re: #293 brookly red

Denmark has a smaller population than NYC…

Your point? Yes, converting a lot of our power grid to wind power would be a big project. We built the TVA. We were the arsenal of democracy. We built the interstate highway system. We can do this. We even have idle capacity.

Done right, done over time and with course corrections as we went, we’d put ourselves in a position where our downside would be nothing worse than slightly higher prices for electricity than if we’d stayed with coal. Our upside would be that when we came to the day where further use of coal was simply out of the question, the climate emergency had become so dire…we’d have POWER. Instead of having to go cold turkey and scrape by on our 20% of nuclear and hydro, we could cruise along at 60% or 80% of what we had before we gave up on coal.

And if it really worked well? We’d be able to sail into a future of plentiful electricity, balmy but not scorching summers, arguing vehemently about medicare and the revolution in the Spanish Sahara and the high cost of nanobot surgery.