Relax wrote:Coal/Gas get zero tax breaks, if they did, the whole greenie world would scream their names. They do not as they cannot do so as they do not exist. Wind Solar certainly get production tax incentives.
Are you stating as a fact that coal/gas doesn't get ANY tax breaks at all? Funny that, Colorado for example is wrestling with their budget due to the tax credits given to oil and gas companies there. Look to any state near the gulf and you'll see that oil and gas companies are getting tax breaks or credits.
Relax wrote:LCOE is a nice fiction currently as wind/solar offload all of their variability costs onto NG, Coal, transmission of said energy as well in all analysis and they are still subtracting cost of tax production credits in their analysis. And all this assuming the current length of life is valid. So far we know that their old length of life claims are 100% false. Not one single Turbine type has lasted on average more than 15 years, let alone the claimed 30 of today in their LCOE. WHy? Wind, rain destroy the leading edges of the wind turbines and the gearboxes, main thrust bearings die about this time. Is anything different today? NO other than maybe the main bearings are better, but they have also gotten much larger and are not longevity tested.
Hell, some wind turbine locations are going through blades in less than 10 years. Is this in their LCOE? Hell no.
SO, no, whatever LCOE number you are using(EIA is my guess) it is an obvious fabricated lie for political purposes.
You do know that your argument above cost and length of life makes some flawed presumptions? I'll leave it up to you to find the flaws but I don't think you will.
Also, you use the word lie a bit freely. It's like the story about the man complaining that everyone he met was an asshole.