True. But there is an easy fix. Trouble is Industry, and their Govt protectors, always say,
"We can't afford that! It's too cheap!"
If your high tech digital computerized solar energy source is DUMBER than a few tones of Rotating Iron, you're doing it wrong!
One company, Apparent.com , has been able to use solar farms exactly like a REAL spinning generator, for a decade. But California doesn't want it. Because it would save consumers a Billion Dollars a Month. (And cost utilities some good faction of a billion a month....)
There is no magic in the momentum spinning Iron provides. Grid operator tools are standardized. But Solar was not required to build in standard controls. It's easy, but the legislature let them skip basic safety controls because... that keeps fossil fuel in business.
Since 1922 all Legislatures have been heavily controlled by Fossil interests. They doth protest too much. California just passed a law to Import more "unspecified imports" aka COAL power from Wyoming and they pretend its environmental...
We could use some Engineers in positions of power who don't have to answer to Wall St needs.
True. But there is an easy fix. Trouble is Industry, and their Govt protectors, always say,
"We can't afford that! It's too cheap!"
If your high tech digital computerized solar energy source is DUMBER than a few tones of Rotating Iron, you're doing it wrong!
One company, Apparent.com , has been able to use solar farms exactly like a REAL spinning generator, for a decade. But California doesn't want it. Because it would save consumers a Billion Dollars a Month. (And cost utilities some good faction of a billion a month....)
There is no magic in the momentum spinning Iron provides. Grid operator tools are standardized. But Solar was not required to build in standard controls. It's easy, but the legislature let them skip basic safety controls because... that keeps fossil fuel in business.
Since 1922 all Legislatures have been heavily controlled by Fossil interests. They doth protest too much. California just passed a law to Import more "unspecified imports" aka COAL power from Wyoming and they pretend its environmental...
We could use some Engineers in positions of power who don't have to answer to Wall St needs.