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Re: Texas grid operator error

Posted by AlM on Sun Mar 7 14:48:45 2021, in response to Re: Texas grid operator error, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Mar 7 14:07:56 2021.

As long as fossil fuels make more $$$ than green/non fossil alternatives, fossil fuels will rule.

Oil and coal no longer do. Natural gas won't, once you remove taxpayer subsidies.

Converting fossil fuels to useful energy requires extraction and then conversion into motion (via an internal combustion engine) or electricity (via a generator).

Sun and wind are free fuels; you just have the step of converting them to electricity. A wind turbine or a solar cell is comparable in cost to a gas-powered generator of electricity.

Agreed that you need batteries to store sun and wind, which offsets the savings on extraction. Once batteries get really cheap and the tax subsidies go away, natural gas and gasoline are dead.

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