Sentences with phrase «from unreliable wind»

Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.

And if it was possible (and I repeat it is not) the influence from the unreliable wind or solar generators would cause instability in the power grid system as they continually change without any warning.

Not exact matches

We need to abandon this crazy and costly policy of spending untold millions on littering the countryside with useless wind turbines and solar panels and moving from a sensible energy policy of having cheap and reliable forms of energy to a policy of having unreliable and costly energy.

Electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, which can be intermittent and unreliable, could then be easily stored and distributed as hydrogen fuel.

Wind turbines generate small amounts of expensive, unreliable electricity from gargantuan installations on thousands of acres.

The one, teensy, weensy problem with the wind industry's «save the planet» pitch is that 100 % of the capacity from intermittent and unreliable wind power has to be backed - up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generators running in the background and burning fuel ALL the time — and, therefore, increases CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

Fossil fuels take a naturally dirty environment and make it clean; they take a naturally dangerous climate and make it safer; the sun and wind are intermittent, unreliable fuels that always need backup from a reliable source of energy — usually fossil fuels; and, fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world.

Additionally «nuclear maneuvers» (reductions), of 897 gigawatt hours added about $ 60 million during surplus baseload periods, caused mainly by (unreliable) intermittent power generation from wind.

The U.K. president for German energy giant E.ON stated wind power requires 90 % backup from gas or coal plants due to its unreliable and intermittent nature.

It may be that revenues will come entirely from capacity markets — payments for being ready to produce power on demand — but unreliable wind and solar will lose that competition to reliable conventional generators.

The authors have failed to demonstrate that it is reasonable, technically feasible or economically viable to attempt to replace 59 % of U.S. coal - fired electricity generation with hundreds of thousands of windmills that are intermittent, unpredictable and unreliable in an attempt to increase wind energyís contribution to U.S. electricity supply from less than 1/10 of 1 % to 30 %.

Big Oil is also Big Gas (the two fossil fuels often come from the same wells) and gas is the ideal fuel for backing up unreliable wind and solar power.

Since wind power is unreliable it requires additional backup power from other generation sources, such as gas - fired generation, which — you guessed it — increases air emissions.

Because cheap auto insurance policies are great, but purchasing them from unreliable or fickle insurers could wind up being far more expensive down the road.