{"id":56011,"date":"2015-11-06T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56011"},"modified":"2015-11-06T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T12:16:21","slug":"unintended-but-inevitable-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56011","title":{"rendered":"Unintended But Inevitable Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain is ahead of the US in shifting to green power generated by wind and solar panels, the cost of which is subsidized by government.<\/p>\n<p>Except when the sun doesn\u2019t shine and the wind doesn\u2019t blow; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/may\/06\/uk-energy-bill-subsidies-driving-boom-in-polluting-diesel-farms\">then they need back-up power<\/a> provided by diesel generator farms, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/may\/06\/uk-energy-bill-subsidies-driving-boom-in-polluting-diesel-farms\">cost of which also is \u00a0subsidized \u00a0by government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to talk to your pals on the Met Council about requesting additional funding now to establish diesel backup generator farms alongside the solar panel farms, to keep the lights on when the sun goes down and the wind goes calm. No point waiting for a crisis to re-invent the wheel in Minnesota when we can see clearly how it\u2019s already being done in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know that they used to have these&#8230;things that utilized huge generators and economies of scale to generate massive amounts of power, powered by gas, oil, coal, or even nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00a0<em>were\u00a0<\/em>those?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Britain is ahead of the US in shifting to green power generated by wind and solar panels, the cost of which is subsidized by government. Except when the sun doesn\u2019t shine and the wind doesn\u2019t blow; then they need back-up power provided by diesel generator farms, the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56013,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56011\/revisions\/56013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}