The political push to transform our electrical grid into reliance on renewable wind and solar energy keeps running into the laws of physics. The laws of physics are going to win, but the economic carnage in the meantime will be terrible. My colleague Isaac Orr documents, not for the first time, the futility of wind energy when the weather gets cold: It is a well-understood phenomenon that wind generation in
You sometimes see newspaper headlines to the effect that, say, a 50 megawatt solar power plant is being constructed. But you shouldn t count on getting anything remotely approaching 50 megawatts of power from such an installation. Energy expert Isaac Orr explains: Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that production from solar panels plummets in the winter. The graph below shows the percentage of electricity generated by solar
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