A reasonable question, Chuck, but then you might ask why we are still allowed
to build fossil fuel installations without any way of preventing the carbon
from building in the atmosphere.
I think that Scotland’s achievement is admirable; you very rarely get still
days on the west coast. If we complemented greater use of renewables with
small nuclear installations we would have a realistic energy policy. Somewhere
in the UK (Cardiff?) they will build a lagoon for tapping the power from the
movement of the tide.
Chris
> On 17 Oct 16, at 11:54, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why is it that the renewables industry has been allowed to press ahead with
> new solar and wind farms when there is no practical battery/storage
> technology known that can store the surplus power for when the sun doesn't
> shine and the wind doesn't blow? A day of reckoning is coming when people
> finally realize that all of this investment is duplicating the existing power
> generating capacity with no hope of the renewables making it on their own...
> ever.
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