Mandating transitioning away from petroleum is a no brainer.
Installation of renewables is vastly cheaper, faster to market, and has the fringe benefit of not bringing about the end of our ecosystem...
Mandating transitioning away from petroleum is a no brainer.
Installation of renewables is vastly cheaper, faster to market, and has the fringe benefit of not bringing about the end of our ecosystem...
Just because wind and solar are cheaper (also heavily subsidized via the IRA) doesn't mean it's all we need. They're intermittent and not dispatchable in the same way the older traditional resources were. One solution is to build a massive amount of batteries or a large DC macro grid, but even then, it won't solve all the problems and the massive projected growth in demand. Making demand more price responsive won't solve the problem either in all cases.
There's a lot of folks like NERC (in charge of reliability of the bulk electric system for the US and Canada) and MISO (a large regional organization that handles reliability on a regional level) sounding the alarm on this.
Are you sure your wishes are tantamount to a force of nature?