(Sounds like a win to me) "The simple fact is that electric vehicles cannot meet the demands of my constituents," Joyce told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week. "Coupling the mountains with the harsh winters and the intense heat of summers makes driving an electric vehicle both unreliable and ultimately unrealistic for many of my constituents." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-join-republicans-voting-strike-down-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate
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A “EV” operates off of natural gas, ( to be outlaw by demarcates), coal ( to be outlaw by demarcates), nuclear ( to be outlaw by demarcates) hydropower (environmentalists try to stop) . 7% from wind power ( approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur in the U.S. each year. ) The US power grid is, in fact, highly fragmented and consists of not one, but three different sections. These are called the Eastern, Western, and ERCOT interconnections — three separate power grids that are almost completely isolated from one another, electrically speaking. *** In 2019, natural gas had the largest share (38 percent) in U.S. electricity generation, coal had the second-largest share (23 percent), and nuclear had the third largest (20 percent). Renewable energy sources contribute to about 17 percent of U.S. electricity production at utility-scale facilities. Of this share, 7.3 percent came from wind and 6.6 percent from hydropower. 2019 was the first year that wind power generation surpassed hydropower. Other renewable sources, such as solar, biomass and geothermal, have a minor share. **** https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/**** **** https://www.epa.gov/green-power-markets/us-electricity-grid-markets***
Not strictly. There are tons of interconnects between the systems. They're just not AC synchronized. So, you can't mix and match generators from one system on the same wires without either a DC intertie or complex synchronization equipment, but we do have those.
Work for USBR in hydroelectric generation. They use peak wind/solar power generation to massage the numbers. In reality wind and solar do not operate efficiently nor are they consistently generating. Hydro is still far ahead of generation over wind and solar combined.
Hard empirical data tells the whole story. Hydro is the only true reliable renewable of the three. Not to mention the word “green” hardly applies to wind/solar. Fabricating those yields lots of waste with large carbon footprints.