http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/why-we-need-to-fight-for-cape-wind-now/ For a thriving New England Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/why-we-need-to-fight-for-cape-wind-now/#comment-2367 joe Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:34:35 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=11820#comment-2367 Cape Wind is like a very clean car that only starts every third time I turn the key (#intermittency). I suppose if I were rich enough to buy THREE of these clean cars, I would have a reasonable probability of ONE (or more!) of them starting in the morning (#overcapacity; #curtailment). Or maybe I could ask to borrow my neighbor's clean car, in hopes he doesn't need it that day (#interconnection). But it still wouldn't be anywhere near as reliable as my trusty Toyota (#naturalgas). Maybe the right thing for me to do would be to drive to work only on the days when the clean car starts, and stay home and meditate on the others, but that kind of restraint isn't in my genetic or cultural DNA (#demandresponse). So realistically, if I buy the clean, intermittent car, I'm still going to keep the Toyota and use it two days out of three (#baseload). This will not solve the climate problem (#stillenoughGHGtofrytheplanet). But maybe I will feel better about myself. Or maybe what I really need is a clean car that starts every morning (#nuclear). Cape Wind is like a very clean car that only starts every third time I turn the key (#intermittency). I suppose if I were rich enough to buy THREE of these clean cars, I would have a reasonable probability of ONE (or more!) of them starting in the morning (#overcapacity; #curtailment). Or maybe I could ask to borrow my neighbor’s clean car, in hopes he doesn’t need it that day (#interconnection). But it still wouldn’t be anywhere near as reliable as my trusty Toyota (#naturalgas). Maybe the right thing for me to do would be to drive to work only on the days when the clean car starts, and stay home and meditate on the others, but that kind of restraint isn’t in my genetic or cultural DNA (#demandresponse). So realistically, if I buy the clean, intermittent car, I’m still going to keep the Toyota and use it two days out of three (#baseload). This will not solve the climate problem (#stillenoughGHGtofrytheplanet). But maybe I will feel better about myself. Or maybe what I really need is a clean car that starts every morning (#nuclear).

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