Sunday, March 26, 2023

No wind

About 20 years ago when talk of wind and solar became popular many people and many countries immediately jumped on the band wagon without investigating the pros and cons. The result was that Germany abandoned its nuclear in favor of wind and solar without realizing that they didn't have wind and sun. It ended up adding carbon. In California solar works because they have sun. Germany has spent more on green than California and California gets ten time more energy. Geography is important but many don't think about. Wind is great on the great plains from North Dakota down to Texas and solar is great in the southwest but each of those location are many miles from the large metro areas of the east coast. The only reason that people use solar north of the Mason Dixon line is because of subsidies. They are negative from a carbon standpoint meaning they use up more carbon producing the solar panels than they save.

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