Sometimes people have to learn things the hard way, even when the lesson is already painfully obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still don't realize that electricity isn't something you can afford to have be anything other 100% reliable.
I've learned from perusing garbage on Reddit that a lot of people have totally no idea about how any of electricity distribution works. But, since they are on Reddit they know everything about it and are 100% certain the issues are due to right wing politicians, deregulation, rich people, and capitalism.
I've been reading up on it a lot and find it rather interesting myself, perhaps since it's slightly similar to the work I do albeit in a different field of utilities. It's way more complex than most understand and wind power isn't the whole problem. Of course if you mention just one windmill is down they will remind you of this. Lots of lessons to be learned from this, one of which is that wind power is not perfectly reliable. That should have been obvious, and those forecasting it know that already. It's one of those things though where ok you forecast the windmills won't do shit, but there's no where else to get power to make up the difference, so well here you are.
Sometimes people have to learn things the hard way, even when the lesson is already painfully obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still don't realize that electricity isn't something you can afford to have be anything other 100% reliable.
I've learned from perusing garbage on Reddit that a lot of people have totally no idea about how any of electricity distribution works. But, since they are on Reddit they know everything about it and are 100% certain the issues are due to right wing politicians, deregulation, rich people, and capitalism.
I've been reading up on it a lot and find it rather interesting myself, perhaps since it's slightly similar to the work I do albeit in a different field of utilities. It's way more complex than most understand and wind power isn't the whole problem. Of course if you mention just one windmill is down they will remind you of this. Lots of lessons to be learned from this, one of which is that wind power is not perfectly reliable. That should have been obvious, and those forecasting it know that already. It's one of those things though where ok you forecast the windmills won't do shit, but there's no where else to get power to make up the difference, so well here you are.
They're not so hot on food distribution either, in my experience.