Theo1000
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- Theo
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- Shawnee, KS
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I’d love to onshore but we need about 50 million new people to make all the things we import. Right now it is tough to find people to staff $100,000 type jobs, so not sure we need to be looking at $10,000 type jobs. While battery cell final assembly is a clean room type activity, it is also mostly automated. The actual mineral and casing production is closer to a $10,000 job type activity.
That said being dependent on China type countries is not a good idea long term. As EU is finding out WRT Russia. These are not countries to trust. Automation is not cheap but we may have to pay more and automate.
WRT renewable, never understand the variable production polemics. Our grid managers know very well how to forecast and here in the MW the SPP can tell you 10 days out + / - 1-2% what the power output is going to be minute by minute. Its cheap cheap power folks not withstanding these learned university folks from 2017, an eternity away in term of renewable industry, and to be ignored.
I and anyone else can go purchase power for under $30 / mwh on the open market. Amortized wind farm west of me, no PTC, sells power under $15 / mwh on open market. We are smart enough to figure out how to ship it around and use it. Where I live it rains maybe 12 days in a year, yet we find ways to store and ship the water so no one does without. Never understand this logic of saying humans are dumb enough not to figure out how to use cheap electricity because it is only available in periodic process. Its cheap folks, count your blessing (literally), and enjoy it….
That said being dependent on China type countries is not a good idea long term. As EU is finding out WRT Russia. These are not countries to trust. Automation is not cheap but we may have to pay more and automate.
WRT renewable, never understand the variable production polemics. Our grid managers know very well how to forecast and here in the MW the SPP can tell you 10 days out + / - 1-2% what the power output is going to be minute by minute. Its cheap cheap power folks not withstanding these learned university folks from 2017, an eternity away in term of renewable industry, and to be ignored.
I and anyone else can go purchase power for under $30 / mwh on the open market. Amortized wind farm west of me, no PTC, sells power under $15 / mwh on open market. We are smart enough to figure out how to ship it around and use it. Where I live it rains maybe 12 days in a year, yet we find ways to store and ship the water so no one does without. Never understand this logic of saying humans are dumb enough not to figure out how to use cheap electricity because it is only available in periodic process. Its cheap folks, count your blessing (literally), and enjoy it….
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