{"id":6196,"date":"2014-06-10T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/wind-solar-fail-as-renewable-power\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:21:21","slug":"wind-solar-fail-as-renewable-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/wind-solar-fail-as-renewable-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind, Solar, Fail As Renewable Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

nukewind.jpgIt has long been our opinion (based on facts) that neither wind nor solar power can compete with the efficiency and cost of nuclear power generation. Hyped-up belief and major taxpayer-funded subsidies have taken the wind and solar efforts as far as they have come today. Hyped-up fear and misinformation have been applied to public opinion that nuclear power generation is both dangerous and evil.<\/p>\n

Mark Perry<\/em>, a professor of economics and finance, penned a very interesting piece today that points out that the clean energy movement is missing their best bet for green power.<\/p>\n

From Investors Business Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wind and solar power, once viewed as our best hope for abundant supplies of zero-carbon energy, are distracting us from what might be the real solution: nuclear power.<\/p>\n

The time has come for states to reconsider their mandates requiring that a share of electricity come from renewable energy sources, and instead consider a more direct and sensible policy in support of nuclear power.<\/p>\n

Currently 30 states have renewable power standards designed to promote the use of wind and solar power, which are carbon-free, non-polluting sources of energy. Among the most ambitious, California’s standard mandates that the state generate one-third of its electricity from renewables by 2020.<\/p>\n

But the hype over wind and solar power as clean and renewable is undermined by their fatal flaw \u2014 intermittency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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