Free and Abundant Energy from wind and solar spin off

I was working near a wind farm southwest of Houston not long ago. Someone near it told me they were up for about a year before one of them got hit by lightning and burned down

I say we stick to the liberal idea and just give everyone free wind and solar.

People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time. So getting energy from those isolated places to big cities is a real issue… and then you have changing climate. Sometimes the wind just doesn’t blow or it rains. You can’t count on it for baseload.

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People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time.

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Which is why you see wind and solar farms powering towns like Abilene, San Angelo, etc. There's a solid economic argument that then investment for cogen units, which are more location flexible, get placed near places like Houston.

I'm building a workshop in my back yard. Thinking of putting a solar array behind it.

This isn't an environmental stance. I just want to be less reliant on Entergy because they suck at everything they do.

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I was working near a wind farm southwest of Houston not long ago. Someone near it told me they were up for about a year before one of them got hit by lightning and burned down

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You don’t think oil platforms get hit by lightening? Refineries? I really wish we, on the right, would stop with the idiotic criticisms. They undermine the actual criticisms. We are viewed by the majority, in this country, as a bunch of yokels, and it’s because the lowest common denominator drives our arguments.

We actually have common sense on our side. What we need is to start relentlessly pushing meaningful arguments that are actually persuasive.

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You don’t think oil platforms get hit by lightening? Refineries? I really wish we, on the right, would stop with the idiotic criticisms. They undermine the actual criticisms. We are viewed by the majority, in this country, as a bunch of yokels, and it’s because the lowest common denominator drives our arguments.

We actually have common sense on our side. What we need is to start relentlessly pushing meaningful arguments that are actually persuasive.

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i think the point is these alternative energy isnt very green and it shouldnt be one or the other.

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People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time. So getting energy from those isolated places to big cities is a real issue… and then you have changing climate. Sometimes the wind just doesn’t blow or it rains. You can’t count on it for baseload.

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But globally a large percentage of the population lives close to shorelines where they could take advantage of technology that now might be far more cost effective than it was even a decade ago: tidal generation. Tides are pretty consistent at any given location.

Not necessarily on a large scale like, La Rance, but on a micro generation basis similar to what is once again being pursued for the Thames Estuary: Port of London Authority and the Severn: CNBC.

We are so smart now that we are actually devolving ourselves