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Old 05-30-2023, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by rsmurano View Post
Wind farms are inefficient, solar is inefficient and requires batteries to make it a viable source and batteries have their drawbacks.
We have enough fossil fuels to last us 100’s of years with todays technology and hydro power can be increased many times over if not for the protesters.
Nuclear fusion is also very promising.
All true as another utility industry employee.

If wind and solar and batteries are unstable and not massively scaleable,
why do people think that replacing the current generation sources with unstable sources will solve our needs?

grabbing onto theoretical concepts because of the words green or free doesn't make the execution financially logical or practical or better.