Re “Action on climate change” (Our Views, July 23) and “Sandbridge needs answers about wind plan’s potential effects” (Other Views, July 23): So you want action on climate change — here is the answer from Sandbridge regarding the energy from an offshore wind farm — “There has got to be a better way.” Another call for pixie dust as a solution.This administration — which has no clue about how to implement a significant renewables energy program — will keep running into this problem. Any solution requires reliable baseload energy. The California wildfires pointed to that as did the energy crisis in Texas that froze some of the wind turbines. Clearly, relying on one energy source is an insanity. We do that with a combination of natural gas and electricity, the latter derived now primarily by burning fossil fuels, which could be replaced by wind, sun or nuclear.In…
To cut fossil fuels, we must have better transmission lines and energy storage sites – The Virginian-Pilot
