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In October, power plants generating 530 megawatts of electricity came online in the United States. And every single electron put on the grid came from the sun, according to a report released today.
Its possible to make too much of the fact that solar energy was the sole source of new electricity capacity in US that month. After all, the completion dates of power plants can be random. Thats particularly true for complex, multibillion-dollar, fossil fuel power stations that can take years to build and are subject to oversight by state regulators.
However, it is also possible to be too dismissive of this energy shift and the fact that solar supplanted coal and natural gas in October. Its not a huge amount of power at peak output 530 megawatts is what a medium-sized natural gas-fired power plant would generate. But its a clear sign that solar is no longer a niche play especially when you consider that the Octobers numbers dont include the installation of roof photovoltaic panels on homes and businesses. In California alone, for instance, 19.5 megawatts of rooftop solar was installed in the territories of the states three big utilities just in October.
There is no place in our nation that we can build a new Grand Coulee. But we have many thousands of square miles of residential and commercial roofs that solar can be installed on. At a profit to the business or the home owner.
Buy solar = get decades of energy. No one has to dig a hole or pump shit out of the ground with solar. Just clean and reliable energy!
...sure, as long as it's heavily subsided by taxpayers.There is no place in our nation that we can build a new Grand Coulee. But we have many thousands of square miles of residential and commercial roofs that solar can be installed on. At a profit to the business or the home owner.
There is no place in our nation that we can build a new Grand Coulee. But we have many thousands of square miles of residential and commercial roofs that solar can be installed on. At a profit to the business or the home owner.
Solar is endless and for billions of years
Coal
Oil
Natural gas
are all set and slowly running out. Solar, wind, wave and geo-thermal is dependable!
There is no place in our nation that we can build a new Grand Coulee. But we have many thousands of square miles of residential and commercial roofs that solar can be installed on. At a profit to the business or the home owner.
Solar is endless and for billions of years
Matthew said:Coal
Oil
Natural gas
are all set and slowly running out. Solar, wind, wave and geo-thermal is dependable!
Solar and wind will become the major players as we get grid scale batteries in play.
The EIA states that hydrocarbons will remain the predominant world energy source for decades to come. And hydrocarbons are much more than just fuel. They are the base feedstock for materials that can not be manufactured from the sun or the wind.
I am kind of hoping humanity will be around tens of thousands of generations 
The EIA states that hydrocarbons will remain the predominant world energy source for decades to come. And hydrocarbons are much more than just fuel. They are the base feedstock for materials that can not be manufactured from the sun or the wind.
Maybe we should think about saving some for those materials????
The last time I checked we'd have to go all the way to Titan to find more.
The EIA states that hydrocarbons will remain the predominant world energy source for decades to come. And hydrocarbons are much more than just fuel. They are the base feedstock for materials that can not be manufactured from the sun or the wind.
Maybe we should think about saving some for those materials????
The last time I checked we'd have to go all the way to Titan to find more.
Yes save "those materials", yet the solution you propose, advocate, Green Energy uses "those materials" at a higher rate, Green Energy takes the worlds largest amount of Hydrocarbons to produce a fraction of the energy than if you produced energy directly from Hydrocarbons.
That is the irony, Green Energy is the opposite of Green, Green Energy consumes natural resources such as oil at a higher rate, Green Energy increases demand for oil and oil by-products.
So the consumer not only subsidizes Green Energy but also must compete with Green Energy for a dwindling percentage of Earths Natural Resources.
The EIA states that hydrocarbons will remain the predominant world energy source for decades to come. And hydrocarbons are much more than just fuel. They are the base feedstock for materials that can not be manufactured from the sun or the wind.
Maybe we should think about saving some for those materials????
The last time I checked we'd have to go all the way to Titan to find more.
Yes save "those materials", yet the solution you propose, advocate, Green Energy uses "those materials" at a higher rate, Green Energy takes the worlds largest amount of Hydrocarbons to produce a fraction of the energy than if you produced energy directly from Hydrocarbons.
That is the irony, Green Energy is the opposite of Green, Green Energy consumes natural resources such as oil at a higher rate, Green Energy increases demand for oil and oil by-products.
So the consumer not only subsidizes Green Energy but also must compete with Green Energy for a dwindling percentage of Earths Natural Resources.
Maybe we should think about saving some for those materials????
The last time I checked we'd have to go all the way to Titan to find more.
Yes save "those materials", yet the solution you propose, advocate, Green Energy uses "those materials" at a higher rate, Green Energy takes the worlds largest amount of Hydrocarbons to produce a fraction of the energy than if you produced energy directly from Hydrocarbons.
That is the irony, Green Energy is the opposite of Green, Green Energy consumes natural resources such as oil at a higher rate, Green Energy increases demand for oil and oil by-products.
So the consumer not only subsidizes Green Energy but also must compete with Green Energy for a dwindling percentage of Earths Natural Resources.
This is especially true when you reach more than 10% or so of flaky renewables on the grid. At that point -- LARGE new costs come in.. Not only in dollars, but to the environment. Places like California and Germany have already been forced to build out football field size battery barns.. Not big enough to STORE that unreliable production from wind and solar -- but just to guarantee the STABILITY of the grid during frantic switching to balance loads. THOUSANDS of tons of batteries to manufacture, recycle, and replace reguarly.. Those costs have YET to be added into all this "free energy"..
