Posted on 08/29/2019 5:37:07 AM PDT by knighthawk
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Georgetown, Texas – population 75,000 – was to be the new poster child of the green movement.
Environmental interest in Georgetown’s big push to generate all of its electricity from wind and solar power was amplified by three factors: the town and its mayor were nominally Republican; Georgetown is in an oil- and natural gas-rich state; and that state is deep-red Texas.
Former Vice President Al Gore and other climate change luminaries feted Georgetown Mayor Dale Ross, and Ross was featured prominently at renewable energy conventions.
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This guy looks at the Numbers https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog/videos
In Georgetown’s case, for it to truly go 100 percent renewable energy using today’s state-of-the-art mass-produced batteries from Tesla’s Gigafactory, the city would need a $400 million battery farm weighing some 20,000 tons to avoid a blackout on a quiet winter night. And, after spending $15,600 for each household to build such a battery farm, its backup power would be drained in 12 hours, with a second windless winter night leaving residents shivering in the dark.
Anybody tied to the grid for backup while using “renewable” energy is a fraud and a freeloader. He is taking advantage of the people who pay for the grid, he relies on only when he needs it, every single day so it can be there when his green power is inconvenient and he needs dirty old conventional power.
Green power is a myth so long as one is tied to the grid and may be a myth altogether in the balance when the various costs for it are admitted. It may be realistic some day but not now. The clean future, if we really want it, is in Thorium for now and nobody wants that.
Such a waste and complete boondoggle. In ten years we will have vast wastelands of solar and wind farms. Most people have no understanding of energy. They just cannot conceive the true process and what goes into acquiring and producing it.
Excellent Kipling reference!
The Green New Deal is a pipe dream.
its only “squandering” when the money doesn’t go to the elite class and its minions......somebody’s made off with billions..
Texas as a whole has a problem with increasing grid unreliability and problems meeting demand because they poured so much money into wind and solar while shutting down coal fire plants.
Have you done a cost/benefit analysis on that? Just curious!
Fabulous Post! This story needs to go VIRAL.. in Blue Srates, as well!
Thx for the ping!
I hope people will pay attention, but I don’t have much faith in “people” any more. LOL!
My Panhandle is infested with wind generators and electric bills are ever increasing to pay for said windmills whirl gigs that are selling said power to the grid for areas other than ours.
My hometown. This fat ass algore fanboi clown is on the shortlist for removal.
The Austin area is infested with Kalifornitards.
Same along the I-20 route from Stanton to Abilene. Ugly expensive and ineffective. But...follow the money for the reason they’re everywhere. it’s certainly not to make people’s lives better. Just the opposite.
We switched to those new energy saving light bulbs. Zero savings. In fact, the electrical usage has gone up. Nothing has been changed, no new appliances or anything but the light bulbs.
Yeah, the only advantage I see in those bulbs is that they may last years...may not! They’re overpriced. I now get the cheap bulbs from Big Lots. No practical difference IMO!
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