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PamW

(1,825 posts)
12. This says it ALL!!
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 03:38 PM
Feb 2012

Q: Is California ready to turn to renewable energy—wind, solar, geothermal—to provide base load electrical power?

Chu: No, it's not there yet. We need to solve the problem of energy distribution and energy storage before renewables becomes, for example, 50 percent of the base load electricity. There's no way it can become 50 percent until we have a mass-energy storage system or a huge international or national distribution system.
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This is what Chu said in 2009, and Chu would say the same today. This is what I say also - I agree with the above 100%.

You can't have renewables >50% if you either can't store the power, or you can't get power from the other side of the world. NEITHER one can we do today - so for the forseeable future; renewables are LIMITED to <50%. That doesn't mean we don't work on it. However, we have been working on it for decades already.

This is where your lack of scientific understanding limits your understanding of the entire process. Like your lack of understanding of the
2nd Law of Thermodynamics. You "think" that the 2nd Law isn't a big barrier, that we can "engineer" our way around it. That is WRONG, and if you understood science, you'd know it was wrong. We don't "engineer" our way around Laws of Physics; we have to obey them.

Otherwise, we could have all the energy we want; we just "engineer" our way around the Law of Conservation of Energy.

We don't need a supply of energy to tap; we'll just engineer things so that we make energy out of absolute nothing. Since nothing is our fuel source, and the song lyricists have told us for years that we have plenty of nothing, then we can have all the energy we want; all made out of nothing.

Of course, any intelligent reader here knows that is impossible. Well bypassing the 2nd Law and the other Laws of Physics that you eschew when I bring them up; is just as impossible.

PamW

LOL, this is actually kind of funny. joshcryer Feb 2012 #1
Don't say I didn't warn you!! PamW Feb 2012 #2
No reputable scientists would make false representations like that kristopher Feb 2012 #3
I EXPLAINED THAT!! PamW Feb 2012 #4
No you didn't. kristopher Feb 2012 #6
DONE! PamW Feb 2012 #7
Not done. kristopher Feb 2012 #8
OH BROTHER!! PamW Feb 2012 #9
Simply put, you are not telling the truth kristopher Feb 2012 #10
Poor READING COMPREHENSION!!! PamW Feb 2012 #11
This says it ALL!! PamW Feb 2012 #12
SURE THERE IS!!! PamW Feb 2012 #5
Evidently Kris didn't read this part! PamW Feb 2012 #13
Huh. caraher Feb 2012 #14
I sick and tired of Kris PamW Feb 2012 #17
There is no 2004 report, Pam. You made that up. kristopher Feb 2012 #15
WRONG and DISENGENUOUS!!! PamW Feb 2012 #16
Legitimate scientists do not fabricate data like you do. kristopher Feb 2012 #18
I DO NOT FABRICATE!!! PamW Feb 2012 #20
THEY SURE DO!!! PamW Feb 2012 #21
Kicked for review nt kristopher Jul 2013 #22
Obama seeks to make renewable Production Tax Credit permanent kristopher Feb 2012 #19
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