QuoteHowever, these comparisons are missing the main point: we aren't building a new electric grid from scratch, so we should be comparing the cost of new wind and solar with the cost of existing power plants that these intermittent generators would hope to replace. The truth is that we already have reliable, depreciated assets that produce electricity at low cost, and they could've kept doing so for decades.
I was thinking who wrote this conservative Mainstream duopoly WANK. Then I read the paragraph I quote and I see. "We already have reliable, depreciated assets that produce electricity at low cost, and they could've kept doing so for decades."
I had to find out who these cheerleaders of capitalism are. Who benefits from distorting the reality of wind power economics, or who concentrates on money to the exclusion of all other considerations. The website has an about page. Here is what they say about themselves.
QuoteCenter of the American Experiment is Minnesota's leading public policy organization.
Center of the American Experiment is more than a think tank. It not only researches and produces papers on Minnesota's economy, education, health care, the family, employee freedom and state and local governance. It also crafts and proposes creative solutions that emphasize free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility and government accountability.
In other words, Satan funds them.
Isaac Orr is a Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment. Mitch Rolling is a Policy Fellow at the Center of the American Experiment.
These milk toast white bread homeboys from the northern cornfields have been told how wonderful they be all their lives. Now we have to put up with the results.
It is not wise to play games with numbers around me. My sense of smell is dog good.