If you are going to make accusations and insults, best to have truth on your side. Your post contained zero links, or even any reference to, data. That’s putting aside the many factual errors and omissions in your post, which I pointed out and you do not seem to dispute. Three orders of magnitude, huh?
Tiresome, indeed.
As for reading comprehension, consider that if something is “economically inefficient” that suggests that it is impractical. If it makes you happy, replace the word impractical in my comment with economically inefficient.
In place of insults, a more useful response would have been one such as Phil posted, providing actual data. Perhaps you are above it all: “I’m too important to have to give any evidence for my claims.”
It does not support storing electrical energy unless you add pumps. The energy density of the volume of water behind a dam is trivial compared an equivalent volume of liquid fuels or coal, so hydro is not actually a great store of energy at all.
Not to mention that you can’t build hydro just anywhere, and many of the places that are naturally good fits are already so equipped.
(If you have the money to buy pumps for hydro, why is that economically better than a fuel-powered generating station? I haven’t run the numbers on this, so I’m curious if you can make a case for it.)
IMNSHO opinion, solar and wind are always a net negative to any large grid.
Got to agree with that. It is very difficult (impossible?) to provide reliable 24/7 electric power from intermittent sources. Inevitably, somewhere down the road, the mandates & subsidies for so-called “renewables” will become unaffordable and will be withdrawn – probably at the same time as fairly short-lived windmills wear out and solar panels degrade. It will be interesting to see whether future decision-makers will continue with so-called “renewables” once they have to compete with other sources on a level playing field.
Got to agree with that too. The problems with nuclear power are overstated. Nuclear “waste” is actually unused fuel. Modern designs can be a great advance. We just need to gain experience by actually building them – as the Chinese & Russians are doing.
