> Supposedly this wind and solar is supposed to make up the difference. How is > that possible?
It isn't. Fuel-powered plants are on-demand, and nothing else (even hydro, to a point) is. They're playing a shell game. Wind and solar can be useful, and even necessary. But not sufficient. There are days when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine. But power demands are more continuous than that, so fossil/nuclear must be deployed to take up the slack. Along with hydro draw-downs. (Grand Coulee dam, one of our largest, is also just about the best equipped of such for that purpose, courtesy of the Banks Lake auxiliary reservoir.) If they're decommissioning a coal plant, perhaps because it's old and in need of replacement anyway, then nationwide there's probably a new coal or gas plant going in somewhere else to make up for it. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
