Solar and Wind Below Fossil Fuel Prices

Solar and Wind Plunging Below Fossil Fuel Prices | Ramez Naam: "... Inside of a decade, in most of the US and most of the world, solar or wind will be cheaper than coal or natural gas on an instantaneous, non-stored basis. This trend appears inexorable. And so long as there is demand for more energy at the hours at which solar and wind are delivering (which is the case right now), then the situation is great. The long-term obstacle, beyond perhaps 20% of grid penetration, is ‘dispatchability’ – the ability to issue the precise amount of energy needed, when it’s needed – perhaps hours after the energy is generated (for example, at night, when the sun isn’t shining, or during still hours of the day), or perhaps just minutes later. That means storage..."


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Power the World with Wind, Water and Sunlight (video)

Mark A. Ruffalo, Marco Krapels and Mark Z. Jacobson: Power the World with Wind, Water and Sunlight - YouTube: ""
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Bill Gates on nuclear power, climate change, wind, solar

Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview | Culture News | Rolling Stone: "Nuclear power has failed to fulfill its promises for a variety of economic and technical reasons for 40 years. Why continue investing in nuclear power instead of, say, cheap solar and energy storage? Well, we have a real problem, and so we should pursue many solutions to the problem. Even the Manhattan Project pursued both the plutonium bomb and the uranium bomb – and both worked! Intermittent energy sources [like wind and solar] . . . yeah, you can crank those up, depending on the quality of the grid and the nature of your demand. You can scale that up 20 percent, 30 percent and, in some cases, even 40 percent. But when it comes to climate change, that's not interesting. You're talking about needing factors of, like, 90 percent." (read more at link above)

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Solar and Wind Replacing Fossil Fuels

Merkel’s Green Push Sinks German Coal Profits: Energy - Bloomberg: "...The continent’s fivefold increase in solar and wind power in the past decade flooded electricity grids, displacing fossil fuels so fast that coal- and gas-dependent utility RWE AG lost money in 2013 for the first time since 1949...." (read more at the link above)

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Energy and Big Government

RealClearMarkets - Obama Lays Out the Case for Big Government: " . . . alternative energy, such as solar, wind, and biofuels, is more expensive than fossil fuels, especially natural gas, of which America has a 200-year supply due to hydrofracturing. Costly energy acts as a tax on the economy and reduces economic activity and employment. In 2015, generating a megawatt-hour of electricity with natural gas will cost between $49 and $79, according to estimates from the Electric Power Research Institute. That same quantity of energy produced from onshore wind will cost between $75 and $138, while generating it with solar photovoltaic will cost at least $242 and as much as $455. Mr. Obama says he doesn't want us to get left behind other countries in the alternative energy area. But Spain and Germany have halted subsidies for solar power because of its high cost. China makes wind turbines and solar panels to export to America, but less than two percent of Chinese electricity is generated by wind and solar. . . . "

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