Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: UK firm's solar power breakthrough could make world's most efficient panels by 2021 [View all]Finishline42
(1,091 posts)He's been on here for probably 20 years saying the same thing. That wind and solar are scams. Famous for throwing up a page of numbers to prove his point. Once claimed that we would run out of aluminum if we built enough windmills to matter (completely ignoring the billions of beer and pop cans made every year).
Also ignoring that Germany has attained 50% renewables. England has basically shut down their coal plants. Wind produces close to 20% of electricity for Texas, up from nothing 20 yrs ago.
The main aspect of wind and solar is that while they don't work all the time, when they do their power is the cheapest on the grid. And when they are producing there are coal, gas and nuclear plants that sit idle. When those plants are sitting idle, it increase the overhead to operate them, making them more expensive to operate. Which justifies the purchase of more wind and solar which just seems to get cheaper all the time. Now that's a feedback loop that is beneficial to the environment.