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So no maybe about it, lets be clear on that. Using that logic we were all best off when we lived in a hunter gatherer society! We've been talking about automation taking away jobs as long as we've been talking about the "paperless office" and yet what do you know we're at 3.9% unemployment and...

You're posts are devolving to make less and less sense. If you don't agree that 5 jobs are better than 1 job and can't articulate anything then yes, it's not with wasting the time on a conversation.

Pretty sure we're all better off after the invention of the combine, even the people who used to work in the fields!

Do you or do you not agree that the ratio of jobs building solar panels to jobs installing solar panels is something on the order of 1:100? Hopefully you understood my numbers were for illustrative purposes, if not let me make that explicit but let me also make explicit that the ratio is listed...

Let me ask you an honest question. If you have an industry that makes a relatively raw product that creates 100 jobs, and and industry that primarily uses that product that has 1,000,000 jobs, would you advocate for losing half of the million jobs to get the 100 manufacturing jobs? That's...

If you rolled Enron good on ya! I got to experience the rolling blackouts they caused in CA with their shenanigans purposely taking plants offline. Bastards managed to set the industry back a decade at least.

Out of curiosity how did you deal with something like that in the days before DR? Presumably you didn't have that much on reserve, did it take long enough to spin down you could call up what I presume was a good portion of the gas capacity or did we just have more brownouts back then?

Listen, I'm sure you have some expertise in something. But it's clearly not this. Look around, it's grownups having a grownup conversation on a subject that's obviously way over your head to which you're not only not adding value but destroying it. If you're interested in learning about it...

I'd be interested in seeing that Brattel study, the link is broken. Keep in mind this is somewhat dated info. For example, the PTC for wind $14/MWH this year and steps down to $9.60 next year, not $23 as cited. And keep in mind we only pay the production tax credit when the electricity is...

Good points on reactive power (and great to have a discussion at this level!) I'd also throw demand response into the mix here, we've got over 15 gigawatts of it in PJM alone and it responds faster than any generator.

I couldn't be more clear, I said end all subsidies...ALL renewable and fossil fuel and nuclear and make fossil fuel and nuclear pay for all the costs they incur. The renewable industry is for it, I'm for it, the only people against it are the fossil fuel industry and apparently you! First you're...

That's an interesting point you make. Let's talk about subsidies. The fossil fuel industry get's about $25B a year in subsidies in the U.S. And those are direct subsidies and tax credits, not counting the costs of running the EPA and Coast Guard spill prevention and response organizations(when's...

First off you were making a reliability argument against renewables in ERCOT and I was questioning that, nothing about the environmental aspect which I am anything but blind to. Second, I agree with you regarding batteries, that's why I very specifically spoke to simple cycle gas for firming and...

Actually the scary part is that FERC doesn't have a say in it if they go the 202(c) route. "But Wellinghoff said FERC’s approval authority over cost recovery rates under 202(c) is more of an implementation step and would not allow the commission to block any proposed subsidies. “It's a very...

First off great to discuss with someone who knows a ton about this. A couple of point so of pushback. First the statement "Renewables can make for lousy baseload - ask anyone who’s traded ERCOT." You know that ERCOT is one of the two ISOs that doesn't have a capacity market. You also know that...

So we'll assume that you now realize that Trump's attempt to nationalize coal plants flies in the face of everything you say you believe in. This plan literally blows up all the wholesale power markets. All the electricity used in the country gets more expensive and the market for it less...

Handicapped how? A combined cycle natural gas plant now produces power at a lower cost than any coal plant ever has, even when they were allowed to kill thousands polluting the air and destroy both our natural environment and our cities with acid rain (which you must support, screw the...

I would add to this excellent reply that it's very helpful if you can find a niche, generally a group you're already part of. That could be anything from model train enthusiasts to your local mosque. You won't get rich but if you pick a big enough niche you could make a living and quickly reach...

Good point. Those British Overseas Territories are tricky little bastards, every one of them has widely different levels of "Britishness" when it comes to British law. I have no idea where they would stand on that one, but I'm sure there's an army of attorneys who figure those things out for a...

Let's be perfectly clear here, renewables absent the hydro that's been around since the 1930s produces less than 10% of U.S. power (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3). Coal and nuclear plants are going out of business because they're more expensive than gas. Full stop. The...