Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battled over whether America would run on DC or AC power, but they never had to battle with the chaotic intermittency of wind and solar.
Celebrated in the recently released film, The Current War, Westinghouse and Edison fought a pitched battle over technology, patents, media approval and the support of legislators in their efforts to dominate the generation and distribution of electricity across the USA. Spoiler alert: Westinghouse won and AC remains the delivery system of choice.
In wind and solar obsessed Australia, the battle raging today about power generation and delivery is simply about keeping the lights on.
Rafe Champion takes a look at how the chaotic delivery of heavily subsidised wind and solar is the real Current War.
How intermittent energy kills coal-fired power and the grid
Catallaxy Files
Rafe Champion
16 March 2020
The damage inflicted by a good wind day. The…
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