Study released by UNiversity of Texas.
It's also interactive, change the tax or subsidy, see a different answer.
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FYI: The cheapest source of power for Dallas County today is Wind.
northsouth wrote:Except that by far the main loss of power has been from natural gas plants, partially from more gas being used for home heating than usual, but also because wells are getting blocked by ice. Can't deny that some turbines have frozen, but wind is still producing about as expected for these conditions, and solar is actually overperforming.
Some numbers: https://twitter.com/cohan_ds/status/1361346284230234112
Hannibal Lecter wrote:The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.
It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.
electricron wrote:Hannibal Lecter wrote:The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.
It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.
True. But nobody notices or cares as long as the electricity is available. It must be available, 24 hours a day every day of the year, forever. Brownouts from a heat wave or deep freeze is a symptom of recent political developments discouraging one source of energy from all others.
Unacceptable sources from the greens: nuclear, coal, natural gas, fuel oil, ethanol, wind farms, just about everything but solar. Even solar has distractors because how un-environmental friendly storage batteries are.
You can not have something if you do not like how that something is made. And I will repeat, the reason natural gas fueled generators dropped off line had nothing to do with the availability of natural gas in the ground, but in the ability to move it from fields to the power plants. Additional pipelines are needed.