The nuclear notes write is a nuclear acolyte that has the same problem perverting the scientific acumen of creationist - everything is filtered through a prism of religious dogma. For the creationist everything starts with a young earth. For the nuclear acolyte everything starts with the requirement that nuclear MUST be Chosen.
Here is the original article:
Another Voice: New York can replace fossil, nuclear energy by 2030
on May 16, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By Larry Beahan
Professor Robert Howarth has done the numbers. His plan to have New York State off fossil fuels and powered totally by renewable ones is published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy. Read it at www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/NewYork WWSEnPolicy.pdf.
He shows that by 2030, New York State could supply itself with energy entirely from wind, water and sun. He calls for the total replacement of fossil and nuclear energy with electricity from these renewables.
Conversion to all-electric would improve the efficiency of power-consuming devices by 37 percent. In his plan, energy sources would be 50 percent onshore and offshore windmills and 38 percent concentrated and dispersed solar panels, with the rest a mix of wave devices, tidal turbines, hydroelectric and geothermal plants.
He deals with the problem of variability of wind and sun by building over-capacity and storing the excess energy. It would be stored both where it is produced and where it is used, in batteries, thermal media, pumped water, compressed air, fly wheels, in the batteries of our new fleet of all electric vehicles and in the form of hydrogen for burning where high temperatures are needed.
Howarth’s peer-reviewed numbers...
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130516/OPINION/130519387/1074
Bringing the power generation closer to and under the control of the end user is NOT adding complexity. Redundancy yes. Complexity no.
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