Posted on 05/03/2024 7:37:50 AM PDT by george76
In principle, I have no problem with solar or wind power to try and make them work, so they have a place in energy generation. Having said that, I want honesty so they can be placed where they work and not where they don’t work.
The RATs are going to keep screwing around with our power plants and they’ll have to start putting up their wind farms on Capitol Hill so they can catch the breeze coming from the wind bags in Congress.
It doesn’t take genius to figure out that the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’ alway shine. But coal, wood and natural gas always burn.
Originally thought by whom?
And what about nuclear?
I know the Liberals are against nuclear power. But nuclear produces zero of the dreaded greenhouse gases. So based on the liberals own criteria, of avoiding emissions , nuclear should be something that they would approve of
Liberals are deliberately clueless. They will probably blame the intermittent wind problem on Climate Change. So let’s pour even more billions of dollars into fighting that nonexistent problem.
Samuel L. Jackson says "Check out the big brains on those guys!" *
* G-rated version
I think they're coming around on that. Oliver Stone recently put out a documentary called "Nuclear Now". I didn't see any overt liberal reason....except to fight Climate change. But mostly it seemed to be a realization that the antinuclearpower movemen was complete scam.
Butt, butt, butt.........
Germany puts out very complete data in graphs showing its daily (IIRC maybe even hourly) energy consumption by type. I followed it a few winters ago. Not pretty.
“ In principle, I have no problem with solar or wind power to try and make them work, so they have a place in energy generation. Having said that, I want honesty so they can be placed where they work and not where they don’t work.”
The dirty little secret is that green energy is a huge scam. I have seen solar used effectively in places where it’s economically infeasible to use commercial power. One very effective use of solar is to power cathodic protection rectifiers on cross country pipelines.
Most of the large solar arrays and wind farms are being subsidized by the government. Once the subsidies end, there will be a significant jump in electricity prices.
Solar only seems to work on rooftops, very localized, and wind power seems useful to me as a means to charge an electric generator and not as a means of power in itself.
I read about a company that uses solar power to pump liquid up a hill. Then, at night, the liquid falls down the hill to generate electricity.
I think wind power is only useful as a passive generator of power for electric generators. Put a couple on the farm and use them once a month or so. Save yourself a months worth of electricity over the year.
Good post
It’s not just the low wind extreme that’s worthless. Loads of wind energy over the plains with all those tornadoes last weekend. But the windmills can’t collect any of that!
There is a small city beside my city named Spruce Grove.
I can only guess that the topography around the city forms a funnel into the city, because it could be blowing 1 mph to the east of the city but it blows through the city at 50 mph. It seems a good candidate to put up a few windmills around town.
“Once the subsidies end, there will be a significant jump in electricity prices.”
But our taxes will be lowered, correct?
Power should come from a mixture of the most efficient methods throughout the day. This could include solar, battery, traditional power plants, and I guess, some wind.
Anyone thinking that one single source is going to get the job done doesn’t understand how much demand fluctuates during a day.
X gigawatts of capacity is a theoretical number good if the wind blows consistently always and no clouds ever cover the sun. Reality is no consistency and actuality is much less than capacity. Intermittency is the rule and toxic pollution is immense when windmills collapse and solar cells wear out. But at least a lot of those pesky whales and raptors get exterminated.
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