When It Comes to Electricity Generation, Innumeracy Kills!

You know all those grand plans to electrify everything in America—at the same time we switch from fossil fuels to wind, solar, and other “renewables”? What if the people drawing up those plans can’t do basic math? Francis Menton, who runs the website Manhattan Contrarian, joins us next Tuesday, Feb. 15th on From the Stacks to discuss what happens when we apply basic math—not algebra, not calculus, not differential equations, just basic math—to such plans, and fill in the numbers about generating capacity, actual generation, space needed, storage capacity, and the prices for all those things. If you’re not afraid you’re going to face frequent and prolonged blackouts in a bankrupt country overrun with wind turbines, solar panels, and giant batteries, you’re not paying attention.