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WRITTEN BY ROBERT BRYCE ON FEB 9, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

The MInd-Boggling High Costs Of Expanding Our Grid For Renewables

electricity power linesBillionaires, bureaucrats, and academics claim that shifting to an all-renewable electricity system will require doubling or tripling the size of our high-voltage transmission grid. Talking about it is easy. Making it happen? That’s an entirely different story.

Last month, Michael Bloomberg, the New York-based mega-billionaire wrote an article for his news outlet that was headlined “Winter Blackouts Highlight Need For Clean Energy.” [emphasis, links added]


In the article, Bloomberg, who is giving $500 million to the Beyond Carbon project through his charity Bloomberg Philanthropies, claimed that our electric grid should rely more on weather-dependent renewables because “renewable energy has advantages over coal and gas in severe weather.”

The MInd-Boggling High Costs Of Expanding Our Grid For Renewables
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