{"id":254165,"date":"2023-04-22T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254165"},"modified":"2023-04-22T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:49:49","slug":"why-100-wind-solar-100-guarantees-blackouts-and-rocketing-power-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254165","title":{"rendered":"Why 100% Wind & Solar 100% Guarantees Blackouts and Rocketing Power Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No civilised country has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar; no country ever will. And yet the grand wind and solar \u2018transition\u2019 \u2013 being peddled by rent-seekers and crony capitalists \u2013 is still taken as an article of faith by the na\u00efve and gullible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is evident is the direct and unassailable relationship between intermittent wind and solar, rocketing power prices, load shedding and, ultimately, mass blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this piece from September last year, Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling and John Phelan rich precisely that conclusion in relation to plans by Governor Tim Walz to permanently unhitch Minnesota from reality and reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The High Cost of 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040<\/strong>
American Experiment
Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling, John Phelan
12 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 mandate proposed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would cost the state $313.2 billion through 2050 and lead to devastating blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Walz\u2019s Proposal would commit the state to obtaining 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free energy sources by 2040, but his proposal would not legalize the construction of new nuclear power plants in Minnesota or allow the hydroelectric electricity generated in Canada that Minnesotans already purchase to count as \u201ccarbon-free.\u201d As a result, the Walz Proposal is essentially a wind, solar, and battery storage mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also investigated another scenario, called the Lower Cost Decarbonization (LCD) Scenario, that uses new nuclear power plants, coal plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) equipment, battery storage, and Canadian hydro and found that this suite of technologies would reduce emissions for a much lower cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report is the most robust modeling on the true cost of attempting to power our state using wind turbines, solar panels, and battery storage technology. Our study finds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n