[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 



 

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 10:27 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> The costs quoted do not include the cost of energy storage needed to meet reliability specifications.

 

>… The storage cost is already baked in so the intermittency disadvantage of solar and wind largely disappears.

 

John K Clark

 

 

They didn’t bake in the cost of storage when the state sold gullible California voters on the notion of a requirement for the power company to buy 30% of its power from renewable sources.  They underestimated or underreported the cost of bringing the renewable sources up to the required reliability specifications.  The power company explained all this, however the complicated and true was defeated by simple and misleading.  The slogan Clean Power Now wins over two pages of engineering analysis.

 

Result: the cost of power in California doubled in 8 years.  Now… the price is still going up, as more and more customers fail to pay the power bill.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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