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Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Hushed-up fossil fuel QUESTIONS Msg# 1194003
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I find it mind-boggling that these things are not more obvious to those in charge of converting the world from our current, consistent fossil fuels to the new, highly inconsistent wind and solar power. This inconsistency, and thus the need for the old power generators--that they keep shutting down--to be kept online, is obvious enough that a third grader should understand it.
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Mark (& ALL) Here's another example you're not likely to hear from the media. There's been several reports of how household electric costs are being pushed higher, by the additions of renewables like wind and solar. And their purpose is to show that when all costs are considered in the analysis the answer is YES -- household electric bills are being driven higher by wind & solar. Here's a chart from the earlier, 2018 report: Image Title: Renewable power= high cost  Reliance on renewable energy sources has almost tripled people's energy costs in Germany & Denmark and about doubled in Australia, Italy, Spain, etc.
In addition to charts, there's reports and lectures analyzing how the indirect costs of renewables have been ignored by the warmists –thus substantially understating the renewables costs. A first example in one state, Texas, needed to double it transmission costs when recently adding solar & wind projects. Those costs grew by $9 billion. Next example is the variability factor. When the wind power in Texas has dropped from one day’s 48% down to 14%, it becomes necessary to ramp up the back up fossil generators to stabilize against grid failure, again at added cost.
Another report explained in this way:. In order to reduce bills, a new wind or solar project would have to force an old one to be retired— otherwise there are two sets of costs to cover. But with wind & solar power, you can’t let anything generators leave the market, because of interruptions, when no winds are blowing, no sun from cloud obstruction, or during the night hours A recent update of the 2018 chart confirms that the same rising cost pattern is still occurring.  Chart shows countries with the highest household electric bills are Denmark-(DNK), Germany-(DEU) & Great Britain-(GBR) with electric costs between $0.48 /kwh and $0.54 /kwh. Quite a difference compared to our Maryland rates of $0.16 /kwh. In those high cost nations wind & solar are generating from 10% to 24% of supply. Yet those renewables here are generating only about 3% of our power needs. Also there's high electric bills showing up for countries like Italy (ITL), Belgium (BEL) Spain (ESP), etc. with about 7% to 15% renewables This recent chart from Feb 2023 affirms the same cost patterns of an earlier 2018 analysis -- Renewable energy is pushing electric rates very high, even doubling and tripling them. Source: WUWT, Dr. Mike Jonas Click Here The chart, and its earlier companion, both debunk the frequent claims by warming activists that wind & solar are lowering household electric bills. They are not. Those false claims come using incomplete data, by ignoring total household bills, and looking only at a fraction of wind or solar costs. Sorry warming activists. You claims of Wind and solar being cheaper are now proven wrong. |
