Forced Push To Renewables.

[jaF0]

The Gretch may have done some good things, but I don't support this kind of thing.

Michigan could implement ambitious clean energy mandates and have carbon-free electricity by 2040​

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign a clean energy package soon that will require energy providers to transition to 100% carbon-free energy generation by 2040.


Incentives are fine. Forcing is not.

I don't believe solar and wind are sufficiently hardened against storm damage for one. A hail storm can wreck havoc on solar panels while not even scratching a fuel fired power plant. A simple snow storm can render panels ineffective. MI can get a foot or more of snow several times a year. Who cleans the panels off? Have they developed systems to clear snow on a wide scale? Maybe they have ... this is a question.

I'm not opposed to a changeover. But it has to be at a reasonable cost, a reasonable pace and without predictable consequences.

 

[Lazaran]

I don’t like the failure of the world’s leaders in government and industry to address the climate crisis caused by the burning of fossil fuels FORCING EVERYONE TO DIE.

The world just crossed a critical temperature threshold for the first time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...l-threshold-for-the-first-time-last-week/amp/

JFC

SAD!!!

 

[HisArpy]

If you look you'll notice that most of what the Left does follows the same tactic of force. It all falls under the rubric of;

"It's for your own good."

Alternative wording is; "it's to promote the general welfare."

Either way, it's the same thing. Government acts like a domestic abuser by hurting the people and then telling society that they made government do it. And, just like in domestic abuse situations, some of the victims support their abuser. Even up to the point where the abuser sometimes kills them and/or their kids.

Hopefully most of society will wake up and see what's happening next year then vote to correct the problem.

 

[AlexBailey]

The Gretch may have done some good things, but I don't support this kind of thing.

Michigan could implement ambitious clean energy mandates and have carbon-free electricity by 2040​

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign a clean energy package soon that will require energy providers to transition to 100% carbon-free energy generation by 2040.


Incentives are fine. Forcing is not.

I don't believe solar and wind are sufficiently hardened against storm damage for one. A hail storm can wreck havoc on solar panels while not even scratching a fuel fired power plant. A simple snow storm can render panels ineffective. MI can get a foot or more of snow several times a year. Who cleans the panels off? Have they developed systems to clear snow on a wide scale? Maybe they have ... this is a question.

I'm not opposed to a changeover. But it has to be at a reasonable cost, a reasonable pace and without predictable consequences.

Solar panels already sluff snow very effectively, still some systems are designed to reverse enough current in solar arrays to heat them to speed the process.

 

[AlexBailey]

Without emissions laws, what incentive would auto manufacturers have had to decrease emissions?

The technology to reduce emissions was developed in order to meet regulatory requirements.

 

[Lazaran]

When a product has to be forced or subsidized, it’s not ready. Either the technology hasn’t yet matured or the production process has not lowered costs to a level that consumers are willing to pay.

A product that provides significant improvement, in an area valued by consumers, at a cost they think is reasonable, will be adopted without coercion or additional incentives.

^
Contender for dumbest post of the year.

 

[Chernosoth]

Signing it is just a photo op. It will be repealed or just ignored and forgotten long before 2040. Meanwhile, imported fossil fuels will be less available and much more expensive, so we will be using less, but also separating what actually works in renewables from subsidy dumpsters. We can't run a global supply chain of mining, shipping, making the parts, and building the infrastructure with the energy of windmills and solar panels. Dialing everything way down to what we can build with local materials, mostly without power tools, will be the engineering of this century.

 

[butters]

2,000 construction jobs, completion expected in 2026

The American Southwest is about to get a lot more clean energy. California-based developer Pattern Energy just closed on $11 billion of non-recourse financing to construct a massive wind and transmission project across New Mexico and Arizona, as Electrek reported.

The project, called SunZia, is divided into two parts: wind and electricity transmission. The wind part, named SunZia Wind, will reportedly be the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere, with a 3,500-megawatt capacity, per Electrek. The transmission portion, named SunZia Transmission, will have the capacity to transport 3,000 megawatts of power.

“The size and scale of both the SunZia project and this multifaceted financing show that the renewable energy space can secure attractive capital at levels previously only seen in traditional generation,” Daniel Elkort, an executive vice president at Pattern Energy, said, per Electrek.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...p&cvid=96c3a14d8236483b8ec62f74a529897e&ei=68

 

[butters]

solar glazing now a potential way forward for buildings... making use of

nanoparticle and microparticle technology that can “diffuse, redistribute, and reflect elements of the incoming light towards the edges of the glass panel,” which then allows the light’s energy to be collected by photovoltaic modules, according to its website.

ClearVue PV calculates that 10 square meters (about 107 square feet) of its glass generates approximately 1.35 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean energy per day

A recent peer-reviewed study conducted over the course of two years confirmed that ClearVue’s technology provides up to 40% of an offset for a building’s energy costs, per the company.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...p&cvid=65428fd5f2d54baca680a7086540b38f&ei=87