And we can’t advance the technology for nuclear power generation either. If we develop hydrogen fusion reactors there will be environmentalists screaming that it has to stop for who knows how many reasons.
They predicted that the coastlines would be under 20 feet of water by 2015. I guess we’re going to have to push that out a bit.
Denmark, the world's most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant.
It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power's unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark's largest energy utilities) tells us that "wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that "Germany's CO2 emissions haven't been reduced by even a single gram," and additional coal-and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.
Attach turbines to Guam to capture the rotational energy as it flips over.
coal and natural gas from Arizona and Nevada
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No so fast! Nevada passed some “ green new deal “ too and they are trying (sneakily) to get it implemented in AZ too.
E.G. They shut down 2.25GW Navajo power plant, the major power source in AZ. Just because their Co2 “emission”.
Didn’t Germany have to fire up a bunch of coal plants to meet thier demand this year.
Of course the joke that was the ERCOT / Texas power grid last winter.
Wind and solar can be useful parts of the energy production mix, but 100% renewables is still impossible with current technologies.
If anyone really believed in zero carbon emissions they should be pouring money into battery storage and/or nuclear research.
Massachusetts is in contention here.
However, I love green energy at the individual level, if you have different motivations for why you do it, and if you live in an area that can make it work reasonably well (i.e. solar in the southern half of the U.S.).
My reason for putting solar panels onto my roof and a substantial battery bank into my garage are to make it so that at least the energy portion of my monthly budget won't be thrown completely out of whack every time the Dims raise our energy costs (ostensibly to force us to repent from our cow farting ways). This is not a good idea if you're young (read: in the wealth-building stage of your life), if you plan to move in 15 years (before the solar system pays for itself), if you have trees shading your roof, or if you have a shingle roof (needing to be replaced every 10 years while the solar panels have maybe a 25-year warranty).
I don't have those limitations. I used mainly a HELOC (plus only 3% of my wealth, but the solar tax credit refunded back to me went back into my investments) to put solar panels onto my metal roof that has no shade and gets plenty of sun in the south. I got tired of both my natural gas bill and power bill increasing a lot more than a modest 3% inflation rate even though my wife and I didn't increase our energy consumption. My now all-electric house gets about 50% of its power from the solar system. Thus as the Dims make us pay more for power I'll fuss about it only half as much. Even if the Dims quit making energy more expensive and the power rate goes up only a reasonable 3% per year for inflation, my system will still pay for itself in 9 years, even with paying for the interest on the HELOC I used to buy the system. After the HELOC is paid off I'll put the savings I have every month from a lower power bill into a simple investment account and use that money to maintain and upgrade the system.
Will it ever get me completely off-grid? No. To be honest, any upgrade on my system at this point will run into the Law of Diminishing Returns -- upgrades aren't feasible. But if it allows me to have only $300 per month in my budget to power my all-electric two-story home for life (the $300 being the power bill plus the HELOC payment for now, after HELOC is paid off it'll be power bill plus invest the excess so I can use it later for upgrades even though upgrades increase the efficiency a little more) while everybody else has power/natural gas bills increasing geometrically (Obama: under my plan electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket), then it's served its purpose.
Basically, I like green energy from a libertarian standpoint. I hate green energy the way the Dims try to force it onto us to make us bow to their climate apocalypse god and pay a tithe of carbon credits to their climate prophet Algore. I especially hate the bastardization of physics where they expect a one-size-fits-all to work well for everybody regardless of a region's environment or needs. But decentralized green energy (read: done at the individual level) is working well for me.
They will produce a lot of signs proclaiming areas to be a green new energy site.
Much like the Osama signs claiming to be infrastructure improvement sites along highways.
And more big green plants will go bankrupt in a matter of months.
An ice storm hit mid-winter, followed by 10 days of near zero nighttime temperatures and two heavy snow storms. When it hit, wind turbines were supplying 40% of Texas' electricity. The ice shut down almost all of them, so backup natural gas generators were turned on. There was insufficient power from them, so federal regulations REQUIRED rolling blackouts. The blackouts shut down some of the compressors providing gas to the generators, so some of them had to be turned off, further reducing the electricity supply. Then the snow storms and freezing weather hit. The roads were blocked by snow, and the communities had no plows to remove it. This shut off delivery trucks for replenishing gas stations and grocery stores. With the rolling blackouts, the grocery stores taped shut the cooler doors, meaning no milk, cheese, orange juice, meats, etc. could be sold. This all lasted for over a week before the snow and ice melted, the roads were opened, and the store shelves replenished.
My plans also would have failed. I have two back-up generators, one for the heat pump, the other for the refrigerator and water well pump. I keep little gasoline for them, since it goes bad in the summer heat. I had about an hour's supply. It could not be replenished, since my 4-weel drive vehicle only could bring me to the closed gasoline stations. It was too cold for my heat pump defrost cycle to keep up, so the outside unit froze into a solid block of ice. I did have sufficient cut wood to supply the fireplace, if necessary.
Fortunately for us, for whatever reason, our electricity was never off. It may have been because we were only 3 miles, or so, from a small hydro power generator. Our electricity never even flickered enough to cause the digital clocks to blink. I left our water trickling, so it never froze. The 70 degree ground water melted the ice blocks from our heat pump with about a half hour of soaking each time it shut down. I also managed to buy the last 15 lb. processed turkey roll at a store 20 miles away. We were "stuck" with barbecued turkey 'steaks' for the week.
I bring this up only to show that the arm chair bureaucrats in Washington DC and state capitols simply have no clue how to solve problems that the free market system easily eliminates.
I’m betting on Germany. They plan to shut down their last nukes in 2022.
Also, Russians love to make Germans shiver.
I’m waiting for California to crash the grid in Washington state...and then demand they build more windmills.
None of them. When liberals fail they double down on it.
None of them. When liberals fail they double down on it.
<>The generation of electricity will be “decarbonized” by some time in the 2030s, and the world will reach “net zero” carbon emissions by around 2050.<>
Free beer tomorrow.
I live in a fairly small sized community of 2 small cities & we depend on gas & electricity. So far, it is working OK, but there is a sizeable solar array near one city that is apparently online. I can never get any information as to what it is actually supplying or the cost of same. I am assuming it feeds into the electrical grid of one city & no one knows(but the power company) what the actual cost is as the consumers are paying a certain amount without knowing the cost breakdown of the two sources. To my knowledge, it is all owned by one company(both sources) & I doubt they are about to let anyone know all the details & can declare that the solar array is actually saving money; which is doubtful. Probably all they know is that their electric bill gets higher without knowing the reason why.
They are all lying about it.
Google homepage says: Carbon neutral since 2007