Reply #16: Why would you think that wind generation is insufficient?

[plumbob]

In Texas, we're still at the beginning of wind farms, and there were several days last fall that wind provided 25% of the entire electricity demand for the state. And that was when nearly a quarter were shut down due to lack of enough transmission lines to carry the load.

Those lines are being built now.

Why anyone would choose antique methods like coal, oil, gas, or nuclear to heat water, I cannot guess. They're all dirty, dangerous, and inefficient. The reason these are preferred by industry is that they're not scalable down, which wind will be eventually. That means the end of the need for large corporate structures to produce electricity.

I can't wait.