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?
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
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.
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!
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.