Joe Romm’s Renewable Ravings: ‘Reaches a new intellectual low…The claim is made that if US was foolish enough to install solar at same rate as Germans then it would be a 100% solar utopia by 2026’
'...with everyone's home completely powered by renewables except on cloudy days and at night and in the mornings and late afternoons. We could all pretend that the new fossil fueled power stations running 24/7 as backup don't exist in this Rommantic Green wonderland of the future. We could also pretend that the crippling cost of this part-time energy is OK because it is 'green'