas blackout this last February was caused in part by too much reliance on wind and solar, and not enough back up by on-demand carbon-fueled powerplants. Which also had their problems due to a lack of sufficient winterization, and lack of winterization of the natural gas wells and collection and distribution systems feeding them.
You can’t run the modern civilization we’ve come to expect on wind and solar. That large portions of the populace have been propagandized to believe you can is a real problem.
“A study conducted by Northwestern University in the US found that modules made by world’s biggest panel manufacturing country have about 30 percent lower energy efficiency in production and a carbon footprint about twice as high as modules produced in Europe or North America”
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/resources-and-recycling-needs-germanys-solar-panels
Many decades ago Communist China tried something called the Great Leap Forward:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
The wind farms I am not so sure of, lots of huge costs up front not to mention ugly and bird killers. Solar (in California) is good to offset the Air Conditioning in the summer but that is about it.
Am in Costa Rica and one AirBnB had only solar heating for the water and the shower got cold after 3-4 minutes.
Explain “Renewable” electricity.
Yah, all such estimates of goal reaching need loads of follow-up questions. How long? What was load? What was peak and avg price? Was this a “one trick pony” or can you repeat?
I hope they freeze in the dark! They deserve everything they get. They are destroying this country and world!