Nevada power plant to close after dispute

AP ^ | 12/30/5

[dalereed]

Without subsidies there wouldn't be one stupid windmill generating power.

[Czar]

Hard to figure out where Arnold stands on particular issues, since he rotates like a weather vane depending on who happens to be giving him heat at the moment.

[freedumb2003]

Hard to figure out where Arnold stands on particular issues, since he rotates like a weather vane depending on who happens to be giving him heat sex at the moment.

[Rca2000]

Somewhere, I read that conventional renewable energy sources(that is, NON superconducting, non nuclear), like wind, solar and geothermal power, could not be expected to handle more than about 5% of the average power needs, in the best-case scenario!!

[FOG724]

depending on who happens to be giving him heat at the moment

Reminds me of a balloon releasing a lot of hot air.

[Czar]

No question this guy has turned out to be "all hat and no cattle".

[bkwells]

Here's a related story: Ariz. mine closure throws Indians out of work.

[chimera]

Sounds about right to me. In this country, the figure that sticks in my mind is 0.6% of electricity generation came from "renewable" sources, excluding hydropower since that is a "traditional" generation source. But since electricity production is about one-third of all energy production, it represents about 0.2% of total energy production. Kind of hard to run a modern country on totals like that.

But the real fly in the ointment when it comes to things like solar and windpower is availability. Relying on intermittent energy sources for a significant portion of baseload power requirements is a prescription for disaster when it comes to running an industrialized country that depends on high-tech for its living. Not having energy when you need it will leave a lot of people unhappy at best, at risk for their lives at worst.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Man, that is ugly. Looks like aliens invading or something.

[chimera]

Terrible. A massive forest of skinny metal tress in an otherwise natural wilderness. Talk about visual disruption. Where are the enviro-wackos when you need them? Oh, I forgot, Teddy is fat, drunk and happy protesting the Cape Cod wind project, and ex-druggie Robert Kennedy Jr. is off trying to get Indian Point shutdown. Just where we don't need them...

[chimera]

And, before anyone says it, no, I'm not talking about the road and the streetlights in the foreground, but the distant view of the desert right up to the mountains. That view reminds me of some of the early-day pictures of the windcatter fields in Oklahoma and East Texas, literally a forest of oil drilling rigs. Now they've got things that look like super-sized Cuisanarts covering the landscape.