We can do better

It's time for a new approach to getting our energy.

I hesitiate to call him a friend; perhaps fellow traveler would be more appropriate since his playing field is well above mine.

But energy expert

Robert Bryce

has been gathering information on what he calls the Renewable Rejection Database for several years, and looking at it I found one thing missing: Delaware.

As the title of the database would imply, it covers those occasions where a group (generally governmental, but there are exceptions) expressed its objection to - or flat-out rejects, as in denies permission for - a renewable energy site to proceed. To that end, there are a handful of instances where the Ocean City town council just “downy oshun” from me in Maryland is cited due to their opposition to offshore wind turbines being placed in their viewshed. Moreover, people are starting to catch on about the poor economic choice of renewables.

While a number of jurisdictions have weighed in against these three-dimensional behemoths - which either cover many acres in the form of solar panels or tower hundreds of feet over the landscape or ocean where wind turbines are located - here in Delaware we just keep letting our farmland be ruined by acres and acres of slave labor-made solar panels that are usually imported from China and simply erected here. Sad thing is: we could cover all of the unused land in Delaware with solar panels and wind turbines and it may not be enough thanks to the Iron Law of Power Density, another thing Bryce explains.

The Power Of Power Density

For years I have harped on the subject of reliability when it comes to energy, often pointing out that solar isn’t effective after dark or on cloudy days and that the wind has to blow just so for turbines to be most effective. Unfortunately, we have a power grid which is predicated on having just enough power for its needs at all times.