Posted on 04/30/2022 2:26:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many ideas considered radical a decade ago now enjoy mainstream support in the environmentalist movement. Demands to "decarbonize" electricity production are proceeding apace despite the limitations of generating electricity reliably and affordably from renewable sources alone.
The technology to store energy simply hasn't kept pace with our ability to generate it, leaving renewable sources like wind and solar handicapped by their inherent intermittency. Consequently, renewables provide only a fraction of Nebraska's energy needs and find economic viability only through a regime of heavy government subsidy.
Despite this technological deficiency, clean energy advocates still insist we decommission "dirty" sources sooner rather than later. Cities and regions who have done so have encountered grave disruptions in production and delivery, resulting in rolling blackouts, brownouts, and at times grid failure under heavy demand.
This is not entirely by accident.
Artificial scarcity raises prices, which in turn reduces consumption, a prime goal of the modern environmental movement. When combined with mandated lifestyle changes and forced energy retrofits to homes and businesses, renewables advocates claim that the lower production capabilities of clean energy won't be a problem, being offset by lower demand from consumers.
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Is Nebraska toast?
We follow Leftist enviro-extremist policy and we will be freezing in the dark, mark my words. Start fighting this crap now.
It is real simple to achieve. Just get rid of 90% of the people.
“The Sea Change Foundation is presently the subject of congressional inquiry, suspected of channeling hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian interests (including the Russian government) to environmental activists in the United States to convince Americans to abandon reliable energy sources in the name of climate change. The goal is to hamstring America’s economy with high energy prices, an unreliable power supply, and unpredictable economic outcomes.”
I wish the media would make up their minds. Are the Russians trying to STOP the ‘Green Movement’, so as to sell their energy to the West, or trying to HELP the ‘Green Movement’, so as to destroy Western economies. Or both.
My guess is neither, but why not blame them when we all know it’s the Ukraine supporters (Soros, DNC, EU, WEF, etc.) who are likely doing this crap, as this is how they play ball on just about everything else.
Next time someone carries on about wind power, I’m going to tell them to check our wind mill grave yards.
Typical archeologist answer.
Now enjoy mainstream support in the environmentalist movement huh.
The fraction of electricity generated by wind is 30%. Yes 3/10 a fraction. What they are referring to is all energy use including transportation fuels and gas for heating. In that case the fraction is smaller. Out of 900 trillion BTU of annual energy consumption in NE, 24 trillion are generated by wind or 2.6%. That's more like what we think of as a fraction.
that is why all i hear is PSA’s from the cal energy comm to reduce power between 4pm and 9pm due to loss of solar/wind power.. ummm the peak hrs when people are home from work.
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