Financial Post: “Bjorn Lomborg: Why solar and Wind power aren’t winning.”
From the article: “It is often reported that emerging industrial powers like China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh are getting more power from solar and wind. But these countries get much more additional power from coal. Last year China got more additional power from coal than it did from solar and wind. India got three times more electricity from coal than from green energy sources. Bangladesh 13 times more and Indonesia an astonishing 90 times more. If solar and wind really were cheaper, why would these countries not use them? Because reliability matters.”
More: “A new study shows that to achieve 100 per cent solar or wind electricity with sufficient backup, the U.S. would need to be able to store 3 months worth of electricity every year. It currently has seven minutes worth of battery storage. The required batteries would cost the U.S. five times of its current GDP. And it would have to replace them all when they expired after just 15 years.”
From the article: “It is often reported that emerging industrial powers like China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh are getting more power from solar and wind. But these countries get much more additional power from coal. Last year China got more additional power from coal than it did from solar and wind. India got three times more electricity from coal than from green energy sources. Bangladesh 13 times more and Indonesia an astonishing 90 times more. If solar and wind really were cheaper, why would these countries not use them? Because reliability matters.”
More: “A new study shows that to achieve 100 per cent solar or wind electricity with sufficient backup, the U.S. would need to be able to store 3 months worth of electricity every year. It currently has seven minutes worth of battery storage. The required batteries would cost the U.S. five times of its current GDP. And it would have to replace them all when they expired after just 15 years.”
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