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Friday, May 16, 2025

The Achilles Heel of Wind and Solar - By Guy K. Mitchell, Jr.

 Sir Isaac Newton published his magnus opus, titled Principia Mathematica, in 1687.  In Principia, Newton introduced his three laws of motion — the law of inertia, the law of acceleration, the law of action-reaction — and the law of universal gravitation.  It is arguably the greatest scientific work ever published.

Principia set the stage for the “Age of Enlightenment” and paved the way for the Scientific Revolution.  However, it seems that almost 350 years later, the operators of electric power generation systems utilizing wind turbines and solar voltaic cells in Spain and Portugal neglected to consider the law of inertia in the design of their power grids.


Full text:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/the_achilles_heel_of_wind_and_solar.html