Left to our own, we will choose the lowest cost energy available.
That is why we have oil, coal, nuke, natural gas, and hysro. With some govt help to each of those, they continue to be the cheapest for various regions.
Alternatives will cost more.
Someday we will need to switch, when we find an alternative that is cheaper than what we are using now.
The govt dabbling & helping out certain alternatives is cool. Get that 1-2% online, and see how thay actually do work in the real world. All the other energy sources also got that starting boost, and continue to get help from the govt for infrastructure, etc.
Mandating some sort of huge shift in lass than 2 decades is crazy.
Ethanol & soyoil in diesel are a couple of examples. In my corner of the world, they actually make sense as the 2-15% of liquid fuels they are. It would not make any sense at all to mandate 50% of our liquid fuels come from ethanol or biodiesel - that would just be grandstanding.
Likewise, trying to get more than 5% of our electricity from wind generators in 15 years would be insane - building the heads, fabricating the blades - it takes resources & time. We can't make the capacity to build that many funcioning towers that fast.
It is just grandstanding to an audience that does not understand.
But, encouraging, and govt help to these sorts of alternitives is not a bad thing, if realistic goals and realistic build schedules are set.
Wind energy ebbs & flows, as the wind goes. It could never be more than 30% of our country's production, unless some massive storage systems are developed, which themselves become a drain on the efficiency of our power system.
But, perhaps getting to that 30% mark sooner, rather than later, would be a good move?
We need reality & time for these sorts of things. Not the political promises & mis-information.
Put it a total different way. People switched from LP records to CD's in about 5 years - because the CD was so much better, and was actually cheaper to produce. That was a rapid switch!!!!!
Society & the market will choose the best option for themselves, if it is out there.
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