Old Rocks
Diamond Member
For windmills, there are some very big empty spaces in Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Eastern Oregon that have prime wind areas. Enough potential to provide most of our energy needs.Yeah let's cover half the country in windmills and solar panels.... BrilliantYou think that we are incapable of getting our total power needs from just renewables and existing nuclear. Well, you are wrong.,
As for solar, I think that the big desert farms are not the most effective way to go. Switch to a distributed grid, and cover our city warehouses, malls, manufacturing facilities with solar. Very little transmission losses doing that. And the businesses, if they do it themselves, could get an income if they produced more than they used. Combine that with grid scale storage, at both the generation points, and the use points, and you have a very stable grid, with ample backup for storms.