But there are multiple ways to deal with that issue: a robust grid
that can ship electricity to where it’s needed; storage of various forms (batteries, but also maybe things like pumped hydro); dynamic pricing that encourages customers to use less power when it’s scarce and more when it isn’t; and some surge capacity — probably from relatively low-emission natural-gas-fired generators — to cope with whatever mismatch remains.
Notably, the adverse health effects of air pollution would be greatly reduced, and it’s quite possible
that lower health care costs would all by themselves make up for the costs of energy transition, even ignoring the whole saving-civilization-from-catastrophic-climate-change thing.
Why, then, are so many people on the right determined to block climate action,
and even trying to sabotage the progress we’ve been making on new energy sources?
Trump Gratuitously Rejects the Paris Climate Accord -
As Donald Trump does his best to destroy the world’s hopes of reining in climate change, let’s
be clear about one thing: This has nothing to do with serving America’s national interest.
Probably, but not by much: Technological progress in solar
and wind has drastically reduced their cost, and it looks as if the same thing is starting to happen with energy storage.
Pay any attention to modern right-wing discourse — including op-ed articles by top Trump officials — and you find deep hostility to any notion
that some problems require collective action beyond shooting people and blowing things up.
