Coal keeps lights on at COP26 as low wind strikes again

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2. Redundant systems require two sets of O&M fixed costs.

These costs are there whether the plant is operating or it is shut down because the wind happens to be blowing enough for a few hours.

If the coal plant were not there, perhaps the COP26 meeting could be held by candlelight, using petroleum based waxes. Good idea?

The point of the remark however is NOT about money. It's about reliability.

The wind industry is not an alternative to coal power despite all the lies to the contrary about that being said here and elsewhere.

This is because the wind is not attached to energy demand; it blows whenever the fuck it feels like it.

It would laughable to assume that we should make all of our energy supplies entirely dependent on the weather at the precise time we are actively destabilizing the weather at an ever accelerating rate because we keep carrying on about how great so called "renewable energy" is were it not so tragic. The steel for those turbines, by the way, is made using coke made by heating coal with coal burning fires.

But look, don't worry, be happy. It's not like people who can afford a shit load of batteries made out of the slave labor of Congolese child miners are going to suffer.

It's poor people who will suffer, because the reactionary "wind energy will save us" fantasy's costs will fall on them.