OPINION:
The Democrats’ aim is fatally flawed, in Colorado and everywhere else. None of the advocates and supporters of the Green New Deal seem to care that it is fatally and fundamentally flawed. Their faulty aim will cause America to lose much of its electricity and transportation. It’s a fool’s errand to replace fossil fuels that produce electricity continuously with wind and solar electricity, which is non-producing most of the time. Even with expansion and addition of storage, wind and sun are not able to meet current U.S. electricity demand. Attempting to eliminate fossil fuels for transportation by adding electric-vehicle demand to the electricity grid only makes it worse. The aim should be to develop full-time alternatives to wind and sun electricity generation with minimal storage.
Experts opine that adding electric vehicles to the electricity grid will likely double the requirement for generation and storage. It will also complicate grid management. Further increases in wind-sun generation and storage are also needed to accommodate bad weather, when wind and sun don’t generate for days at a time.
While the debate about carbon dioxide goes on and on, there’s no debate about electricity. If the demand for electricity is not satisfied, Americans’ lives will become short and miserable.
GEORGE F. STEEG
Potomac Falls, Va.
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