{"id":418,"date":"2008-04-21T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=418"},"modified":"2008-04-21T06:44:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T13:44:21","slug":"the-baseload-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"The Baseload Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Thomas Blakeslee of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attitudefactor.com\/clearlight.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >Clearlight Foundation<\/a> wrote a piece for Renewable Energy World on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/news\/reinsider\/story?id=52157\" target=\"_blank\" >the coming baseload crunch<\/a>. It&#8217;s well worth your time to read the article in its entirety.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe core thesis to the piece is that adding wind and solar are great, but they&#8217;re both intermittent power sources and there is only so much intermittent supply that should be added to the grid. We&#8217;ve heard different levels, 20% being the most commonly accepted figure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBlakeslee gives an impassioned argument on why we should be paying much more attention to geothermal power as an energy source &#8211; something that certainly resonates with us &#8211; due to resource availability, superior capacity factor, and the advances in harvest technologies that have appeared over the last 30 years.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Thomas Blakeslee of the Clearlight Foundation wrote a piece for Renewable Energy World on the coming baseload crunch. It&#8217;s well worth your time to read the article in its entirety. The core thesis to the piece is that adding wind and solar are great, but they&#8217;re both intermittent power sources and there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-6K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}