Naas: Xcel acknowledges massive cost of 100 percent renewables

[Jer]

Agreed. We should base all of our energy production based solely on cost. It's worked well for China.

[20X11]

Don't even get me started on the DIRTY business that involves power transmission. They discredited and killed off Tesla a hundred years + ago because his ideas involved FREE power for everyone. Edison and his crooked bankers (JP Morgan) had to eliminate Tesla so we could PAY for power forever and live with the unsightly infrastructure to delver and meter (charge us) for power. Add to that the fact that even though we each have a 100, 125, or 200 amp panel to our houses, the companies depend on none of us using that full capacity we pay for. The shared transformers for each 5-6 homes are only 400 amp transformers. It's all BS, and they charge us for more than we need/use, raise our rates without need, and can never provide the reliability over the long term that they promise.

[Gman]

We have so much natural gas now that it's being burned to get rid of it (flaring). I sure wish it was being burned to make electricity.

[ray1970]

I don?t think they?re flairing it because of an over abundance. They?re going after the oil. With oil being about $60 a drum and the gas maybe $7 per thousand cubic feet they could care less about the gas. Also, when you bring up the liquids you can pump it into tanks and have trucks haul it off. Natural gas would need to be compressed and pushed into a pipeline. The producers would have to have a customer for the gas and contracts would likely demand a specific volume at a specific pressure and gas doesn?t get from the producers to the buyers without being transported on somebody else?s pipeline for a fee.

Just easier to flare it and get the liquids they?re after. Heck, if they could just vent it to atmosphere they probably would. Greenhouse gas and fugitive emissions laws probably require them to burn it.

[TRnCO]

I hate to know what the eastern plains of Colo. are going to look like in 10 years, 20 years, etc. from now. It's already amazing how damn many turbines are out there. Thousands and more it seems every day. Drive I-70 at night when you can see all the red blinkies and it's astonishing to wonder just how many more they need to get to 100% renewable. Ruining the land scape for sure.

[Gman]

Have to be able to store it for when the wind isn't blowing.

[roberth]

Have to be able to store it for when the wind isn't blowing.

Don't be silly. If we all wish hard enough wind and solar will be viable, now and in the future.

[BushMasterBoy]

A long time ago there was a big swamp. For millions of years this swamp flourished creating a huge biomass. Then a large multiple of asteroid strikes buried this biomass. The biomass was transformed to fossil fuels. The burning of these fossil fuels alters the atmosphere of the planet. If we alter the atmosphere and the climate too drastically there are going to be repercussions. The bad part is that all this carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans killing the plankton reducing the oxygen levels. The polar ice caps and all the glaciers melt. The sea level becomes much higher. Because the temperatures are so high, we have famines due to crop failures.
I have seen Pentagon reports discussing going to war because other nations violated emissions protocols causing flooding, famines, etc.

As Americans we are 4.27% of the earths population. We consume 97% of the world fossil fuels production. 7,000,000,000 humans and 327 million are Americans. I just hope this doesn't end up like the Pentagon analysts predict.

[clodhopper]

A long time ago there was a big swamp. For millions of years this swamp flourished creating a huge biomass. Then a large multiple of asteroid strikes buried this biomass. The biomass was transformed to fossil fuels. The burning of these fossil fuels alters the atmosphere of the planet. If we alter the atmosphere and the climate too drastically there are going to be repercussions. The bad part is that all this carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans killing the plankton reducing the oxygen levels. The polar ice caps and all the glaciers melt. The sea level becomes much higher. Because the temperatures are so high, we have famines due to crop failures.
I have seen Pentagon reports discussing going to war because other nations violated emissions protocols causing flooding, famines, etc.

As Americans we are 4.27% of the earths population. We consume 97% of the world fossil fuels production. 7,000,000,000 humans and 327 million are Americans. I just hope this doesn't end up like the Pentagon analysts predict.

Do you apply any critical thought before regurgitating something you found on the internets? 97%? https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/03...-fossil-fuels/

[BushMasterBoy]

Do you apply any critical thought before regurgitating something you found on the internets? 97%? https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/03...-fossil-fuels/

I say the same to you. Did you even graduate any college?