Senator Brewer’s Weekly Update

I don’t want to see Nebraska covered in industrial wind turbines and solar panels. They tear apart rural communities. They kill endangered wildlife, and they make terrible neighbors. Worst of all, I think it is foolish to spend billions of barrowed federal tax revenue our children and grandchildren will have to pay back on electricity generators that cannot stand on their own without massive federal subsidies. These systems have two fatal flaws that will never be overcome. They are intermittent generators. They cannot be made reliable because we cannot control when the sun shines or the wind blows. They also cannot be “scaled” to deliver industrial supplies of electricity. Every megawatt of wind or solar generation in Nebraska has to be backed up by a megawatt of traditional generation (coal, natural gas, nuclear). Out-of-state “renewable” companies are only here to harvest the corrupt federal subsidy.

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