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Red Paint
Posted 11/25/2024 07:22 (#10981717 - in reply to #10981255)
Subject: RE: Solar. Carbon credtis, RFS, EV incentives


SW “Ohia”
Kooiker - 11/24/2024 19:31

sand85 - 11/24/2024 18:54

 No cheaper way to make electricity right now.



The problem with wind and solar isn't cost to operate.   Its having power available when you want/need it.

When you add the cost of the needed standby generation to back up the wind and solar at 100% of capacity, they are no longer cheap.     

Yeah, I know, there's a battery break through just around the corner that won't need govt subsidies to make the solar/wind and battery combo cost effective....   let me know when it actually happens.


While were in the mood for removing govt regulations & red tape, lets axe the Obama era war on coal.    There's no cheaper BTU's on the planet.



Coal is not cheap, or easy. In the modern environment with cheap fracked natural gas as honest competition, it’s plain uneconomical. That’s why we’ve seen so many coal plants close and utilities invest in greenfield gas turbine construction. The price they can market power at is uneconomical and due to a lack of investment by generation asset owners, unreliable. Government regulation is irrelevant. Tour a coal plant and a gas plant if you want to comprehend.

Experienced this first hand as the four major coal power plants in this region have closed in favor of gas turbine plants constructed out in the shale gas areas. Unfortunately is sure is hard on the local communities with essentially no other job prospects. But nobody cares about a few hundred hillbillies.







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