The penny is starting to drop for the anti-fossil fuel squad: reliance on chaotically unreliable wind and solar guarantees dependence on fossil fuel.
No bad thing in our view, mind you.
The wind and solar acolyte started out believing that coal was already dead as the dodo and gas would soon follow. However, already 20 years into our ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future, nothing could be further from the truth.
Indeed – in a ‘drats and curses’ moment for fossil fuel haters – the future for gas producers has never looked rosier.
Sudden and unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output, are increasingly being met by fast start-up diesel and/or gas generators, whether using Open Cycle Gas Turbines or giant ship engines.
They call it “backup”, as if wind and solar were like a car in need of an occasional push start. But, in…
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