Saturday, January 10, 2009
"If You Love Wind (and Solar)"
So, once again, something that sounds really good has major caveats.
Well, here I go again. I'm going to blame the media for this.
In this case, the media has done us all an injustice.
They HEADLINE and write about all the BENEFITS of alternative energy sources. They make it sound SO easy and imply that certain people are stupid for not embracing it.
They NEVER report on the complications and associated costs because they NEVER do their homework...
Well, here I go again. I'm going to blame the media for this.
In this case, the media has done us all an injustice.
They HEADLINE and write about all the BENEFITS of alternative energy sources. They make it sound SO easy and imply that certain people are stupid for not embracing it.
They NEVER report on the complications and associated costs because they NEVER do their homework...
Andrew C. Revkin posts this and more on his Dot Earth blog:
"If you love wind power (and solar power), you’d better at least like transmission. This was originally recited to me as kind of an energy-wonk joke. But it’s no laughing matter, as my colleague Matt Wald points out in an article today on new evidence that the country’s grid is already stretched to the limit and unlikely to be able to handle bigger, intermittent pulses of electricity from wind turbines and big solar-power arrays."
