I ask that rhetorically because I don’t believe you are, but if I didn’t know better I would think so after reading Ron Fink (“Rethink renewables,” March 25) and Mark Henry’s (“The year the music died,” March 25) editorials in March.
I see the two most prominent opinion pieces both trashing renewables with many factual errors and omissions and see nothing from the science-based perspective to provide balance.
I get that these are opinion pieces, but a good faith rebuttal could and should be made to these opinions, one that mentions the Morro Bay battery storage proposal, includes some clarifying facts about Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s maintenance (assuming there are some to answer his worries), and picks apart the many straw men and debunked arguments about climate change and renewables in general made by both authors, especially the ones making it sound like renewable advocates want 100 percent solar tomorrow. We don’t. We need storage to be built, too. And the Morro Bay proposal is a perfect example of major efforts to do so.
Thank you for your journalism.
Justin Bradshaw
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Apr 8-18, 2021.
Justin, why is disagreeing with you regarding oil resource utilization “climate-hating”? It’s noticeable that disagreement with liberal people is “hateful” or “racist”. Remember when we just disagreed and it was called a difference of “opinion”? Think about what you are saying labeling things with hate or racist intention. Disagreement isn’t worth fighting about except verbally, but labeling someone publicly as a “racist” or “hateful” is when the gloves come off. Usually the folks doing the labeling are hiding behind a computer screen in their home, (SISSY ASSES!) where they won’t encounter differing opinion or vitriol IN PERSON. Real men and women of character and substance say what they mean and think about it before they turn to labeling language. Justin, I disagree with you…I don’t hate the climate. And I don’t hate you for your difference in opinion. God Bless..
Industry leaders throughout the world, after considerable study, have concluded That investment in renewables is a considerably better long-term financial play than sinking money into fossil fuel technology. Bottom line is that fossil fuel technology no longer makes economic sense in the long run. Better to get on board with this early rather than trying to dig in and drown while trying to stop a rising tide.
Justin- I’ve talked with you several times about clean energy, and although I agree that we should use EVERY solution possible (and innovate them all), there are obvious disadvantages with certain forms of intermittent energy supplies. We need more nuclear. Battery storage will not be enough to compensate for more solar. It is not enough right now.
Being honest about the limitations of renewables does not correlate to “climate hating.”