Unintended But Inevitable Consequences

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’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow; then they need back-up power provided by diesel generator farms, the cost of which also is  subsidized  by government.

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’s already being done in Britain.

Joe Doakes

I know that they used to have these…things that utilized huge generators and economies of scale to generate massive amounts of power, powered by gas, oil, coal, or even nuclear power.

What were those?

 

One thought on “Unintended But Inevitable Consequences

  1. interestingly the very best places to put solar and wind farms is on arable land – the marginal land has to be preserved to provide wildlife habitat (i.e. a place for the coyotes to hang out when they aren’t scavenging the dead birds killed by the windmills).
    To provide electricity on a scale to fully power a metropolis like the twin cities would require taking 10s of thousands of acres of arable land out of production. So the progressive position is instead of burning our crops (corn for ethanol) we simply stop growing crops altogether. Less cropland means higher food prices, which means a greatly accelerated slide of the middle class into poverty. The progressive hatred for humanity is fathomless.

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