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That is a hell of a good idea. If you want to sell solar or wind power to the grid, you have to provide it on demand rather than when the wind blows or the sun shines. Wind or solar would have to be built in conjunction with hydro or something else. That would bring the economics home to roost.

Agreed! Former UK energy minister Amber Rudd flirted with this idea but then abandoned it, presumably upon learning that the price of electricity would more than double.

The problem is … that “clean, green, energy” is always coupled with “conservation”, “lowered expectations”, and an end to “consumerism”. In other words … to be “green” you have to live with less. Jimmy Carter FIRST put on a tattered sweater and told America to turn DOWN the thermostat and drive 55 (mph). You are now told that “you didn’t build that” and that “energy prices will necessarily rise”. To be green is to DENY yourself. Just as with every religious CULT ever invented by man … personal denial of pleasure and convenience = piety. To be a pius “green” you have to drive a Prius. You have to “learn to live with less”. You have to “learn to live with brownouts and blackouts”. You have to “become a vegan”. You have to “buy local”. You have to never use a plastic shopping bag. There are MORE “sacred” Green hoops to jump through than the most complicated Catholic catechism.
Smh … yeah … just TRY to FORCE the RE Green ghouls to provide “continuous”, “reliable” energy … and you will be TOLD how sinful you are for even wanting such a thing. That you have succumbed to “the flesh” … and not the “Holy spiritual awakening of Greenness”

In other words … to be “green” you have to live with less.
That is what put me off renewable energy for many years. It wasn’t until I started working with a certain unconventional power generation technology that RE didn’t seem so flaky to me.
I didn’t consider it as a means of “wealth redistribution” or punishment for living in a capitalist society. Instead, I, being an engineer, was interested in the technology. (“Producing power from sunlight. Hey, what a neat idea!”)
And, yes, I am quite skeptical about renewable energy policies and how they’re being implemented. There is little sound technological basis for what’s being inflicted upon us.
As for living with less, I learned to do that during the 1980s when I was unemployed due to economic conditions during much of that decade.