Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel

[bripat9643]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

 

[Silhouette]

They were using PV and wind. It's far more reliable to use the good old steam turbine. In their case they could've used linear solar thermal to drive steam turbines. Someone sold them on "outdated green energy". Much simpler to focus a parabolic mirror on the sun and reflect it onto a tube filled with 300 degree celsius oil to heat exchangers and then that steam runs the turbine.

Maybe someone should tell them to join with the 21st century?

 

[FJO]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

This would surprise only politically correct idiots.

 

[rdean]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

Is there a point beyond the tiny one on top of your incredibly tiny head?

In U.S., there are twice as many solar workers as coal miners

Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers, and has added 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil and gas pipeline construction industry (10,529) and the crude petroleum and natural gas extraction industry (8,688) did combined, according to the Solar Foundation.

One out of every 78 new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months were created by the solar industry, representing nearly 1.3 percent of all jobs created in the country. Solar companies surveyed for the fifth annual census plan to add another 36,000 employees this year.

 

[bripat9643]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

Is there a point beyond the tiny one on top of your incredibly tiny head?

In U.S., there are twice as many solar workers as coal miners

Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers, and has added 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil and gas pipeline construction industry (10,529) and the crude petroleum and natural gas extraction industry (8,688) did combined, according to the Solar Foundation.

One out of every 78 new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months were created by the solar industry, representing nearly 1.3 percent of all jobs created in the country. Solar companies surveyed for the fifth annual census plan to add another 36,000 employees this year.

How does that prove solar energy is reliable? All it proves is that the federal government is spending billions of dollars on solar.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Clean energy can't exist on it's own.. whether it be subsides or oil, it needs both to exist.

It's a scam.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

Is there a point beyond the tiny one on top of your incredibly tiny head?

In U.S., there are twice as many solar workers as coal miners

Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers, and has added 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil and gas pipeline construction industry (10,529) and the crude petroleum and natural gas extraction industry (8,688) did combined, according to the Solar Foundation.

One out of every 78 new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months were created by the solar industry, representing nearly 1.3 percent of all jobs created in the country. Solar companies surveyed for the fifth annual census plan to add another 36,000 employees this year.

All the hot air you spew on this site should cost you a ton of carbon credits. You need to hug more trees

 

[TheOldSchool]

Bripat desperately wants to make sure the middle east remains strong and indispensible to the rest of the world

 

[Rustic]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

 

[Rustic]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

Is there a point beyond the tiny one on top of your incredibly tiny head?

In U.S., there are twice as many solar workers as coal miners

Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers, and has added 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil and gas pipeline construction industry (10,529) and the crude petroleum and natural gas extraction industry (8,688) did combined, according to the Solar Foundation.

One out of every 78 new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months were created by the solar industry, representing nearly 1.3 percent of all jobs created in the country. Solar companies surveyed for the fifth annual census plan to add another 36,000 employees this year.

No one saying there's anything bad about that, rest the world just doesn't give a shit though. And most of these green people don't walk their talk, but yet they expect everyone else to do the green thing. The right way would be a choice for everybody -any and all of the above. Anything else is a bunch of bullshit by control freaks…
If someone wants to drive 100 miles to gallon car fine, if someone wants to drive a 2 mile to the gallon car equally fine. Fuck this government control shit and it's Village mentality. LOL

 

[bripat9643]

Bripat desperately wants to make sure the middle east remains strong and indispensible to the rest of the world

It's not a matter of what I want. Wind and solar are a joke. They simply aren't an adequate substitute for fossil fuels.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Bripat desperately wants to make sure the middle east remains strong and indispensible to the rest of the world

It's not a matter of what I want. Wind and solar are a joke. They simply aren't an adequate substitute for fossil fuels.

They will be. They might already be if assholes like you weren't trying to slow them down and prop up OPEC.

 

[Rustic]

Bripat desperately wants to make sure the middle east remains strong and indispensible to the rest of the world

It's not a matter of what I want. Wind and solar are a joke. They simply aren't an adequate substitute for fossil fuels.

