Michael Ramirez is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His cartoons are syndicated by Creators. Michael won his second Pulitzer while at Investor's Business Daily.
Actually, in recent years, wind and solar are LOWERING electricity prices. But deniers gotta deny.
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You mean with all of the additional standby backup generation in addition to the RENEWABLES. That double the amount of equipment is bringing the price down?
Is that what you’re saying.???
See the problem is is that I work in the industry and I know how much more efficient natural gas turbines have become and I also know that many companies are now running three gas turbines and extracting the heat from them and running a steam turbine as well.
This method has helped bring the thermal efficiency of gas turbines up past the 65% mark.
But nice try…
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Michael Ramirez
Actually, in recent years, wind and solar are LOWERING electricity prices. But deniers gotta deny.
You mean with all of the additional standby backup generation in addition to the RENEWABLES. That double the amount of equipment is bringing the price down?
Is that what you’re saying.???
See the problem is is that I work in the industry and I know how much more efficient natural gas turbines have become and I also know that many companies are now running three gas turbines and extracting the heat from them and running a steam turbine as well.
This method has helped bring the thermal efficiency of gas turbines up past the 65% mark.
But nice try…