Friday, October 14, 2011
Thought of the Day
The latest article in Joe Romm's Climate Progress reaches a new intellectual low which is difficult with all the competition on that site for the title. The claim is made that if the US was foolish enough to install solar at the same rate as the Germans then it would be a 100% solar utopia by 2026 with everyone's home completely powered by renewables except on cloudy days and at night and in the mornings and late afternoons. We could all pretend that the new fossil fueled power stations running 24/7 as backup don't exist in this Romantic Green wonderland of the future. We could also pretend that the crippling cost of this part-time energy is OK because it is "green" and anyway the US can borrow heaps more dollars from China for such a good cause and avoid using all that cheap coal like the silly Chinese are doing. (Emphasis added).
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 4:01 AM 
