Solar, wind and other renewables generating at least 25% of our electrical energy backed up mostly by natural gas fired turbines and maybe a few more nukes is the most likely scenario over the next 25 years. As coal plants retire, a mix of new renewables and gas fired plants will take their place.
If you accept that past is prologue when it comes to human behavior then we have all the data we need to know, and not just guess at, how much additional power we need each year over the next couple of decades if not beyond – 15,000 megawatts (“MW”) as it turns out.
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Is clean coal a fiction or half-truth that forms part of an ideology, i.e. a myth? As with most things, it depends on your point of view and your own ideology. If building a clean coal power plant is simply a matter of a fat check book, willpower and a room full of engineers, an [...]
The last weekend before the recent presidential election, a San Francisco Chronicle interview found Mr. Obama stating, “Build the coal plants if they want, but it will bankrupt them if they do.” Not surprisingly, the conservative herd quickly wolfed down this final slab of red meat and lept to the conclusion that the Obama administration [...]
Despite having spent most of my adult life trying to make electrons move through wires there’s one flavor of power generation of which I know very little. I confess I’ve never really cared for it very much either. Ok, the truth is I’m even more than a little intimidated by it. No, it goes even [...]
