Renewable Resources

Steve Hayward has discovered an interesting fact— our renewable energy sources are NOT now economically competitive with natural-gas power plants. According to a study he points to, solar panels will only be at parity at the end of this decade ... and wind farms, only 50% to the way there by this same date. This is despite the fact that we have been promised that we have already achieved this goal. See: Powerline blog post.

Then, Steve and John Hinderaker point out all the costs that are NOT included in these calculations: additional transmission lines required, scrapping costs after these sources’ relatively short useful lives ... and the baseline energy plants required to back up these two renewables when they are not producing.

To this I would like to add ... how much cheaper natural gas would be in New England if Liz Warren would permit a pipeline to be built here ... and the much lower crop and forestry yields we will get when CO2 is reduced back to starvation levels for all our plant life.

STAND UP FOR CO2!