Comments on: Energy Reality: The Stock Beats the Flow from the Sun (why technology struggles to save ‘renewables’) http://www.masterresource.org/2009/11/energy-reality-the-stock-by-the-sun-beats-the-flow-from-the-sun/ A free-market energy blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:09:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jon Boone http://www.masterresource.org/2009/11/energy-reality-the-stock-by-the-sun-beats-the-flow-from-the-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-3279 Jon Boone Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:06:45 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=5619#comment-3279 Hooray for David Warren for telling the truth with clarion rhetoric. Hydro is likely the most effective power source ever for electricity generation, since it can, where abundant, provide both for baseload and load following capability. However, aside from the "aesthetics," which greatly disturbed John Muir, it degrades entire sensitive watershed ecosystems; this has a number of costs, including, in the long run, substantial financial costs. Environmental groups that sponsor such terrorism as wrought by utility scale wind and solar should be shamed and shunned, since these provide only desultory energy, not modern power performance, in the process making everything and everyone around them work harder just to stand still. And they gobble up and degrade much valuable habitat, impoverishing the environment in profound ways. Hooray for David Warren for telling the truth with clarion rhetoric. Hydro is likely the most effective power source ever for electricity generation, since it can, where abundant, provide both for baseload and load following capability. However, aside from the “aesthetics,” which greatly disturbed John Muir, it degrades entire sensitive watershed ecosystems; this has a number of costs, including, in the long run, substantial financial costs.

Environmental groups that sponsor such terrorism as wrought by utility scale wind and solar should be shamed and shunned, since these provide only desultory energy, not modern power performance, in the process making everything and everyone around them work harder just to stand still. And they gobble up and degrade much valuable habitat, impoverishing the environment in profound ways.

]]> By: JeffT http://www.masterresource.org/2009/11/energy-reality-the-stock-by-the-sun-beats-the-flow-from-the-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-3208 JeffT Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:27:21 +0000 http://www.masterresource.org/?p=5619#comment-3208 David Warren may not like the aesthetics of hydropower, but if the same damn is used for hydro electric power, flood mitigation and water storage, can provide more land for food production , water for human consumption and electricity. David Warren may not like the aesthetics of hydropower, but if the same damn is used for hydro electric power, flood mitigation and water storage, can provide more land for food production , water for human consumption and electricity.

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