The Answer Is Blowing In the Wind

SEE HERE Well that was a lyric from a Bob Dylan song I remember when I was still a teenager or a young twenty something. If fits though. Wind is not all it is cracked up to be as a power source. It requires a big investment. It generates power at relatively low density with big wind turbines that only work when the wind blows and the wind is fickle. We see in this report that it can vary by at least 30% and probably goes away just when you most need the power for various critical functions. That means of course that you can't really replace anything with wind because you have to have a backup. Fossil fuels are going to be very hard to replace. In fact we may end up making liquid fuels from coal long before we transition to something else. We need to put all the players on the table and not play this stupid so-called "green" or "renewable" energy game. In the long run nothing is renewable and we're all dead and entropy is at a maximum. In the meantime what works is what we should do. A lot of playing around with notions from people who don't really know much simply won't cut it. I just about scream when people tell me we should transition to hydrogen. "Gee that's great. Do you know how hydrogen is produced?" Of course they don't. And if they did they probably wouldn't see the problem. If you're not technically informed then you should at least get technically informed before you join the conversation.