Big Green want work without fossil fuels

Vijay Jayaraj:

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There is a dark secret that neither the Biden administration nor the mainstream media are willing to discuss or acknowledge.  That is the fact that renewable power generating technologies like wind and solar depend on fossil fuels.

Grid Reality: Renewables Useless without Fossil Fuels

Solar panels cannot produce power at night or under significant cloud cover.  Likewise, wind turbines cannot produce power when there is no wind, and even those in the wind hotspots (where there is higher potential to generate energy because of optimum wind speed) are efficient only during certain seasons.

The wind and solar industries plan to compensate for these drawbacks by using backup power.  But the currently available backup solutions — including batteries, open-cycle natural gas (or diesel) turbines, hydroelectric units — are incapable of supporting wind and solar in a large-scale grid network.  So fossil fuel plants — and nuclear plants — remain the only reliable backup solutions to maintain grid supply when large wind and solar networks fail to generate electricity.

A classic example of this renewable inefficiency and unreliability was observed earlier this month in Germany, where the 110 gigawatts of installed capacity of renewables completely failed to meet energy demand.

Besides being unable to meet demand, the generation was highly intermittent, and unpredictably so, thus exerting excess pressure on fossil fuel plants to meet demand.

When neither wind nor solar is operational, the impact of volatility in power generation will be passed on to customers, resulting in blackouts and increased cost of power.

We Do Not Need a Repeat of California

Such was the case during the recent California fires when Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged that renewable energy was responsible for the blackouts in the state.

"We cannot sacrifice reliability as we move on," he said.  "We failed to predict and plan these shortages.  And that's simply unacceptable."

The equation is quite simple in California: 36% of California's power comes from renewables, and when they fail — during fires, heat waves, and every night — the state switches on the natural gas (fossil fuel) plants to meet the demand.

But even natural gas plants are being closed, and the state ends up importing electricity from neighbors that rely on fossil fuels to provide it.

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Japan recently had blackouts caused by a seven-foot snowfall which blocked solar generation and shutdown the windmills. Putting aside the fact that the seven-foot snowfall suggests the climate change scare is overrated.  A few years ago proponents of climate change were arguing that we would never see snow again.  Now consider what would happen to people in the midwest or other snow regions if they were hit with extreme weather,  Many would find themselves freezing in the dark.  There are obviously other forms of extreme weather besides large snowfalls.  Tornadoes and hurricanes can also put wind and solar out of commission.

The fact is that alternative energy projects now are supplemental energy sources that require good weather and sunlight.  They become inoperable just when people need them the most.

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