USA Today: Wind and solar power too often leave Americans out in the cold when severe weather hits
Turbines freeze and solar panels don't get sufficient sunlight during harsh conditions. So even though we're building more solar and wind capacity, we can't trust it to supply enough energy in winter.
One of my recent articles was published by USA Today on January 29. I’ve included the first few paragraphs to get you started. The remainder of the article is on the USA Today website (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/01/29/wind-solar-power-renewable-energy-winter-weather/72338118007/).
Feel free to share it around. Let’s get more discussions about the importance of reliable and affordable electricity and energy to human health and well-being started.
Jason
Forget whiteouts. Winter storms are increasingly causing blackouts, which put lives at risk.
This grim reality is an unintended, yet predictable, consequence of America’s mad dash to reach net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. Governments and utilities are trying to meet this goal by rapidly replacing reliable electricity sources with wind and solar.
Turns out, wind turbines freeze and solar panels often don’t get sufficient sunlight during harsh winter conditions. So even though we’re building more solar and wind capacity, we can’t trust it to supply enough electricity in the worst conditions.
The resulting shortages couldn’t come at a worse time − when people are desperate to heat their homes. Yet this crisis will become only more common and painful.
The latest proof came from massive winter storms that hit much of the United States and Canada in recent weeks. Power outages spread from the East Coast to the Upper Midwest and beyond.
Many of the outages were caused by downed electric distribution lines. Yet, in other cases, freezing temperatures and heavy cloud cover led to lulls in wind and solar generation, making it difficult to keep the lights and heat on.
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The rest of the article is on the USA Today website (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/01/29/wind-solar-power-renewable-energy-winter-weather/72338118007/)
Just a wonderful article! Kudos! I wonder in amazement that a MSM outlet was willing to publish it. The world gave up the hopelessly dilute, hopelessly fickle, hopelessly non-dispatchable power of wind a century ago as not fit for purpose. Solar is guaranteed to NOT work at all for a good portion of the 24 hours that society needs to function. How could the "elites" and the "experts" possibly have concluded that the idiocies of wind and solar could possibly power a modern society? They could because they are out of touch with the real world and they think anything can be achieved with unlimited political power of the state.
We have an entire elite leadership class, and an entire elite academic class, and an entire elite intellect class, and an entire elite corporate leadership class, and an entire elite "professional" science class, which have all drunk the Climate Kool Aid and become zealous believers in their own group think.
So...if you are the 1% in America...those with a post-graduate degree and an income of $150,000+...
https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1749790409797046589
Turns out the "Elite" really does hate you.
New poll finds the globalist one percent have political views unrecognizable to regular Americans:
They think people have too much freedom and the government too little power.
They think teachers -- not parents -- should raise kids.
They want to ration meat and electricity and ban air conditioning and gasoline cars.
2024 will have a record number of elections around the world. I'd guess there's no country where voters actually agree with the globalists who rule them. It could get interesting.
Also, this Wall Street Journal Article covers the same survey.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/potomac-watch-strassel/wsj-opinion-the-them-vs-us-election/F701A181-7E5F-42F4-B3EA-DA0780F07D9E