As a Texan I agree! Now, I love the idea of renewables, but not as any sort of main power source. I’d be ok if more homeowners used renewables and there were some credits for that. Our grid needs more resilience tho, less reliance on renewables.
As near as I can tell, geothermal is the only proper renewal energy source, a reliable and 24/7 base-load type facility. Until fusion power from seawater deuterium or regular old hydrogen becomes safe & viable in a commercial sense.
Wind is inconstant and as we have seen, the damn things freeze up and become useless when they are needed most.
Solar is also inconstant for similar reasons. Snow dumps and precipitation and cloud..
Hydro is no good when its more important to have drinking water rather than spending that elevated water store on power. And is still unreliable as it depends too much on precipitation.
On the other hand, the earths core heat is infinite in any sense of human consumption, at least when it comes to tapping it for the next million years. Even if you dumped all the words oceans and ice into it all at once in one place, it wouldn't really do much to deplete the energy. It doesn't go away at night, or in hurricanes, or when there is too little or too much rain or cloud. Pump water down, receive hot and high velocity steam up, run through turbines for power and vent it wherever.. pumps that handle water and standard turbines are about as simple as a power plant can get.
As a Texan I agree! Now, I love the idea of renewables, but not as any sort of main power source. I’d be ok if more homeowners used renewables and there were some credits for that. Our grid needs more resilience tho, less reliance on renewables.
As near as I can tell, geothermal is the only proper renewal energy source, a reliable and 24/7 base-load type facility. Until fusion power from seawater deuterium or regular old hydrogen becomes safe & viable in a commercial sense.
Wind is inconstant and as we have seen, the damn things freeze up and become useless when they are needed most.
Solar is also inconstant for similar reasons. Snow dumps and precipitation and cloud..
Hydro is no good when its more important to have drinking water rather than spending that elevated water store on power. And is still unreliable as it depends too much on precipitation.
On the other hand, the earths core heat is infinite in any sense of human consumption, at least when it comes to tapping it for the next million years. Even if you dumped all the words oceans and ice into it all at once in one place, it wouldn't really do much to deplete the energy. It doesn't go away at night, or in hurricanes, or when there is too little or too much rain or cloud. Pump water down, receive hot and high velocity steam up, run through turbines for power and vent it wherever.. pumps that handle water and standard turbines are about as simple as a power plant can get.
Nope, nuclear is just as good. But yeah, ocean power and geothermal are indeed great sources of power.