The issue is never the issue. The real issue is the revolution.
Well, Bill Gates has a solution to that.
Eliminate 80% of world population.
Such Insanity!
It is not about the environment, it is not about whether it even works or not, it is all about centralized power and control. It is just the vehicle they are using to do it.
New York is counting on using Canadian hydropower.
Of course, Canada might decide to go Greta and uses its own hydropower to do so. The Canadian national government could void the hydropower contracts made in Quebec.
each windmill takes 80 gallons of oil every year.
EV batteries could be used to smooth out supply.
If you need to drive 20 miles the next day and 27 miles the following day and your EV has a range of 290 miles, a major part of 243 miles of electricity capacity could run your house.
If, at some point in the future, there are a couple of breakthoughs in battery tech, solar and wind could become viable energy sources.
They already are in specific situations.
Battery tech is increasing in incremental fashion. I expect the energy density of current batteries will be doubled in a decade.
***But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long as most of the electricity comes from wind and sun.***
The back up sources would have to be natural gas or nuke plants as a coal fired plant requires three or four days to start up from a cold start. From a hot start it still requires as long as 8 to12 hours to get it back up to full efficiency.
Wind and solar energy are both essentially obsolete technologies. There is a reason why only the very rich or the very adventurous sail across oceans: the wind is unreliable, and at best produces relatively little energy. Nevertheless, liberals have concocted fantasies whereby all of our electricity, or perhaps our entire economy, will be powered by those fickle sources.
There are a number of reasons why this will never happen, but a paper published last week by Center of the American Experiment argues that land use constraints are the most basic reason why wind and solar are inexorably destined to fail. The paper, titled Not In Our Backyard, is authored by internationally recognized energy expert Robert Bryce, producer of the terrific documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains The World and the book A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations....
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/why-wind-and-solar-energy-are-doomed-to-failure.php
(links to the various resoures cited are available at the original)
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Also telling is they've hijacked another word with a long-established meaning and mis-redefined it for their own nefarious purposes.
"Renewables."
The First Law of Thermodynamics, ΔU = Q - W. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
So why does a thing that can be neither created nor destroyed need "renewing?"
The simple answer is, it doesn't. Wackadoodle re-definitions like they've created for "assault weapon" and "gender equality" and "environmental justice" and "renewable energy" are nothing but flag poles to rally the sheeple around.
It's a head-feint. What magicians call "misdirection," a gunshot in the back of the auditorium while Houdini leads the elephant off the stage.
And it's a certain sign you're being hoodwinked.