No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. [bold, links added]
They are leaders in the ‘Stampede of the Green Lemmings.’
Solar energy has a huge problem. Even on sunny days, almost nothing is generated to meet the demand peaks around breakfast time and dinner time – the solar energy union only works a six-hour day, goes on strike with little warning, and takes quite a few sickies.
So, for at least 18 hours of every day, electricity must come from somewhere else. Then around noon, millions of solar panels pour out far more electricity than is needed, causing electrical and financial chaos in the electrical grid.
Naturally, our green ‘engineers’ see wind power as filling the solar energy gaps. But wind power has a union too and they take lots of sickies when there is no wind over large areas of the continent.
And they down tools in storms, gales, or cyclones in case their whirling toys are damaged.
So the green planners claim that batteries can solve these intermittent problems of the green-energy twins.
They will need to be humungous batteries.
Batteries are just a crutch for a crippled generation system. And with fierce lithium battery fires reported regularly, who wants a humungous fire-prone battery over the back fence or in the basement?
A battery is not a generator of electricity – every battery (including Snowy 2.0) is a net consumer of electricity.
Batteries are very expensive, most lose capacity as they age, and every conversion between DC storage and AC transmission triggers energy losses.
To collect, back up, and redistribute green electricity will require a continent-spanning spider-web of transmission lines with all the costs and energy losses that the network entails.
Still nights and calm cloudy days are what really expose the problems of wind-solar-plus-batteries.
Suppose electricity consumers require 100 units of electricity every day. Well-designed coal, nuclear, or gas-fired power stations can do that, 24/7, day after day, whatever the weather.
But to ensure a wind or solar system against, say, seven days of calm or cloudy weather would require a battery capable of storing 700 units of electricity.
To recharge this huge battery while still supplying consumers will require much larger wind or solar generating capacity.
However, if several weeks of windy or sunny weather then occur, this big battery will sit idle, connected to a bloated expensive generation system that is capable of delivering far more power than is needed.
Sunny or windy weather brings a deluge of green energy, causing power prices to plunge at irregular intervals, and forcing reliable generators to stop producing and lose money.
Eventually, they will close. Once all coal-gas generators are all gone, every (inevitable) green-energy drought will awaken the specter of extensive blackouts.
On top of all these practical problems of green energy, we have the massive carbon credits scam, where speculators sell green fairy stories to greedy bankers, and the real producers are forced to buy these fictitious ‘products’, passing the costs onto industry and consumers.
Australia is following the green energy lemmings of Europe.
Germany once produced abundant reliable electricity from coal and nuclear power – the backbone for German industry. Then green ants started nibbling at this backbone, replacing it with wind-solar toys.
Now, Germany has expensive electricity – a grid in danger of collapse and must rely on imported gas from Russia, nuclear power from France, or hydro-power from Scandinavia.
The UK is also following similar foolish energy policies, even banning exploration of their own oil and gas resources.
Australia is almost alone in the Southern oceans, with no near neighbors to buy, beg or borrow electricity from. We cannot afford to follow the green energy lemmings or their billionaire pied pipers.
Viv Forbes has tertiary qualifications in science and financial analysis and no vested interests in hydro-carbon energy, apart from a petrol lawnmower, two petrol quad bikes, several diesel farm machines, and a diesel generator in the shed.
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The problem with solar and wind is centralization. Amory Lovins explains in “Small is Profitable”. On-site systems don’t require costly transmission with its high energy losses. Geothermal onsite supplements sun and wind; more efficient, less toxic batteries are being developed. The primary consideration, however, in light of the solar minimum, is energy-efficient, highly insulated and passive solar housing, with passive solar and geothermal greenhouses attached to the home, collecting as much sun as is available and providing for growing food. The UN IPCC pushing global heating while our Sun and Earth cool–future shock– is their latest weapon of mass destruction–the most efficient depopulation yet. The virus and NATO wars distract us from agenda 2030–the ‘little ice age’ on its way. We can only practice “Active Hope: hope with its sleeves rolled up” (Joanna Macy). And: if you vaccinate, don’t take any more booster shots–they’re toxic!
And with them go the Democrat Lemming as w ell as the Hollywood lemmings right off the Cliff to their end