But there are multiple ways to deal with that issue: a robust grid<br />that can ship electricity to where it’s needed; storage of various forms (batteries, but also maybe things like pumped hydro); dynamic pricing that encourages customers to use less power when it’s scarce and more when it isn’t; and some surge capacity — probably from relatively low-emission natural-gas-fired generators — to cope with whatever mismatch remains.<br />Notably, the adverse health effects of air pollution would be greatly reduced, and it’s quite possible<br />that lower health care costs would all by themselves make up for the costs of energy transition, even ignoring the whole saving-civilization-from-catastrophic-climate-change thing.<br />Why, then, are so many people on the right determined to block climate action,<br />and even trying to sabotage the progress we’ve been making on new energy sources?<br />Trump Gratuitously Rejects the Paris Climate Accord -<br />As Donald Trump does his best to destroy the world’s hopes of reining in climate change, let’s<br />be clear about one thing: This has nothing to do with serving America’s national interest.<br />Probably, but not by much: Technological progress in solar<br />and wind has drastically reduced their cost, and it looks as if the same thing is starting to happen with energy storage.<br />Pay any attention to modern right-wing discourse — including op-ed articles by top Trump officials — and you find deep hostility to any notion<br />that some problems require collective action beyond shooting people and blowing things up.
