Howard_T

The Texas 'Wind' Emergency, the Smart Grid and the Dumb Grid

It doesn't matter how smart your grid is if the supply to that grid does not have excess capacity to meet sudden increases in demand and is unreliable. Wind and solar will not be the answer in the near- or mid-term. Please don't tell me that we can do this as long as 'the government subsidizes it'. The best answer for providing environmentally clean, abundant, and reasonably priced energy lies in nuclear power. It has been proven safe, and as long as the nimbys and tree huggers are not allowed hearings of more than reasonable objections to the siting of plants and treatment of waste, it can be less expensive than most current methods of generation. Obama's campaign promise was that nuclear power would not be off the table, but his actions since election seem to indicate otherwise. Too bad that reason has to fall to partisan politics.