From Frank Lasee

A long thoughtful read. They make a good point. If using 100% renewable then we need battery backup for 5 days for when the wind hardly blows or the sun is blocked by clouds and rain. Biggest battery in the world at Hornsdale AU stores only enough energy for a small city for 1 hour. CA isn’t even near 100% and now has very expensive electricity and regular rolling blackouts. If wind and solar is so cheap why does it need to be subsidized? The earth has been gently warming since 1850 long before additional CO2.

Tim adds:

We are nowhere near "renewable" technology. If wind and solar are ever to be an effective energy source they will have to work in a fundamentally different way, in my opinion. I think windmills and solar cells and battery storage will never pan out as a major way to power a modern economy. I think that is the whole point. Those pushing them know this, and WANT a return to a romanticized pastoral paradise with a major population reduction, and this is the Trojan Horse to get people to accept their own culling.

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