Editor’s Note: Wind and solar industrial facilities are often proposed as the way to have our cake and eat it too on energy – to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electric power generation while still maintaining a reliable supply of electricity. Whether such systems are actually result in decreased carbon dioxide emissions is open to debate when one considers the carbon footprint of mining, constructing, operating, and disposing of the waste from such systems. By contrast, they clearly aren’t as reliable as electric power plants fueled by coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Nor, are traditional power plants operations disrupted by a passing storm, as the guest post below details happened in the United Kingdom recently.
Guest essay By Paul Homewood From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
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Just as well we don’t rely on renewables for all of our electricity then!
