Sentences with phrase «unreliable wind -lsb-»

Instead, billions have been squandered on unreliable wind and solar power which can only ever be a supplement for gas, rather than a free - standing source of energy.

«The reason global warming science has become a political issue is political leaders on the left seek to «solve» global warming by converting our economy into one that relies on expensive and unreliable wind and solar power,» Taylor writes.

Nevertheless, the CPP will cause states, taxpayers, and energy consumers to get stiffed with huge cost burdens, including capital - intensive, decades - long transitions needed for adding expensive and unreliable wind and solar infrastructures, coal plant retirements and upgrades, restructured transmission lines, and new natural gas pipelines.

I'm not persuaded because, as explained in other posts, a megawatt of unpredictable, unreliable wind capacity has less value than a megawatt of predictable, reliable natural gas or coal capacity.

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.

Natural gas, specifically shale gas, is essential for powering backup generators for unreliable wind and solar installations.

There would, of course, be little need for negawatts if it weren't for unreliable wind and solar power plants being added to the grid.

As in past years, Mr. Gore used his marathon internet broadcast to promote unreliable wind and solar power, sources that are many times more expensive than coal.

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.

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

Finkel's report promised Australia's very own Enron, among others, the opportunity to rape and pillage in a power market with an effective 42 % RET, dominated by intermittent and unreliable wind -LSB-...]

(March 5, 2011) According to the CEO of the UK's electricity grid operator, consumers are going to have to make lifestyle changes to adapt to unreliable wind power.

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.

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.

It also ignores the problem of adding large amounts of unreliable wind to the grid that could require adding battery or other storage at an additional cost.

Ontario contracted for far too much intermittent and unreliable wind and solar power creating a domino effect the increased our costs of generation.

Heavily subsidized, sporadic, unreliable wind and solar combined provide less than 3 % of all U.S. energy.

They push expensive, unreliable wind power while doing all they can to stop hydroelectric, carbon fuels, and nuclear power.

Australia's power pricing and supply calamity has a single, proximate cause: massively subsidised, intermittent, unreliable wind and solar power.

Back - up generators must be ready at all times to balance the unreliable wind generation.

Not exact matches

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

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.

Today, wind and solar power are considered too unreliable to be used on a mass scale, unable to supply energy when the sunsets or the wind stops.

In his report, published in the October 1975 issue of Weatherwise, Vonnegut explained that using a cannon to fire a dead chicken into a tornado — a technique described in 1842 and 1890 — was unreliable because it is impossible to tell whether the cannon or the wind plucked the feathers.

Now the western climate alarmists are so damn dumb that they think that somehow wind has got more reliable after 400 years of getting rid of wind power for the very reasons of it's abysmally low and completely unpredictable and unreliable power output in what was an industrializing society.

wind and solar do not replace fossil fuel generation, as that has to be maintained at and close to previous levels to cater for power needs when the unreliable, unpredictable wind and solar generation systems go off line or fail or just don't produce much power.

AUSTRALIA»S once key economic advantage and proud boast of having the cheapest power prices in the world has been sacrificed at the altar of climate change by its politicians» obsession with global warming theory and subsequent mad rush into large - scale unreliable «energy» sources — wind and solar.

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

Thankfully the shale boom stifled such US fuel poverty that is seen throughout Europe and now Australia thanks to «unreliable» energy — wind and solar — subsidised at 110 — 400 % in order to compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.

2) Subsidies and mandates that force increased amounts of unreliable sources of electricity on the grid, such as wind and solar power, and undermine the normal operation of reliable power plants.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

In his February 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research (IER), Fisher attacked wind and solar power as «unreliable» sources of electricity.

Forcing by regulation or taxation the developed world to eviscerate itself uselessly investing in unreliable solar or wind power, at the same time driving all production industries, and jobs toward the third world, makes sense only to international corporations and banking systems.

for the Institute for Energy Research (IER), Fisher attacked wind and solar power as «unreliable» sources of electricity.

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

Wind is unreliable and may not be available when you need it most.

A hundred - plus years ago, wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy — and now, after hundreds of billions of wasted tax and consumer dollars, we find that (surprise!)

Wind power is intermittent, unreliable and hard to predict.

But it will also raise new challenges because renewable energy can be unreliable; it's not always possible to predict when the sun will shine or the wind will blow.

Wind farms are very costly, The capital cost is high and the produce unreliable energy.

Due to the inherent unreliable performance of wind power and political opposition to nuclear power plants, Germany has been forced to return to coal to generate electricity.

Ian Macfarlane, the Coalition energy spokesman and likely future Energy Minister, today told the Australian clean energy industry that it needed to look beyond wind and solar as renewable energy sources, because they were unreliable and too expensive.

You never were able to defend the IDIOCY of UNRELIABLE, INTERMITTENT, ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTUCTIVE wind power.

I just don't want the Federal government wasting my tax dollars on unreliable and obsolete wind and solar schemes.

Only political will and agenda driven funding can keep wind and solar afloat, because the world needs solid RELIABLE, REGULAR supply systems, not an unreliable erratic subsidy driven mess.

Vineyard Wind proposes to build and operate a 400 - 800 megawatt offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric gWind proposes to build and operate a 400 - 800 megawatt offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric gwind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric grid.

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

However, there is much proof that development of sprawling, unreliable, subsidized, mandated industrial wind factories has been vastly detrimental across the nation and the world.