Is US ready to shut down power plants?

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(07-05-2023, 08:09 PM)pally Wrote: History has long shown that the majority of business people will not willingly spend money modernizing their plants until forced to.

Yep.  But the real kicker here is that these kinds of laws will phase out old plants that renewables are going to make obsolete anyway.  It's like making a law that outlaws leaded fuel gasoline, when none of those types of vehicles have been made for decades.  

Regardless of the far lefts vision of a completely renewable future, the rest of us must livei n the real world where renewables have a HUGE sustainability problem.  Storage cells don't exist, nor the science to make storage cells large enough to store power for the grid for more than a couple hours.  If a wind storm destroys a wind farm or a hurricane a solar farm, that's power off the grid for years.  Renewable energy is also further a fallacy because solar panels go bad, and need replaced, wind turbine break down, and need maintenance.  The parts to replace them take HUGE amounts of energy to produce, and while they're down, where does the power come from?  No where is the answer.  

Thus until power storage technology leaps a hundreds years in a day or Fusion Power technology over comes it's hurdles and advances two centuries in a night, we are stuck with some amount of HCs in our future just to limit the effects of renewables lack of sustainability.

Funny really.  if Biden just listened to the European major oil companies, they'd get on board with their plans, which show a 70% reduction in HC production by 2050, with the gap being made up by Renewables.

Here's what my company is doing with Renewables.  Currently TTE is the 4th largest oil company in the world - but the #1 investor of the major energy companies in renewables.  And this is all true.  No BS, grand standing placation.  I have colleagues who have left the HC exploration side of the business to move to these other business units.  TTE's renewables budget dwarfs our HC exploration budget.

https://totalenergies.com/energy-expertise/exploration-production/renewable-energies/solar-energy-and-wind-energy