Doesn’t Idaho have plenty of renewable energy sources and can’t those provide for our needs?
Renewable energy has an important role to play. On our website, www.alternatenergyholdings.com, you can see how we are actively involved in researching renewable energy. In fact, a biofuels plant is a significant component of our proposal, using excess reactor heat to produce biofuels from local crops and ag waste. But renewables cannot meet our “base load” requirements because more than half the time, there is no sun or wind. The base load is the form of energy that is at the core of our civilization’s power supply, and it must be absolutely reliable. Typical base load sources are fossil fuels, nuclear and sometimes hydro – although hydro is subject to the weather, like most other forms of renewables. And even renewable sources have problems – wind farms are a significant factor in bird and bat deaths and in some cases must be shut off for months at a time during migration season. Hydro is no longer a viable option due to environmental concerns and now only powers about 6% of the U.S.
