There’s something altogether cynical about well-healed nations forcing the impoverished to embrace expensive and unreliable wind and solar. It is, of course, all done in the name of ‘saving the planet’. [Note to Ed: Not to mention saving the manufacturers of industrial wind turbines and solar panels, who are struggling back home].
As any economist specialising in development will eagerly tell you, the first step out of poverty for the Third World’s unfortunates is access to reliable and affordable energy. Relieving households of the daily drudgery of gathering sticks and dung to cook and heat homes; providing light and electricity to those homes by which the children might read and become educated; pumping and purifying the water they use; and giving a reliable source of power to miners, manufacturers, food processors and the like is – if you’re serious about creating a path out of poverty – all to the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Jan 20, 2020 @ 21:15:11
Jim,
I don’t know why you bother with this blog.
It simply avoids the truth.
Units in coal fired power stations break down regularly.
They break down in very hot weather all the time here.
That is intermittent power!
Given it is hard to see costs varying from here then they would be more than half the costs of a coal fired power station.
These idiots simply want to perpetuate poverty in Africa
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Jan 20, 2020 @ 23:30:27
How often versus daily variability of wind
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