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What are you trying to say with the 0% stat. If I were going to use more wind energy, I wouldn't just shut down a coal plant and throw up a million wind turbin
by maximilian 18y ago
What are you trying to say with the 0% stat. If I were going to use more wind energy, I wouldn't just shut down a coal plant and throw up a million wind turbines. I would just add more wind turbines as our energy needs grew. So ideally you add a lot of wind turbines to mitigate building a new coal burning plant.
You will probably always need things like coal plants because they are very efficient and always work. You probably build a hybrid of wind turbines and gas powered turbines that are very adjustable. On a good wind day you you use less of the gas turbines and on a bad wind day you use more of the gas turbines to meet demand. The coal (or nuclear) plants are the base upon which you build your solar or wind system.
- gaius 18y agoI'm trying to say that it's not as simple as the article makes out. When there are wind-powered factories making wind turbines, transported to their destinations and installed by electrically powered vehicles charged by wind power, then it will be real. Until then, wind power requires massive energy subsidies from fossil fuels to the extent that it doesn't actually help much.