A simple reason why net zero is impossible
Grid scale storage at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is impossibly expensive.
Grid scale storage at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is impossibly expensive.
NZRC stands in opposition to leftist “NetZero” advocates who seek to tear down energy sources that work, while pushing energy sources, such as intermittent wind and solar, that are not up to the challenge of powering the world's needs.
To add insult to injury, the owner of the 49-acre property, where the thousands of solar panels were to be installed, changed his mind and came out in opposition to the project.
Electricity ratepayers are getting crushed in Europe and American states that copy Europe's energy mistakes.
Perhaps the BOM just thought no one would notice, and “it’s for a good cause, eh?” We can’t have the punters thinking Sydney was cooler today than in 1883.
It is doubtful that Bundleflower Solar would even pursue the project in Pontiac (or anyplace else) without the prospect of Energy Tax Credits under state law, as well as the federal subsidy for solar developers, known as the Investment Tax Credit (ITC).
The looming threat of numerous blackouts is their fault.
The amount of storage needed to make renewables reliable is so huge that even if the cost dropped fantastically we still could not afford it.
The reality is that wind and solar are subsidized by seventy percent.
South Australia survived the big scary sunny day yesterday, but had to shut off solar power and throw all those sacred green electrons into a thousand open circuits.
BY ROBERT BRYCE: The punchline here is obvious: the hype about major expansions of renewable-energy capacity ignores first principles
That wind and solar are cheaper is at best a half truth, more like an eighth truth.
BY STEVE MILLER: Supplying 40% of the nation’s energy from the sun by 2035 means covering millions of acres of forest and desert with solar panel installations fenced off like prisons.
BY ROBERT BRYCE: Rejections of Big Solar are exceeding Big Wind rejections.
It is impossible for solar to generate reliably.