Renewables’ growing price advantage over fossil fuels paves way for industry dominance

The Hill ^ | December 10, 2023 | Saul Elbe

[con-surf-ative]

Dream on. Total propaganda, as any sane person knows.

[revivaljoe]

This is the biggest pile of manure that I have ever seen - besides renewables are not reliable 24/7 - ask Texas

[mewzilla]

https://thehill.com/author/saul-elbein/

Explains a lot.

[chrisser]

Did the author practice by extolling the success of Bidenomics prior to this craptacular screed?

[qaz123]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/10/27/wind-farm-getting-razed-for-expansion-of-coal-mine-n2615092

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2022/03/17/esb-to-dismantle-70-turbines-at-landslide-wind-farm-that-cost-state-millions-in-fines/

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209986572/offshore-wind-energy-new-jersey-orsted

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/politics/solar-energy-china-investigation-climate/index.html

Could go on all day, if I wanted to.

[Justa]

First mandate no use of fossil fuels.

Next introduce ‘renewable’ fuel sources. Which are mostly sourced by and produced using fossil fuels.

Voila. 200 years of production efficiencies are eliminated by government mandates in order to deliver highly inefficient energy at exorbitant costs to the economy. The new and longer delivery systems for government mandated energy production offer generous opportunities for graft, extortion, corruption.

Consumers lose. Crooks win.

[AAABEST]

Tell the imbecile to try even simple things like running a well pump or freezer via “renewables.”

Like EVs and windmills et al, efficiency and practicality is sub-par. Expensive gear is only “renewable” until it wears out or breaks.

[Robert DeLong]

It’s definitely the latter.

[rktman]

😳. Oh, okay, we’ll jump right on it. NOT! Fookin’ idjits

[lurk]

Propaganda.

Renewables can only survive on government life support.

[Neverlift]

If you really thinks about it, windmills are not renewable energy. Is there a wind recycling plant I don’t know about? Once you convert the wind into electricity the power from the wind is gone.

Petroleum, if it really comes from fossils, would be renewable. Just takes a real long time.

[Eleutheria5]

Elbe better stay off those ‘shrooms. They’re making him delusional.

[Vaduz]

Indeed the story has more BS then any mushroom farm has.

[sphinx]

Give me enough subsidy dollars and I can make slaves on treadmills the “low cost” option.

[Robert357]

Well said, the real problem with most renewable comparisons is that they are done on a kW or kWh basis as opposed to an apples to oranges basis. The critical missing element is usually something that is called “ancillary services.” This is the part of the electric power system that provides reliability when things go bad and is only provided by “dispatchable” resources, that most renewables are not (with the exception of hydro).

[LibertarianLiz]

All right, my hubby is asking if someone is actually doing this. If so, where? He can’t believe anyone would do something this insane.

[Celtic Conservative]

Hey, “The Hill”:

Stop blowing sunshine up my kilt.

CC

[Parmy]

That would be good. Then when it is too hot or too cold they can’t work and we will be much better off. (sarcasm)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

” those subsidies are not scalable”

Sure they are. The government will just print another $2 trillion every year to keep the subsidies flowing.

I wish I was joking.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And be sold with three chest freezers full of cricket meat.