Renewables are cheaper, and they don’t kill whales
New clean, utility-scale solar PV and onshore wind plus storage, and geothermal electrons are cheaper than power from dirty, new coal, gas peaking and nuclear generation. (Search: “Lazard LCOE+2024”) Yet Trump incorrectly claimed in a Jan. 20 speech to unaware supporters that power from those renewables is more expensive.
Trump also falsely asserted that our wind turbines were made in China. Lots are made here. More solar panels are too because Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act brought manufacturing back to the U.S. The Vestas Windsor wind-blade plant is Weld County’s third largest employer. Brighton also has nacelle (i.e., turbine housing) manufacturing. Vestas has invested $1 billion in those Colorado facilities.
Search for credible evidence that offshore wind farms do not kill whales. You’ll find scientific rebuttals of the repeated false “whale-killer” claim Trump made again on Jan. 20.
Because there is no ongoing fuel cost in wind and solar power generation, and coal and gas electric generation have fuel costs, Trump needs more renewables to reduce inflationary electricity prices. “Drill baby” is only another immaterial “solution” for promises he can’t keep. So, words sung in the inaugural “Battle Hymn of the Republic” should have been “truth is not marching on.”
Russ Doty, Greeley
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