About 2% of all natural gas produced in the U.S. leaks into the atmosphere before reaching the end customer – about 600 billion cubic feet each year, or the annual gas consumption in Virginia. This, of course, is one of …
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Disentangling Natural Gas from Renewable Energy
Tagged with: About 2% of all natural gas produced in the U.S. leaks into the atmosphere, Advocates of Nuclear Energy, Carbon Fee and Dividend, continuing advancement of long-distance power transmission, levelized cost of solar and wind continue to fall, Natural Gas Renewable Energy, solar and wind are intermittent
Getting To 100% Clean Energy
How can we achieve our quest for 100% clean energy? Let’s start with the understanding that nuclear, while it’s very clean, is baseload, i.e., it can’t be ramped up to address the quite significantly changing loads that we experience through …
Nuclear and Renewables Complement One Another
Here’s a pro-nuke video I thought I’d pass along. Lots of truth and a small amount of misinformation–all punctuated with humor that I hope you’ll enjoy. A few points: • As suggested, we need to differentiate between the monetary and the …
How Much Do Solar and Wind Require Natural Gas Backup?
As I’m mentioned, I’m a part of a pro-nuke online community that has a strange antipathy toward renewables. One might think that proponents of one low-carbon energy solution would respect those of another, but not in this case. They offer …
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