They will be. They might already be if assholes like you weren't trying to slow them down and prop up OPEC.

I say all the above, obviously wind and solar or not up to par yet. Use what's cheapest, most reliable and most available - fuck this village mentality control freak shit…

 

[SassyIrishLass]

100% "green" industry is a myth. Nothing more and nothing less

 

[GHook93]

Here was a perfect test of "green energy," and it failed:

Islands Trying To Use 100% Green Energy Failed, Went Back To Diesel​

The islands of Tasmania and El Hierro tried to power their economies with 100 percent green energy, but both islands eventually went back to diesel generators after suffering reliability problems and soaring energy costs.

These islands may be on opposite sides of the Earth, but they became poster children for environmentalists campaigning for countries to ditch fossil fuels. The fact remains that Tasmania and El Hierro saw their energy sectors become costly failures after going green, according to the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER) published Thursday.

“One of the biggest reasons that natural gas, oil, and coal are the world’s most-used energy resources is because they are incredibly reliable,” Daniel Simmons, vice president for policy at IER, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “By the same token, wind struggles to compete with conventional fuels because it is inherently unreliable.​

Is there a point beyond the tiny one on top of your incredibly tiny head?

In U.S., there are twice as many solar workers as coal miners

Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers, and has added 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil and gas pipeline construction industry (10,529) and the crude petroleum and natural gas extraction industry (8,688) did combined, according to the Solar Foundation.

One out of every 78 new jobs created in the U.S. over the past 12 months were created by the solar industry, representing nearly 1.3 percent of all jobs created in the country. Solar companies surveyed for the fifth annual census plan to add another 36,000 employees this year.

Lol you are a utter fool. Coal makes up 42% of our stationary energy sources, while solar makes up o my 0.04:%

Yet you brag solar employees (wastes) more people! You really are a mental midget

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/l...QRAU7MLX3We5Ok9n5pOalmdLXoDVPyYpjPfL4yzNBFxhO

 

[Arianrhod]

How does that prove solar energy is reliable?

Just when I think no one who can tie their own shoes can possibly post anything more stupid, you surprise.

See, there's this big ball of fire up in the sky. We call it "the sun." It's been reliable for about 4.5 billion years so far. No reason to expect it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow morning, same as it always is.

 

[bripat9643]

How does that prove solar energy is reliable?

Just when I think no one who can tie their own shoes can possibly post anything more stupid, you surprise.

See, there's this big ball of fire up in the sky. We call it "the sun." It's been reliable for about 4.5 billion years so far. No reason to expect it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow morning, same as it always is.

So what happens on a cloudy day in January, you fucking numskull?

 

[Rustic]

How does that prove solar energy is reliable?

Just when I think no one who can tie their own shoes can possibly post anything more stupid, you surprise.

See, there's this big ball of fire up in the sky. We call it "the sun." It's been reliable for about 4.5 billion years so far. No reason to expect it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow morning, same as it always is.

So what happens on a cloudy day in January, you fucking numskull?

Toxic batteries

 

[bripat9643]

Bripat desperately wants to make sure the middle east remains strong and indispensible to the rest of the world

It's not a matter of what I want. Wind and solar are a joke. They simply aren't an adequate substitute for fossil fuels.

They will be. They might already be if assholes like you weren't trying to slow them down and prop up OPEC.

Then lets wait until they are before we force the world to convert to them.

 

[Arianrhod]

How does that prove solar energy is reliable?

Just when I think no one who can tie their own shoes can possibly post anything more stupid, you surprise.

See, there's this big ball of fire up in the sky. We call it "the sun." It's been reliable for about 4.5 billion years so far. No reason to expect it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow morning, same as it always is.

So what happens on a cloudy day in January...

January is midsummer in Tasmania. Still, that's when you switch to wind power or wave power or hydro power or a host of other choices.

In addition, you store excess power from whatever source you rely on. There are these magical things called batteries. You should look into those.

Any country that relies on only one source of renewables is, as others have pointed out, short-sighted.