Finally some good news

You may have already read this information, yet it is so good it needs sharing. Apparently on March 30th wind power made up 20% of the electricity in use for that day surpassing coal and becoming the #2 power source for the day.

Now if you say, only for one day what is the big deal? Any transition of such an enormous system always transitions slowly and there will be fits and starts as the change happens.

This day is proof the change is happening, unfortunately not fast enough, but is happening. 

Just think if ten years ago, coal company CEOs had a brain and understood what was about to happen and started investing their profits into wind power. We would be much further along and those companies would be viable companies going forward. They didn’t so they aren’t and it hurt us in going to renewable energy sooner. 

Capitalism can be good if applied with the big picture in mind and it doesn’t hurt if the people in charge aren’t a bunch of stuck in the mud oafs. 

Add in Trump thinking dragging us back to the previous century would make us great again and support a slower death for coal and we are still behind the curve. If we had jumped on the bandwagon sooner we would be leading the world into the 21st century. Now that would have kept us a world leader in energy and the modern economy which yes you guessed it, would have kept us great so to speak.

I have been touting renewable energy , mainly solar, since the 1970′s and yes was made fun of it for decades. Over ten years ago, I started this blog and put my thoughts into the public sphere where I have been encouraging going to renewable energy ever since. 

Originally my desire to change to solar was more related to reducing pollution, climate change wasn’t even on the public radar for decades, but I persevered. So today is or actually March 30th is a great bit of news to hear. Let’s hope that the fits and starts as we evolve into renewable energy pass us quickly and we prove that innovation and public good can work together to take us into a better brave new world.

Cheers