Loading ...Wind And Solar Aren’t Nearly Enough: Why Biden Is Suddenly Supporting Fossil Fuels
They promised us that it would be all so different…
The loudening insistence that renewables should displace, not just supplement, fossil fuels and nuclear energy in the power sector has some undeniable problems.
In electricity jargon, politically favored wind and solar power are “non-dispatchable” resources (with capacity factors lower than 35%), while fossil fuels and nuclear are “dispatchable” (with capacity factors 85% and higher). This means that cost comparisons between wind and solar (intermittent, usually unavailable) versus fossil fuels and nuclear (baseload, almost always available) are much more imaginary than real.
Land-devouring wind and solar farms are every bit as unwanted as the oil and gas pipelines that renewable advocates love to hate.