March 6, 2021
Renewables and Reliability
By Todd Royal
Without reliable electricity, modern life doesn’t exist. This is why the move to an all-electric society is such a bad idea. Most leaders in the West do not understand this reality. It’s why over 3 billion still live in squalid poverty while the West successfully fights COVID-19 with products derived from crude oil. Grids cannot function without energy sources that are abundant, reliable, scalable, affordable, and flexible. Currently, only coal, natural gas, oil, petroleum, and nuclear energy meet this criteria. Even natural gas has limitations compared to coal, because natural gas-fired power plants “depend on just-in-time fuel deliveries,†which aren’t reliable in extreme weather.
Whether in German winters, California summers, or Texas polar vortex storms, electrical grids are fragile and need proper management or blackouts will happen. Trillions are needed to upgrade and build new grids in the U.S. and globally if renewables continuing being deployed for electrical generation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/renewables_and_reliability.html
