Posted on 08/01/2021 4:57:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Green is the new red.
WATERMELON POWER!! Green on the outside, red through and through.
Texas and California can tell you about that......although California would probly lie about it
In a similar math problem it was determined to meet the USA power needs tge entire West of the USA would have to covered in solar panels.
Most of the population gets their information from mainstream media journalists. Most of the journalist class is innumerate. So we shouldn’t find it surprising people are so clueless about how terrible Green New Deal energy policy really is.
Reality / math = science
And science isn’t any progressive’s strong suit.
Don’t you know that math is racist?
* Surely the author meant "over the course of an hour because they multiply that number by 24 to arrive at the 840 GWH figure for the average daily usage. There was no reason to multiply by 24 if the 35 GW is the average for a day...Or what did I miss?
How quaint. You appear to be under the mistaken belief that facts, logic, and clear thinking matters to these morons.
Good article. A mix of renewables and natural gas makes sense, and is a much cheaper way to generate power than nukes or coal, but we are far away from being able to run a grid on just renewables.
...Unless a GWH is 1/24 of a GW??? That doesn’t seem intuitive to me.
Do people want really, REALLY “green” power? Or is it just a talking point?
We could drill down, maybe a few hundred feet near a seismatically active area, where magma is relatively close to the surface, or really deep, several miles, until again there are molten lava beds. Then tap into the heat to run geothermal power plants, at virtually no cost for fuel, no pollution, and little danger of a radioactive escape. This is already a “China syndrome” that shall never penetrate any deeper than it already is.
This probably calls for a much higher level of engineering than is now applied to either solar or wind power generation, but it has the advantage of running 24/7/365, with only very rare downtime, to replace casings and piping that succumbed to the extreme heat.
And it can be applied virtually anywhere on the surface of the earth, if only the access is drilled deep enough. Plus, long transmission lines from distant sites of the power generation to the point of consumption could be vastly reduced or eliminated altogether.
But until then, there are thorium-fueled molten salt reactors, which use atomic fission as their power source.
If we ever get over superstitious dread of all things nuclear. Thorium-fueled plants have few if any of the huge disadvantages of uranium-fueled light water reactors.
https://www.powermag.com/a-thorium-molten-salt-reactor-when-and-where-you-need-it/
no you are correct.
I caught that too.
Solar-powered Apple iPhones would also be an alternative.
What percentage is being used by illegal aliens?
I’d venture they weren’t using as much energy in their home countries.
Apparently ‘SCIENCE!!’ Only goes so far with the typical leftist..
California is going to be the New Nigeria when it comes to power distribution.
That means government centers and wealthy zip codes get the electricity, and everybody else gets occasional scraps.
Thorium Nuclear Power Plants as your base supply.
Add Hydro as a peak supplement.
Use Natural Gas as an emergency backup when a system goes down or needs maintenance.
If someone wants wind and/or solar to live off the grid, more power to them. (did you see that pun?)
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