The Renewable Energy Reality Check

[Benton D Struckcheon]

14. Read it, and will await the 2nd article

The assumptions are seriously outdated. I've already put up a thread (right in this group, so it will be very easy to find) that shows two things, using only the figures published by the EIA:

1 - Currently, the fastest growing sources of energy are both "green": natural gas and wind.
2 - The reason has to do with cost: both are the lowest cost choices in their respective classes: dispatchable and not (basically boils down to renewable and not.) Wind, by the way, is lower cost than coal.

Given these two publicly available facts, it's easy to project that both of these will be the choices for the future. Wind, by the way, already produces a lot more electricity than oil. Its single year growth almost matches what is generated by oil.
The article doesn't address the very simple fact that utilities will always opt, in the aggregate, for the lowest cost alternatives. It's called capitalism.