It's Dry Out There. Turn Off the Lights

Whoooopsie!!

See Drought.

See Drought Run.

Run, drought, run!

See Hydropower Drop.

Drop Dead, Hydropower!  Drop Dead!!

...The magical thinking about renewable energy and President Biden's calls for the U.S. power grid to be 100% clean by 2035 is a pipe dream. 

The problem with renewable energy is sustainability. California and states in the Pacific Northwest have found out that out the hard way this summer as droughts and back-to-back heat waves have led to a plunge in hydropower capacity. The region produces a bulk of U.S. hydropower capacity. 

EIA estimates U.S. hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was in 2020. Hydropower generation in the Northwest, which includes the Columbia River Basin and parts of other Rocky Mountain states, is expected to be 12% lower than the prior year. Hydropower generation in California will be down a shocking 49% in 2021 than in 2020....

You may recall that England's Whirly-Power Fan Dance also dropped dead a month ago when the wind came to a halt in the North Sea.