AH - Rob D. Mister self proclaimed expert on life, world and all things electrical. Who does not mind stretching the truth if it fits into need to tell other people what to do and how to live. Your view of life is so very, very narrow and anyone that does not fit into YOUR mold is wrong.
So you had 2 days of wind power and it supplied 22% of your load. I'm still very impressed.
Looks like you are so busy keeping you power system up, working & running that you resent people that watch sports. Everyone, in your opinion should be out there building or Fixing their power system.
Just a little reality, without coal and other fossil fuel, you could not have built any of your fine system. Maybe your plastic solar panels are made out of crude oil.
One post you say you paid for it all yourself. Another you talk about the incentives & tax credits you used or got.
Another big lie a while back 'Coal has to be transported 1500 miles to many coal plants. There is no plant getting its coal from that distance.
If wind & solar are so good and cheap, why do power company's that use it charge more than those using coal or natural gas????
One thing you have never addressed is how much worse global warming is than global Cooling. What ya gonna do if Global Cooling starts. Another Mini Ice Age would be a much larger problem than the current warming.
No, you're not getting it. You're saying alternatives don't work so I ask what your solution is?
I'm making a comparison. I don't know who won the ball game but I have free electricity and will have free heat by next year. It's called priorities, I figure the things I want to do for pure enjoyment should come after the things that I do that make my life better ,simpler and less expensive. So, one more time, what's you solution to rising fuel and electricity costs. I'll bet you know who won the super bowl but I'll also bet you pay an electric bill. Get it!
No, not me 22% of ERCOT's load!
Yes, I got a grant, that I went after and applied for on my intertie, my off grid system was paid for by me with a 30% back from the government. If I didn't get the 30% back I would have still put it in.
PV is people power, when I put a system in corporate energy doesn't make a monthly profit from me, they don't have a ring through my nose that they yank on every time they raise my cost. What's you solution to that? What are you doing for your family to stop paying a monthly electric bill? You don't like PV so what's your answer?
You haven't given me any answers except burning wood that you have to buy gas to cut. This year I'll completely stop buying fuel oil for my heat, I would think that an intelligent person wouldn't be negative but would ask, "How can I do that." People ask me that everyday but there are always people who would rather sit in the dark and be naysayers. That's called cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
So for the last time, what's your solution? Keep buying oil from the people who want to terrorize us? Fighting wars to procure the oil to keep living our extravagant life styles? We have 5% or the world's population and use 25% of the world's energy, I'd call that extravagant.
I think this country is in dire trouble, read Gibbon on the fall of the Roman Empire, we're paralleling them and we better think about what to do about that.
You think we shouldn't subsidize new technology than what should we do? Electronics is my field and the advances coming out with renewables today are tremendous but if you think I'm wrong show me data proving your point.
You can't simply call people who disagree with you liars, that's intellectual bankruptcy, you have to actually make a sound statement based on reason. I've been in this field for over 50 years and you're trying to tell me I'm wrong? OK prove it!
Rob