If you had half a brain, you'd realise that that explanation would only work if *nowhere* was building these things.
If you had half a brain you'd see a credit and debt bubble when you see one.
But the article was about the fact that the US is not, while Europe and China *are*.
Europe is broke and in recession and running around coal mines burning the dirtiest form of coal, lignite, imaginable. China is building coal and nuclear power stations like they're going out of fashion. I suggest getting outside to soak in stone, cold reality.
I assure you, the more than half of my electricity that's coming from wind right now is very real, as it is for everyone else here in the UK. Just annoying that we pay for it at the marginal rate, set by sodding gas. One day CfDs will dominate, and most of the excess money will come back to us, but that day is not today.
I can assure you that that is not happening because wind turbines provide very intermittent power disproportionate to their investment. Pretty much all your power needs are coming from gas, nuclear or coal, and if you're believing those carefully selected snapshotted graphs that supposedly tell us that all of our power is coming from renewables, sorry, you've been conned. If you're in the UK I suggest getting yourself out of the fantasy world you are living in.
Then why do so many companies build it, even without subsidy?
It's amazing what you can do with unlimited amounts of credit. You seem to be unfamiliar with our financial system. Tick, tock.
The high demand was because most residences in our state rely on heat pumps that become increasingly inefficient as temperatures get farther below freezing - on a day when many people were home for the holiday and wanting to heat their homes continually.
Ahhhh, heat pumps. The green energy saviour that is going to save us all from climate destruction which then burn electricity like it's going out of fashion. The stupidity is absolutely off the scale.
You've got one out of three: Someone spends too much time listening to Fox and Friends. Coal and gas and nuclear still supply 75% of US electricity. Many coal plants weren't shut-down, they just sold all their output to one business, such as crytpo-miners. The few that did shut-down, usually did so, because they would run at a loss, or required so much refurbishment, it was not a competitive investment against the increasing demand for green energy.
Too much time listening to CNN. There is no demand for 'green' energy and none of it is commercially viable, hence blackouts. The only green energy that works is nuclear power, and that hasn't been invested in.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Hint: Poland has problems running their coal plants, because guess where they used to buy the fuel.
Hint: Poland's problems have nothing to do with their coal powerstations and everything to do with their geopolitical stupidity. Do try to engage the brain into first gear.
Yet Duke says that they lost 2.5 *gigawatts* of coal production and another 2.5 *gigwatts* of natural gas electric production.
That's Megawatts vs Gigawatts. You ill-informed retarded fucking asshole.
I'm not sure what this load of verbal diarrhoea is supposed to be telling us because they haven't invested in the power generation they need, haven't invested in gas or coal production capacity they need, and certainly not nuclear. When they have problems renewables are nowhere to be seen, and yes, renewables generate a minuscule amount of power for the investment they require which would have been well spent on the power generation capacity they need that works.
It's time to come up with solutions and admit where this has gone wrong, you utterly retarded, brainless fucking moron. Blackouts are the cold hard truth of failure.
The other line moves faster.
