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I’ve read thoughtful, semi-thoughtful, stupid and blatant hyper-partisan articles on what happens now that we have a Congress rules by the current version of the Democrats. One semi-thoughtful article was about the need to return to the push for Green energy, net zero and everything that comes with that.
Years ago, maybe 18 at this point, I had the pleasure of working for a company supplying raw materials that were being used for wind turbines, and the emerging energy storage systems industry. That put me in touch with a lot of electrical engineers and honestly, I was jealous because if I could go back in time, I would have studied electrical engineering as that’s always a fascinating topic to me.
When I was dealing with these people on a regular basis, I learned some of them thought of themselves as explorers. They were going into the unknown. They knew that the current technology of wind, solar and battery storage could never supply the world’s energy needs. Math doesn’t lie, but their hope was they would stumble upon an Edison-lightbulb type moment when something never before discovered would fill the engineering gap between hope and reality.
It still hasn’t and I doubt if will. I suspect we’ll be flooded with clean energy proposals and like before, all it will do is make a few people very rich, raise electricity prices, and accomplish nothing.
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