I guess everyone has become a slave to marketing. If they tell us it is true, then it must be true.
His plan is a pure snowjob. An excellent marketing document. They tried a small wind farm here once. After 5 years it was pulled down. Had it gone on line, it would have cost five times more to run than other alternatives.
The maintenance costs for wind power is as high as a nuclear power plant while generating a micro amount of the power a nuclear plant does,
Sure, if you like short term thinking, then go for it. This is definitely short term thinking at its finest.
The problem here is, there are other alternatives, that actually work. They are not being discussed because no one has bothered to write a marketing paper for them, like this gentleman has. Our country is a country of short term thinking though. Even though it creates more problems than it solves, no one seems to care and we keep doing it over and over again.
I remember when this same argument was about nuclear power plants. Well, long term, those have not held up to what everyone expected and was told. There was another time when coal plants were all the rage as well. We know how that went. I guess, eventually, we will get decent power solutions. We just have to wait until someone with enough money decides for us that it is time for those solutions.
As most have noticed, if you have bothered to read any of my diatribes, I do not delve in specifics. That is because I could care less about mankind anymore. I do not think it is worth salvaging at this point in time. After going through the number of idiotic investors I have gone through, I finally quit beating my head against the wall. I am not nearly as frustrated as I used to be.
Here is a bone to consider. You do not need to store electricity to have a power backup solution to your primary service. The Sun can be used to generate primary power, and that power can continue over night as well, without using batteries or some other electrical storage device. I know, because I am doing it. It will cost me some maintenance. About one to two hundred dollars a year. I'll have more precise numbers in a few years.
In the meantime, go back to your marketing plan and keep telling yourself, and others, how grand it is. At least it has some comic value.
