Letters to the Editor
Not Much Power
In The New American of March 4, 2019, the article entitled “The Renewable Energy Scam” criticizes the alleged “renewable energy” of solar and wind power from the standpoint that “the sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow,” and for various “energy credit schemes” used. Actually, there’s a much more fundamental reason why we shouldn’t invest heavily in them for large-scale dependence: Basic science points out that the “renewable energies” of solar and wind are just too ineffective — and environmentally costly — to pursue further for large-scale use.
Both are too “low density” in nature to be effective for large-scale use and dependence. Their “low density” requires so much use of land and other resources to manufacture the equipment and put it to use to “harvest” electricity and obtain significant output that it makes them extremely inefficient and costly. Those resources could be much better used for other, more efficient power sources — particularly nuclear — for long-term and large-scale purposes.
I’ve been looking at solar and wind from the standpoint of possible implementation in my own housing for 45 years, since before buying my first house, revisiting their “state of the art” frequently. So I became very aware of how their low density/low potential (in “electronic voltage” or power terms) nature makes it very challenging to design them for cost-effective use and for dependable energy.
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