You cherry picked what the National Academy of Sciences wrote to make claims that are in direct opposition to their findings. You even went so far as to create out of thin air a fictional NAS report that you pretend no one can find but you.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112711618 and
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11277405
You cherry picked what the California Energy Commission wrote to make claims that are in direct opposition to their finding.
You originally claimed
"The California Energy Commission released a study that contradicts the contention that renewables are capable of totally replacing both nuclear and fossil fuels"
You then extracted a short passage in the paper that appears to support your statement while omitting the context. Your cherry pocked quote:
"If electric generation is predominantly intermittent renewable power, using natural gas to firm the power would likely result in greenhouse gas emissions that would alone would exceed the 2050 target for the entire economy."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x296568#296587 post #5
Now, here is the very next sentence; you remember it, the one that you chose not to share?
"Thus, development of a high percentage of intermittent resources would require concomitant development of zero-emisions load balancing (ZELB) to avoid these emissions and maintain system reliability. ZELB might be achieved with a combination of energy storage devices and smart-grid technology."
And this is what it looked like in the report when you made your choice:
If electric generation is predominantly intermittent renewable power, using natural gas to firm the power would likely result in greenhouse gas emissions that would alone would exceed the 2050 target for the entire economy. Thus, development of a high percentage of intermittent resources would require concomitant development of zero-emisions load balancing (ZELB) to avoid these emissions and maintain system reliability. ZELB might be achieved with a combination of energy storage devices and smart-grid technology.
Those posts and many, many, many others that you've made can be construed as nothing but a deliberate effort to deceive.
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