Posted on 07/24/2022 12:06:20 PM PDT by Hojczyk
This essay by David Stevenson of the Caesar Rodney Institute Center for Energy & Environment appeared in May, but I just ran across it today. It analyzes data from the PJM electrical grid, America’s largest, between 2019 and 2021.
This comparison of actual regional grid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2019 and 2021 shows increased use of wind and solar did not reduce emissions. Wind and solar electric generation are actually poor technologies no one would use without permanent government mandates and massive subsidies and taxes that are adding $1 billion a year in power cost. They are also unreliable, non-recyclable, have negative environmental impacts, have shorter productive life spans than alternative power sources, and take up a lot of ground. If it doesn’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions why are we using wind and solar?
The intermittency of wind and solar power generation means that other, reliable sources have to cycle up and down, repeatedly. This decreases efficiency and increases emissions. Thus:
Coal emissions should have fallen the same 7% generation did, but only fell about half as much as power plant efficiency fell.
Overall, CO2 emissions declined only 0.8%. As I understand the data, this suggests that CO2 emissions would have declined more if there had been no wind or solar on the PJM grid.
This lack of CO2 reduction by wind and solar comes at a high cost. Tax payers and electric customers provide expensive subsidies totaling almost $2 billion in the 2020-21 period, or $1 billion a year.
Wind and solar energy are entirely pointless, if you don’t consider the fact that enormous amounts of money are changing hands. You and I pay more in electricity rates and taxes, while the Communist Chinese and a handful of Americans and Europeans make out like bandits.
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
I believe the loss of efficiency in conventional power plants and increased emissions mimic what the Germans found about two years ago or so.
This is only about saving the erf for the weak minded. It is more about making money for the over lords.
The only thing renewable about renewable is the replacement cost and subsidies.
You know I speak the truth then.
The only profitable experience was really not CBM. It was in the Four Corners area where the Mesa Verde is interbedded with coal and the Mesa Verde is slightly over pressured. Basically, you orchestrate a blowout and blow the blocky coal out allowing the sandstone to collapse. It is called a Gob Hole completion for which you get Mesa Verde production that you call CBM and reap the tax credits as well.
“Conservatives need to STOP acknowledging CO2 has anything to do with the climate.
There is NO evidence that increases or decreases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels has any effect on what the heck the weather does.”
Amen to that! If I remember correctly, CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere. Without it, the Earth would be a dead piece of rock orbiting the sun. In high school biology, I remember a lesson about CO2 being the “miracle molecule” that sustains life.
They keep telling the electric utilities that they need to modernize and just figure it out, they are spending millions on algorithms and artificial intelligence
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