What Jim said - it's all emotion and politics. Most coal plants are being replaced or converted to gas here in OK, due to Devon energy owning the GOP here. Thorium nuclear is the only power source that makes sense today (or will once someone in power sees the light). Meanwhile, there's good money to be made installing wind and solar.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Supposedly this wind and solar is supposed to make up the difference. > How is that possible? > > It isn't. Fuel-powered plants are on-demand, and nothing else (even > hydro, to a point) is. > They're playing a shell game. Wind and solar can be useful, and even > necessary. But > not sufficient. > > There are days when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine. But > power demands > are more continuous than that, so fossil/nuclear must be deployed to take > up the slack. > Along with hydro draw-downs. (Grand Coulee dam, one of our largest, is > also just about > the best equipped of such for that purpose, courtesy of the Banks Lake > auxiliary reservoir.) > > If they're decommissioning a coal plant, perhaps because it's old and in > need of replacement > anyway, then nationwide there's probably a new coal or gas plant going in > somewhere else > to make up for it. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Quality of life is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing you are wearing." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Werner Von Braun "In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it." -- Richard W. Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
