What the Migration to Renewable Energy Looks Like

A reader notes: Renewable power generation technology faces three inherent problems: transmission, storage, and intermittent generating dynamics. Large scale economically viable storage solves the problems of all three to a major extent. We can but live in hope, and encourage all those thousands of researchers working around the globe on this technology.

There is no reason to “live in hope.” Fortunately, there’s more to it than that, when we include the non-variable forms of renewables, i.e., run-of-river hydro (pictured), biomass and geothermal, as well as advanced nuclear, smart-grid, efficiency, electric transportation, etc. It’s also not ecologically necessary to get rid of all fossil fuels; natural gas, an important component to meeting demand in this rapidly shifting energy environment, will be around for a long time to come.

What’s required here is the Will of the People, and I believe that soon we’ll be able to turn our attention in that direction, just as soon as Donald Trump finishes getting rid of everyone who does not look and think like him and the red-neck rabble he leads. 🙂