April 13, 2021
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No Contest: Never Reliable Wind & Solar Can’t Compete with Ever Reliable Coal-Fired Power
Then, along came coal-fired power, and they were history.
Renewables acolytes have been massaging the numbers for years, in an attempt to show that wind and solar power are the cheapest of all.
The standard bag of tricks includes ignoring the capital cost of having every single (unreliable) megawatt of wind or solar constantly backed up by another (reliable) megawatt of coal, gas, nuclear or hydro; refusing to acknowledge the cost to power consumers of mandated targets, tax breaks and/or massive direct subsidies that exclusively benefit wind and solar; ignoring the additional transmission costs of bringing intermittent and diffuse sources of energy from remote locations (where they’re produced) to the cities where the power is consumed; and dis
Almost all predictions were thrown out of the window by coronavirus which changed all our lives forever. So you d have to be a fool to try to predict what may happen in 2021 right? Well maybe - but we are going to give it a go anyway. Of course our biggest hope for 2021 is that we are able to get back to something like normality. So here s our predictions of how the next 12 months may play out.
1 WARRINGTON WALKING DAY TO RETURN It is always a highlight of the year in Warrington and we really missed it in 2020. But if the vaccine continues to be rolled out, we are hoping it will be back this summer.
Sam Luckley, signed by Salford Red Devils from Newcastle Thunder this week. Picture: SWpix.com WITH so many distractions in our busy lives at the moment, here s a brief catch-up on who has signed for who in Super League over the past week - just in case you ve missed it! - Salford have continued their recruitment drive with the signing of Warrington back-rower Harvey Livett, who spent last season on loan at Hull KR (Picutre: Mike Boden) - Catalans Dragons have confirmed the signing of England forward Mike McMeeken from Castleford (Picture: SWpix.com) - Warrington have signed prop Robbie Mulhern from Hull KR in a move that will see youngster Luis Johnson go the other way (Picture: Warrington Wolves)