NYTimes: Lack of Transmission Lines Is Restricting Wind Power

[boutons_deux]

"quickness of which NG plants can be spun up as opposed to coal plants. So fracking also helps wind and solar. I found that to be quite fascinating."

how does $4/unit NG power plants promote wind/solar?

[CosmicCowboy]

"quickness of which NG plants can be spun up as opposed to coal plants. So fracking also helps wind and solar. I found that to be quite fascinating."

how does $4/unit NG power plants promote wind/solar?

Because it is the quick, clean alternative that can be spun up quickly when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, dumbass. Coal plants take days to put online or take offline. Gas plants they just fire the up like starting a car.

[The Reckoning]

wind turbines and transmission lines are find. you can still have your cattle graze around them.

[boutons_deux]

Because it is the quick, clean alternative that can be spun up quickly when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, dumbass. Coal plants take days to put online or take offline. Gas plants they just fire the up like starting a car.

clean?

TX legislature, a bi-annual joke, is considering dropping $400M to repair roads in fracked areas, externalities the under-taxed carbon-extractors dump on taxpayers, aka oilco gain, taxpayer cost.