More than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011

[kristopher]

29. ???

As I said, if your reference to shutting down nuclear en masse was in response to the link in post 3 then your reply was a red herring since that is an example of how the transition to a carbon free infrastructure will shake out with ever increasing renewable penetration.

That is why I asked you to relate how the interplay of these technologies will unfold as we move away from carbon. Why don't you lay out how the hoped for transition will occur? Since you say that I'm trying to "defend" natural gas" explain how preserving large scale centralized thermal (nuclear and coal) is preferable to restructuring our energy machine (the grid) to make it hospitable to renewables while also getting immediate reductions in emissions.

I'd really love to hear your vision of how that works.