The Future of Energy
Why wind and solar are the energy past, not future
Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling
Oct 26, 2024
Many people seem to think the future holds an inevitable shift away from fossil fuels toward solar panels and wind turbines, but this perception is incorrect. As California demonstrated in mid-August, these technologies are not up to the task of powering our lives, and pretending otherwise is both naive and dangerous.
California politicians spent decades passing legislation mandating ever-increasing amounts of wind and solar onto the electric grid. On August 14 and 15, 2020, these policies came back to bite them in a big way.
That weekend, more than two million Californians experienced rolling power outages during a record-breaking heatwave because there wasn’t enough electricity on the grid as the sun set, rendering the state’s solar panels useless for electricity generation.
The California politicians who patted themselves on the back for shuttering coal, nuclear, and natural gas power plants had killed off the sources of electricity that could’ve come in handy, ones that weren’t reliant upon the weather. The results were tragic but predictable. Thankfully, for the rest of America, similar results are preventable.
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