It is imperative for the public to understand the impossibility of a transition to wind and solar power.
Everybody needs to know the ABC of intermittent energy and the President should issue an executive order for all weather reports to indicate the amount of wind and solar in the local grid at the time.
That will indicate how often the lights will go out at night when there is less coal in the system.
People can then confront their local representatives and tell them to defy the vested interests that are driving the policies of both parties and vote responsibly on energy issues or they will not be in the House after the next election.
The ABC OF INTERMITTENT SOLAR AND WIND POWER
WHY WIND CAN’T REPLACE COAL
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
So the transition to wind and solar power can’t proceed with current storage technology.
Wind droughts happen.
Many people assume that the wind is always blowing somewhere not far away but there are periods of very little wind power, approaching zero, across the whole of the SE Australia for periods up to 3 days.
BECOME WIND LITERATE : LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD FOR YOUR LOCAL GRID
Damn. Thanks for the update, but we were hopingfor an end to this madness. As long as wind and solar are touted as the "answer to climate change," there's no real incentive for anyone to develop new sources of energy (and storage) which are cheap, reliable, and don't cause irreparable harm to creatures of sea and sky, soil ....
Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, but the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply to become aware of wind droughts, wind lulls, known as Dunkelflautes in Europe.
It is imperative for the public to understand the impossibility of a transition to wind and solar power.
Everybody needs to know the ABC of intermittent energy and the President should issue an executive order for all weather reports to indicate the amount of wind and solar in the local grid at the time.
That will indicate how often the lights will go out at night when there is less coal in the system.
People can then confront their local representatives and tell them to defy the vested interests that are driving the policies of both parties and vote responsibly on energy issues or they will not be in the House after the next election.
The ABC OF INTERMITTENT SOLAR AND WIND POWER
WHY WIND CAN’T REPLACE COAL
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
So the transition to wind and solar power can’t proceed with current storage technology.
Wind droughts happen.
Many people assume that the wind is always blowing somewhere not far away but there are periods of very little wind power, approaching zero, across the whole of the SE Australia for periods up to 3 days.
BECOME WIND LITERATE : LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD FOR YOUR LOCAL GRID
THIS IS SOUTH EAST AUSTRALIA
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
Damn. Thanks for the update, but we were hopingfor an end to this madness. As long as wind and solar are touted as the "answer to climate change," there's no real incentive for anyone to develop new sources of energy (and storage) which are cheap, reliable, and don't cause irreparable harm to creatures of sea and sky, soil ....
THIS IS TEXAS (ERCOT)
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
At 2 am, not surprisingly, there was no solar.
Only 7% wind.
Good luck with the transition to intermittent energy!
Demand two inquiries, one into the failure of the meteorologists to warn everyone about wind droughts.
And another to find out why there was no due diligence by the wind industry to assess the reliability of the wind supply.
The elephant in the net zero room is the wind droughts or dunkelflautes that Australian investigators documented over a decade ago.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, but the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply to become aware of wind droughts, wind lulls, known as Dunkelflautes in Europe.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts