Earlier this month, Texas suffered two energy blows. Neither had anything to do with hydrocarbons but they had everything to do with renewables. To be honest, as I read the headlines, I got a feeling I was reading Newsthump or another satire website.
If economical then there is no little to the amount of renewable power that you want.
The “But” is do you have the storage?
If you don’t then all you want is the minimum guaranteed useable renewable power.
The discussion is generally misplaced on production and it’s costs. The reality is whether the power is available to the consumer and that means for an intermittent supply like renewables the issue is to fix the storage not remove the other more certain sources of power.
Irina, you always makes me smile even when the subject is so serious!. But I think I am liking her husband now too. You just have to love good rational people! There seem to so few of them left.
It is really not the fact of the lunacy in building wind and solar in a hurricane zone, but the fact that they are using an inferior product when there are better solutions available. My thought is that solar has been around for more than 100 years, first patent in 1883 I believe, why is it still only 20% efficient at best? Storage is a long way from being worth a flip and I don't believe it is the solution either, thanks Elon for a massive waste of our tax dollars!
Why spend all that effort, when the problem is to clean up oil and gas, which they have done to a point, plan on nuclear for the future when oil and gas run low and keep the prices, affordable, the service efficient and most of all reliable. How rational is that?
The old saying here in Texas is... if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change. Unfortunately that's not the case this summer and unfortunately the way that Washington is going that won't change either. Glad to have you back!
More than agreed with that. Currently the most efficient batteries are hydro systems that create electricity in periods of peak demand and pump the water back up the hill with cheap electricity in the middle of the night.
Welcome to Substack, Irina. I have enjoyed (if that’s the right word) your work in Oil Price and your discussions with Robert Bryce. You are an important energy thinker.
Jul 29, 2022·edited Jul 29, 2022Liked by Irina Slav
I hope those offshore wind turbines don’t kill seabirds the way the turbines on land kill eagles. Jonathan Livingston Seagull would be sad. “Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall.“ . . . that is until they crash into a wind turbine blade!
If economical then there is no little to the amount of renewable power that you want.
The “But” is do you have the storage?
If you don’t then all you want is the minimum guaranteed useable renewable power.
The discussion is generally misplaced on production and it’s costs. The reality is whether the power is available to the consumer and that means for an intermittent supply like renewables the issue is to fix the storage not remove the other more certain sources of power.
Irina, you always makes me smile even when the subject is so serious!. But I think I am liking her husband now too. You just have to love good rational people! There seem to so few of them left.
It is really not the fact of the lunacy in building wind and solar in a hurricane zone, but the fact that they are using an inferior product when there are better solutions available. My thought is that solar has been around for more than 100 years, first patent in 1883 I believe, why is it still only 20% efficient at best? Storage is a long way from being worth a flip and I don't believe it is the solution either, thanks Elon for a massive waste of our tax dollars!
Why spend all that effort, when the problem is to clean up oil and gas, which they have done to a point, plan on nuclear for the future when oil and gas run low and keep the prices, affordable, the service efficient and most of all reliable. How rational is that?
The old saying here in Texas is... if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change. Unfortunately that's not the case this summer and unfortunately the way that Washington is going that won't change either. Glad to have you back!
More than agreed with that. Currently the most efficient batteries are hydro systems that create electricity in periods of peak demand and pump the water back up the hill with cheap electricity in the middle of the night.
Welcome to Substack, Irina. I have enjoyed (if that’s the right word) your work in Oil Price and your discussions with Robert Bryce. You are an important energy thinker.
“you can trust the weather about as much as you can trust a cat to save you from drowning” another reason I don’t have a cat!
I hope those offshore wind turbines don’t kill seabirds the way the turbines on land kill eagles. Jonathan Livingston Seagull would be sad. “Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall.“ . . . that is until they crash into a wind turbine blade!