We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Sadly, it IS all about the money, at least for those solar and wind folks, money that's from your pocket and from mine.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan famously tore Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the roof of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and tossed them in the rubbish bin. Perhaps the Adults actually KNOW something that the children don’t. And when Obama’s election ushered in a new “green era” of “environmental justice” (read: “reparations”) I was SCREAMING that we’ve seen this movie before ... in the late 1970/80’s !!! Don’t be STUPID. We (read: China) may be able to make solar panels cheaper and faster ... but they are only infinitesimally more efficient than Jimmy Carter’s solar panels. Is there a place and use for them ... of course!! But is our “OIL-dependency” (say that like it’s a bad thing) ... going to be erased by wind and solar ... no matter how much TAXPAYER dollars we shovel into Elon Musk’s personal bank account ...? Don’t be stupid. Now ... all that’s left is Thousands of Lawyers suing BIG OIL for “environmental reparations”. If Trump has turned off the TAXPAYER spigot ... then Leftist Judges are the “Court” of last resort.

We are having to DEFEND our culture from the constant onslaught of foreign invaders and homegrown haters. Truth, physics, and science be damned ... we must “progress!”

Hey, I think solar panels are great!

Those little thingummies on top of my garden lights really make the house and grounds look pretty on summer nights.

The moron up the street has three quarters of his roof covered with solar panels. I was driving my son to work and on the way by the house my son asked how much electricity do you suppose is being generated? The panels were covered by three inches of snow and have been for most of this winter.

In the seventies, a family friend had a swimming pool installed in the backyard. He was too cheap to buy a heater for the pool. Instead he bought 600 feet of black garden hose and a small pump. He coiled the hose on the roof of the house and pumped water up and through it and back into the pool. It was at least a practical attempt at using solar energy. Of course, it worked best in hot, sunny weather when the pool was naturally warmed by the sun.

I always have trouble juxtaposing this international data with individual country claims. See CanWEA:

"Continuing 2016’s growth, Canada finished 2017 with 12,239 MW of wind energy capacity—enough to power over 3 million homes, or six per cent of our country’s electricity"

Still if the world's Demand, or whatever the graph represents barely rounds above zero (.6%) How can Can be generating 6% of supply? Apples vs Oranges no doubt but name plate capacity might have something to do with it. I believe the Int figures, the Wind Association, not so much.

Presumably, this graphic includes all energy demand and production, not just the electrical grid. If so, that means that the roughly 10% contribution of bioenergy includes all the wood and turd burning from the third world. Currently 40% of the planet's wood harvest goes for heating and cooking, primarily in the developing nations. It's interesting that the "unreliables" (wind and solar) are the only source called "renewable".

Hydro Rates by Province for 1000 kWh (May 2015)

British Columbia: $84.12
Basic monthly charge, 0.16640 per day ($4.92 monthly)
Energy Charge: 7.52¢/kWh x1000, $75.20
Rate Rider 5% Rate Rider applied to all charges before taxes and levies 4.92+75.2= 80.12 + $4 (rate rider)

Saskatchewan: $143.68
Basic Monthly Charge $20.22
Energy Charge: 12.346¢/kWh x1000, $123.46

Manitoba: $81.09
Basic monthly Charge, $7.28
Energy Charge: 7.381¢/kWh x1000, $73.81

Ontario: $192.33 + HST = $217.33
20% on peak hours, 20% on mid peak, 60% on low peak is the average
200 kwh peak,$32.2, 200 mid, $22.8, 600 low, $42, Total $97
Line loss charge + $11.19
Basic Monthly Charge + $24.07
Smart meter entity charge + $0.79
Debt retirement + $7
Regulatory charge + $5.95
Delivery charge + $46.33
(distribution charge, $33.90, + transmission connection,+ $4.99, + transmission network + $7.19, + smart meter entity charge, 25 cents)

Quebec: $67.89
Basic Monthly Charge, $12.19
Energy Charge: 5.57¢/kWh x1000, $55.70

New Brunswick: $124.96
Basic Monthly Charge, $22.46
Energy Charge: 10.25 ¢/kWh x1000, 102.50

Nova Scotia: $135.43
TOU billing
Basic Monthly Charge, $18.82
Energy Charge: break down 20 peak/20 mid/60 low
Peak=19.305¢/kWh, Medium=14.947¢/kWh, low=8.020¢/kWh
Peak =38.60 medium= 29.89 low=48.12

Newfoundland: $127.46
Basic charge, $15.68
Energy Charge: 11.178¢/kWh x1000, $111.78

PEI: $124.96

That 2040 data is too optimistic for renewables. Many of the current installed facilities will be closed down as their re and re costs will be too high to justify especially without government subsidies.