I do not like your insinuation and insult. I got my BSE at UCLA in 1968 and my MSME at University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in 1971.
I told you that hydro, coal, gas and nuclear power have less momentum than batteries to provide power to the grid. I told you that wind and solar are the cheapest, cleanest, fastest way to build power generation. That is why the US and the rest of the world are going to wind, solar and batteries/energy storage.
Your statement that batteries, wind and solar are not viable for large scale power generation. That is wrong because their are already hundreds of utility scale wind farms and hundreds of utility scale solar farms in the US generating lots of cheap, safe electricity.
In August 2024, utility-scale generation of solar electricity averaged 63.1 gigawatthours between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. each day in the Lower 48 states, 36% more than for the same hours in August 2023. Additions of solar generating capacity outpaced other resources in the U.S. electric power sector in 2023, and we expect this trend to continue through the end of 2024.
In August 2024, a total of 107.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar electricity generating capacity was operating in the Lower 48 states compared with 81.9 GW in August 2023, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory.
Between August and December this year, we expect that U.S. utility-scale developers will add 24 GW of solar electricity generating capacity. In the final five months of 2024, we expect new U.S. solar electricity generating capacity will make up 63%, or nearly two-thirds, of all new electricity generating capacity to come online in the United States.
Three states accounted for almost one-half of the utility-scale solar fleet in the United States during August 2024: California (21.0 GW), Texas (18.8 GW), and Florida (9.7 GW).
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63324
In 2023, utility- and small-scale solar installations produced an estimated 238,121 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity combined, a 16 percent increase over 2022. Meanwhile, utility-scale wind installations produced 425,235 GWh of electricity — a 2% drop compared to 2022 due to lower wind speeds, mostly in the Midwest.
Together, solar and wind generated enough electricity last year to power the equivalent of more than 61 million average American homes.