Since wind is inconsistent, natural gas plants are good compliments as that can ramp output up and down fast. On good or bad wind days, natural gas plant output can be ramped down. read more
Wind energy is of course commercially viable and is running neck-and-neck with natural gas as the cheapest form of energy. In the winter months, wind energy provides about 20% to 40% of Texas’ electricity. We just had a record output of 16 GW of wind the other day. read more
Hydroelectric Power . Moving water is a powerful entity responsible for lighting entire cities, even countries. Thousands of years ago the Greeks used water wheels, which picked up water in buckets around a wheel. The water's weight caused the wheel to turn, converting kinetic energy into mechanical energy for grinding grain and pumping water. read more
Nevertheless, wind advocates breeze through the fundamental problems of intermittent, unreliable energy and attempt to sell the idea of a wind-fueled future on the fiction that wind power can compete head-to-head with reliable sources of power like coal, nuclear power, or natural gas. read more