[CanaGuy]

Wind and Solar power generating systems will NEVER replace even ONE gas/oil/nuclear plant. The simple reason being that when there is no wind or sunshine, the gas/oil/nuclear power stations must be available to carry 100% of the load in their absence. Do you all understand this?

In fact, Solar and Wind cannot even REDUCE the oil/gas/nuclear consumption when sun and wind are available, because the gas/oil/nuclear plants must still be operating on backup and switchable at a moment's notice to fill in the gap when the sun and wind fail. The dynamos in a standby situation must always be spinning and it takes energy to do it.

This is the sad truth of the intermittent, random and unreliable sources that are solar and wind. Do you all understand this? As the article says, it is pure folly.

[pb929]

You could generate power with wind and solar, store it, and use the stored power when the sun/wind are not available.

I don’t think wind or solar will ever be our primary sources of power but they can be used to replace some reliance on coal/nat gas until the real alternatives are developed.