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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (538)7/3/2008 1:14:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
Yes there is less variable cost for wind than for coal, but the arguments that either wind or solar is or very soon will be consistently cheaper than coal only make sense if your ignoring the point that the coal plant can produce near flat out most of the time, while solar and wind are often at well below maximum capacity, or even at zero production.

Eventually, with more expensive coal, and improvements in the other sources, they will both very likely be consistently cheaper than coal, but we aren't there yet, and we aren't just about there.
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