11-28-2017, 10:46 PM
(11-27-2017, 05:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: " the argument from the fossil fuel industry that green power cannot stand alone no longer holds water.
"It seems like at these prices, and that's what's really amazing about how low we're getting... is that, yeah, it can compete, even though battery technology is expensive these days," says Shaffer. "You can out-compete coal and natural gas at these levels.""
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric...-1.4417616
Climate science deniers like kinser are still proclaiming that green power can't work because it's intermittant. Deniers are simply people that refuse to keep up with the facts, in order to hang onto right-wing ideology. It's that simple.
There is chemical storage -- that excess power for a short time can be absorbed into an endothermic reaction , let us say breaking down a substance) that in recombination releases energy.
The fossil fuel energy sets energy policies in some states.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.