Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t MarkW – President Biden has introduced the whole coal trade is shutting down as a result of coal is simply too costly and unreliable.
Biden says coal vegetation ‘all throughout America’ will probably be shut down, changed with wind and photo voltaic
Biden argued that it’s ‘cheaper’ to generate electrical energy from wind and photo voltaic than it’s from coal
By Andrew Miller FOXBusiness
Revealed November 4, 2022 6:22pm EDTPresident Biden stated Friday that coal vegetation are too costly to function, and “we’re going to be shutting these vegetation down all throughout America” as a way to shift to wind energy in a remark that drew criticism from the Republican Nationwide Committee.
“I used to be in Massachusetts a couple of month in the past on the positioning of the most important outdated coal plant in America,” Biden stated at an occasion in Carlsbad, California, on Friday. “Guess what? It value them an excessive amount of cash. They will’t rely. Nobody is constructing new coal vegetation as a result of they will’t depend on it. Even when they’ve all of the coal assured for the remainder of the existence of the plant.
“So it’s going to turn into a wind era. And all they’re doing is it’s going to save lots of them a hell of some huge cash and utilizing the identical transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electrical on, we’re going to be shutting these vegetation down all throughout America and having wind and solar energy, additionally offering tax credit to assist households purchase power environment friendly home equipment, whether or not it’s your fridge or your espresso maker, for photo voltaic panels on your house, weatherize your house, issues that save a median, consultants say, a minimal of $500 a 12 months for the common household.”
Biden’s remark prompted a response from a Twitter account run by the Republican Nationwide Committee, which stated, “Joe Biden celebrates coal plant staff shedding their jobs.”
Biden added that it’s “cheaper to generate electrical energy from wind and photo voltaic than it’s from coal and oil.”
“Actually cheaper,” the president stated. “Not a joke.”
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On the marketing campaign path in 2020, candidate Biden urged that coal miners dealing with an economic system the place their job is probably phased out ought to “study to program.”
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WUWT has already lined Biden’s wild claims about coal in Massachusetts.
No quantity of wind and photo voltaic can reliably provide the USA throughout opposed winter climate.
Solar energy doesn’t work at evening, or in winter – Northern states particularly merely don’t obtain sufficient daylight.
Wind alone can not carry the USA’s power wants throughout lengthy durations when photo voltaic is unavailable. Wind merely isn’t a dependable supply of power.
Think about the Texas ice storm in February 2021 (see the graph on the high of the web page). Photo voltaic dropped to nearly nothing for over 10 days, and wind wasn’t out there for vital durations. Nuclear energy and fossil gasoline, significantly gasoline, saved Texas from power oblivion throughout that interval.
In fact, I don’t imagine anyone might moderately anticipate President Biden to grasp such points. He doesn’t appear to grasp a lot of something today.
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