Posted on 01/08/2020 6:46:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The purveyors of solar energy are working overtime to spin the now official failure of the Crescent Dunes thermal solar plant in central Nevada. The contracts to purchase the electricity from the constantly broken plant will be voided. Bloomberg Businessweek claims that Crescent Dunes was obsoleted by technological advances in the form of photovoltaic based solar plants. That is nonsense and misses the whole point of the Crescent Dunes project. It also misses the reality that all utility-scale solar is a failure — not marginal, not growing into being practical, but a total and complete failure.
The scalable forms of renewable energy are wind and solar. Hydro is severely limited by most state laws that define renewable energy — not because hydro is not renewable, but because it is not politically correct. Dams are not politically acceptable to the kayakers and big thinkers at the Sierra Club. Nevada is wind poor but sunshine rich. So for Nevada, solar is the only route to energy nirvana.
Nevada has a law requiring that 50% of the electricity be from renewable sources by 2030. That law was passed by the Nevada Legislature. No doubt they were influenced by the state’s utility, NV Energy, owned by the Warren Buffett organization. Tom Steyer is a California billionaire and global warming fanatic. Currently, he is running for president. Steyer bankrolled an initiative to put a 50% renewable electricity requirement by 2030 into the Nevada state constitution.
The final vote on the constitutional amendment will be in November 2020. Presumably, renewable energy must be frozen into the constitution so that the investors in solar energy can be protected against the possibility that the Legislature will come to its senses and repeal the renewable energy quota.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wind and solar will always be extremely wasteful in terms of land use. There are probably cases where that doesn’t matter, but it is nonetheless so. They take up hundreds or thousands of acres where on a postage stamp you can produce several times the energy. In this case, 100 MW projected (and never attained) on 300 acres, and for comparison a plant I’m familiar with produces 280 on 10 acres. Wind farms, of course, go on for thousands of acres, chopping up birds as they go.
Another solar plant I’m familiar with produces 250 MW on 2000 acres of a 4000 acre site. They are limited to half the acreage so that wildlife can pass through. Again, 250 on several thousand acres versus 280 on 10.
It sort of looks “cool” and futuristic; however, the reality is that taxpayers were ripped off supporting the boondoggle. This being ripped off by these frauds is getting old.
I’m still accepting new investors in my high-tech, super-green startup venture. It’s called SunWindDeliveranceYay!
SuWinDelYa, get in now!
It’s a Billion Dollar Air Fryer.
How much in campaign contributions was received and to who ?
Why? Officially because “save da Erf!”.
Actually, because profit for some and the desire to push global socialism for others (ie watermelons).
Utility scale and subsidized, and location location location. For an investor the study shouts "free money!"
But thanks for posting the Lazard analysis, looks like it's worth reviewing.
Did I ping you to this one ?
No, it was a different one, I think.
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