http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...-good-idea.php
Check out the video.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...-good-idea.php
Check out the video.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I'm for wind energy, but we don't need to pay for it, let private company's do it.
Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.
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I have no intent of engaging in a debate but I will offer one comment---that "essay" has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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Why, if wind and solar installations have become markedly cheaper, are those locales which have installed large commercial amounts of it seeing the retail prices dramatically rising? The Forbes article below attempts to answer that question —
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#2c0fea8a1dc6
This is essentially the issue with which Dave takes issue. The short answer is that no matter how much solar or wind energy is produced, it is an intermittent source and often makes too much when not needed or too little when needed and must be supplemented by the same conventional sources the solar & wind is intended to replace...so double the production capacity is actually required rather than one source replaced. It is more complicated than that, so read the equations.
Until the excess power can to stored in commercial quantity, solar & wind energy is not an economic competitor of conventional sources.
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A question that gives pause: If Solar And Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/...-so-expensive/
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Because unlike fossil, they have to have a backup simply because they can not make enough juice all of the time to supply everyone. Just like electric cars, not feasible for the majority of people because they have to go a lot further than the range of the vehicle.
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A lot of the cars especially Tesla are doing really well. My old boss gets 276 miles on a charge up with his Tesla but he still has to charge it up with the expensive electric from his house. We have hydro supplying some of that though. Not far up the road we have the Sumpter nuclear plant and there's another nuclear plant some where close. I don't think they have been closed down yet. Another place, it was a SCE&G plant was in the middle of construction after ten years and billions of dollars spent and they closed it down, I think that was here.Originally Posted by TxMusky
This is your mind on drugs!
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