So the feds say wind beats coal. Well, okay. Sure. And now a word from George Carlin:
Whats going to happen when they figure out all those windmills are slowing down the earths rotation and are the real cause of global warming because days are getting longer????
They just finished building a brand new coal plant in China... By this time next week or the week thereafter, another will be brought on line, and another, and another and so on, and so forth.
Yep, if we have a hurricane every month, we’d be set....
What a load of nonsense!
Until they deal with the ENERGY STORAGE issue, the amount of power generated (whenever the wind feels like blowing) is next to meaningless.
Coal deal with storage by having HUGE HEAPS of coal on site.
So the feds say wind beats coal. Well, okay. Sure. And now a word from George Carlin:
Now let’s talk about cost...because IIRC, the USSC just said it had to be considered...by eperts....not political gurus..
When you physically stop/force the non use of coal then it’s not a leap to think that wind or something would create more energy. Fake economy.
Too bad that wind turbine farms cause climate change (downwind).
Oh well.
What the graphs show is not a huge increase in wind generated power but the decimation of th domestic coal power industry being replaced by natural gas. Our coal is now being shipped to China
I’m sorry, but that looks more like coal is going down than wind is going up. Is this reflecting all the coal plants govenors are shutting down for their green religion?
I’m fine with all of the above. But don’t burn any bridges.
Sherwood News? Never heard of them. Went to their website to find out and the site never stops loading. No contact or about page.
we live “out of town...a bit”. there is nothing but forest and small lakes for 100 miles in any direction. the ONLY wind here is the hot air from our local politicians and they don’t create anything but stife and deficits. progressive liberals aren’t just ignorant, they are purely STUPID.
This is like saying your toddler now walks faster than Biden.
It’s not that the toddler is so fast, it’s just that Biden is slow.
Coal is taking a beating and being turned off thanks to eco insanity.
Look at the graph - wind’s great achievement is nothing compared to coal’s contribution in 2000.
This has always been the prob w/green energy - it simply CANNOT meet the demand.
That means no AC/heat for you or me but plenty for government folks and their primary supporters.
It doesn’t change the fact that Wind is a fool’s errand
You still have to have the Coal plants sitting there burning and turning in case the wind stops blowing or shuts down.
It doesn’t change the fact that numerous coal plants have been prematurely decommissioned leaving customers to pay for plants from which that they do not receive benefit.
Coal and solar require base load plants to be built and be always available so there is no real benefit to building and installing them. They are superfluous.
Coal technology has reached the point that there is essentially no air pollution produced by them other than CO2 which is not a pollutant. It is plant food.
Green energy is a scam to bilk rate payers and tax payers.
Sheesh..... about the biggest pile of bull squeezins I’ve read today.
Obama closed over 100 coal plants.
The EPA has made it easy to add wind power, made it difficult if not impossible to add coal power. As old coal generating plants close down, there are none allowed to replace them. They are being replaced not by wind but by NG. So this comparison is probably accurate enough by the numbers, but is basically meaningless without context. Worldwide, coal is at an all time high and climbing.