Posted on 12/11/2018 2:35:23 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Our electric company keeps promising to use nothing but wind energy in the near future, and that it will be cheaper. Yeah, right.
L8r
The wind they are talking about is that which they are blowing up your shorts.
“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.”
No F-ing way that solar and wind produce 17% of US electricity ... i bet it’s less than even 1% ...
“Liberals will never drop unrealistic expectations of renewables.”
There is a simple, safe, and cost-effective solution. Nuclear power.
Coal power is undesirable. Coal has a huge impact on the environment, and on people’s health. “Clean coal” is an oxymoron, and is likely unachievable without excessive cost.
All coal generation should be replaced with nuclear, and then nuclear should be built out as the sole means of increasing baseline grid capacity.
Next-gen nuclear from ThorCon and other innovators addresses all the shortcomings of Gen IV designs, including removing the necessity for water cooling - while providing electricity for less than ten cents per KWH.
Nuclear power is the win/win/win that could take one contentious issue, climate change, off the table. In fact, lowering CO2 emissions worldwide can’t happen without a massive nuclear power buildout. The climate alarmists aren’t serious unless they admit this obvious fact - and so far that isn’t happening.
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