Report: Biggest loser of 2016? Big Green!!

[skookerasbil]

Stephen Moore: 2016's Biggest Loser — Big Green‎


"Fortunately, we learned on Election Day that voters aren't as alarmed as the alarmists are. Almost none of the voters that I met in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana or Michigan had anything but contempt for the climate change fanatics. They view this as another attempt by Washington to run their lives and completely ignore their economic plight in favor of grandiose dreams of the government somehow changing the weather.

The surprise of this election is that Democrats were surprised by the mass voter rejection of the radical climate-change agenda. Every poll for the last five years, at least, has shown that climate change barely registers as a leading concern of American voters. Jobs and the economy were always issues Nos. 1 and 2, and global warming was usually close to last on the list.

A 2015 Fox News poll found that only 3% of Americans believed that climate change was "the most important issue facing America today."


Stephen Moore: 2016's Biggest Loser — Big Green


The alarmists still aren't getting it.............but they will!!!

lol........and speaking of green................




Hey my Photobucket is crapping out...........can somebody throw up a nice big bumpy cucumber for me??? You guys know I love the antagonistic icing on the cake eye poke!!!

 

[Old Rocks]

Republished March 2, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to correct an error in the text.

Electric generating facilities expect to add more than 26 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale generating capacity to the power grid during 2016. Most of these additions come from three resources: solar (9.5 GW), natural gas (8.0 GW), and wind (6.8 GW), which together make up 93% of total additions. If actual additions ultimately reflect these plans, 2016 will be the first year in which utility-scale solar additions exceed additions from any other single energy source.

These values reflect reported additions and retirements, not model projections. This year, as is the case in many years, expected capacity additions in December are much higher than in any other month. This typically happens because of the expiration of federal, state, or local tax credits on December 31, or because of how respondents complete the survey. Many projects expected to begin operation sometime in 2016 are conservatively estimated for a December completion date.

Solar. Planned utility-scale solar additions total 9.5 GW in 2016, the most of any single energy source. This level of additions is substantially higher than the 3.1 GW of solar added in 2015 and would be more than the total solar installations for the past three years combined (9.4 GW during 2013-15). The top five states where solar capacity is being added are California (3.9 GW), North Carolina (1.1 GW), Nevada (0.9 GW), Texas (0.7 GW), and Georgia (0.7 GW). These values reflect utility-scale solar capacity additions, and do not include any distributed generation (i.e., rooftop solar). In 2015, nearly 2 GW of distributed solar photovoltaic capacity was added. The same federal tax credit incentives for distributed solar installations available in 2015 are available in 2016.

Natural gas. Most capacity additions over the past 20 years have been natural gas-fired units. About 8 GW is expected to be added this year, slightly above the 7.8 GW average annual additions over the previous five years. Four states plan to add more than 1 GW of natural gas-fired capacity this year: Pennsylvania (1.6 GW), Virginia (1.4 GW), Florida (1.3 GW), and Texas (1.1 GW).

Wind. Additions of wind capacity are expected to be slightly lower than in 2015, when 8.1 GW of wind made up by far the largest portion of 2015 capacity additions. Wind capacity additions in 2016 are expected to total 6.8 GW. Most wind additions are found in the Plains region between the Dakotas and Minnesota, south to Texas and eastern New Mexico.

Nuclear. Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear facility in southeastern Tennessee, with a summer nameplate capacity of 1.1 GW, is expected to begin commercial operation in June 2016. When Watts Bar 2 comes online, it will be the first new nuclear reactor brought online in the United States in 20 years. The most recent reactor to come online was Watts Bar 1 in May 1996.

Now if that is losing for the renewables, I would like a few losers like that in my portfolio.

 

[skookerasbil]

The green profiteers will always be around and are sitting home mocking the climate change obsessed........but apply renewables to the big picture, its not only rather unimpressive, COMBINED it generates only a tiny sliver of energy in our electric grid. And Im talking tiny..........

Here is how you have to look at it............

If I some innovative piece of merchandise I start to market and after a year, I am seeing growth rates of my product at 134%, I might be tempted to take a bow!! But.........the only real matter of importance is, where was I at when I started and more importantly, where am I at relative to the market related to the same product? In other words........lofty statistics can be exceedingly misleading unless you look at the big picture.


Wendel might want a bigger dick and take some magic pill and have his dick grow 75% overnight. w0w.........the ladies would be impressed!! But if Wendels dick was an inch long to start with.........poor Bob would still have a small dick and the ladies would be laughing their asses off!!! Bob's dick would have to grow about 1000% for the ladies to care!!

The exact same analogy applies to renewable energy if you take a look........lofty stats, but in the bigger picture, fossil fuels dominate renewables to the point where basically, in 2017, they are irrelevant. And in 2040? Will still be irrelevant........in the big picture...........as fossil fuels will still be dominating the pie. ( 90% to 10% s0ns!! )