Boulder, Colorado is the perfect place to try this. Full of leftist true believers.
“I claim credit for being the first person to demand a demonstration project to show how a zero emissions electrical grid is supposed to work”
I remember one case where there is some small island. They tried it, and then someone noted there was still an underground connection to a larger island, that, of course, had real generators.
Pretty funny.
I really don’t care if the space-cadets in boulder try to run their city on fart gas. Just leave me alone and don’t steal money from me to support their wet dream LIB ideas. I hope EVERY LIB nitwit moves their to experience their planned nirvana. By the way...this woman has those LIB nitwit crazy eyes.
Building the airplane while in flight. How come the head of the agency reminds me of Deloris umbridge from HP. Sickly sweet pleasant conversation while sticking the knife into you all the while saying it is in your best interest.
Maybe she can tell us how much Oil/Coal is used to create the Zero Emissions EV batteries ,LOL
They’re always so demanding when they’re no where near zero emission themselves ,LOL
(Pssst. There is always nuclear power to generate “Zero-emission” electricity.)
Jeez. How do people with no background or knowledge of anything important suddenly become experts when they are politicians? Just amazing how inflated blowhards succeed. Lie, deceive, cheat, steal, whatever it takes, and screw the peasants. Bring back the guillotine, something the French did right.
Alternatively, the whole thing is a fraud that should be denounced, and Demonicrat Congresscritter Harriet Hageman of Wyoming should undergo an emergency medical cranialanalectomy.
There was an island in Maine I believe that tried it and failed miserably.
I loved the response from the Leftists:
“...One of the things that makes people so leery of politics and politicians is when people make ridiculous suggestions like that,” [Wallach] said in a telephone interview with WyoFile. “Nobody on the Boulder Council suggested we can do without all the fossil fuels at this point,” he said. “We make efforts to do better — to recognize that climate change is real and we do things we can do to combat it...”
Apparently, people like him don't have any problems with mandating all kinds of crazy things like banning ICE vehicles, requiring zero emission standards from their cities, states, and nation, and so on.
All good things, as long as it doesn't impact them in the least.
Thomas Sowell has opined that one of the reasons Leftists generate the most nonsensical legislation and laws there are, is that they escape having to experience the effects of those legislation and laws.
I always see things like this as a step in the right direction.
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good” -Thomas Sowell
Iceland comes close with only 4 out of 20,120 gigawatt hours from renewable sources vs fuel. That’s 0.01988071% of the grid that’s hydrocarbon based. If you dig deeper that was for tiny villages off the main grid using diesel generators. So Iceland can be said to be 99.98% renewable
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1192014/iceland-electricity-generation-by-source/
Sweeten also comes close and they use more energy per capita than Americans 13 megawatts vs 11 because they heat with electric in Sweden been there can confirm lots of electric heating. Saunas too glowing electric could that you dump small buckets of water on for glorious steam on a fridge night.
“Sweden is one of the global leaders in decarbonization, with clean energy sources – including hydropower, nuclear, wind, and solar – representing approximately 90 percent of the country’s electricity mix.”
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1013726/share-of-electricity-production-in-sweden-by-source/
France right now in real time is 2% gas 0% oil 0% coal. It’s nearly all renewables nuclear 67%, Hydro 13%, solar 13%,wind 5% they are also exporting 10,000+ megawatts as in they have a surplus and are selling 10,000 megawatts or ten one gigawatt reactors worth.
https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source
France is the example for the USA since Iceland has a unique location resource of Hydro and geothermal. Sweden is also blessed with lots of rain and huge elevation changes for Hydro. France is fossil fuel poor so they went nuclear in a big way. One standardized design built out state funded en mass and no lawfare allowed by the greens. Just build it and shut up. “This is the way”
I think Menton is 100% right on almost all of his analyses, but I disagree on this one. We don’t need a demonstration CITY to prove how bad the Green New Deal is, I think it can be demonstrated with a single ‘emission free’ HOUSE.
A house needs to be built in Kansas (near the geographic center of the country) that is entirely free of carbon dioxide emissions, except for the breathing if its inhabitants. The household must include electric heat pumps, water heaters, BEVs only, and never any ICE travel by its inhabitants. ALL backup power must come from energy storage on the site of the house, and must come only from carbon dioxide free on site sources, except for EV charging from commercial stations while on vacation. Sufficient power to the home must be available to do this year-round.
This will prove to be impossible in the near term at any cost, much less in a cost effective manner.