Posted on 12/11/2018 2:35:23 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Liberals will never drop unrealistic expectations of renewables.
Basically.
When liberals and progressives gain power.
You will freeze hungry in the dark.
Unless part of the anointed 1% overlords
Liberals will never understand reality. When they do, they cease being liberals.
Actually 17% is a lot more than I would have guessed. I suspect that other renewables includes hydro. Wind and solar are probably about 1% together.
Why do the liberals oppose nuclear? Nuclear does not produce any of the dreaded green house gases.
Ping.
I live in Georgetown, TX. Full renewables. And now fully screwed:
Georgetown officials will try to renegotiate the citys renewable energy contracts and find other cost cuts after a late-summer drop in energy market prices lost the citys utility $6.84 million.
That percentage may well represent nameplate capacity at full load, not actual power delivered on average.
What ever happened to the Thorium reactor enthusiasm?
I think you’re right. Even this pro “green” article says only 8% in 2017. https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1495871/wind-solar-produce-8-us-generation-2017
8% or 17% doesn’t really matter because of the general rule that electricity has to be consumed near where it’s produced. That’s easy enough for a power plant running on coal or gas, which can be easily built anywhere. Wind and solar are trickier because you need just the right conditions (sun, wind, land) to produce. So that’s great for areas that have all three but not so great for the rest of us who are not near those wind and solar energy producing areas.
Most efficient use of solar would be 1000s of little self generating and self renewing solar panels that store energy in their support structure......mmmmm that would be a tree->wood.....what a concept....just charged my outside wood burning furnace....hickory and maple....
Iowa, Kansas, and Okla are up of 30% windpower. Texas is 18%
The prices will continue to fall and renewables will be implemented elsewhere.
The price of offshore wind has fallen so the north and mid atlantic states will be installing windmills there over the next 10 years.
The article points out that 29 states have renewable electricity standards. Iowa's first renewable standard was in 1984. In Texas it was 1999. New York cranked theirs up to 50% in 2015 based on installing the offshore turbines
Same with the car batteries. They were over $1000/kwh in 2010 and are now $200/kwh and will continue to fall.
Because of exactly that and it works. The entire debate is a scam. You cannot appease a liberal, the entire scam is simply a degrowth movement in the name of “environmentalism.”
Me too, I can’t believe its actually that high.
I seriously doubt that it's that high.
You’re correct. Here’s a link to the official statistics. Hydro is the largest single renewable source of electricity. Wind and solar together total 7.6% of the sources for electric generation.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
This is why they don’t teach math in school anymore - to keep the commie’s useful idiots useful.
I’ve told many a dummy that green bs can only meet 10-20% of the demand. Blank stares of mathematical incomprehension.
But see what happens when a power outage extends beyond 24 hours.
Imagine only having power 3-6 days a month.
Hydro and wood - both renewable.
Sensible people would take a look at how that worked out for Spain when they tried going 100% green. Then again, no one has ever accused the libtards of being sensible.
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