Ok, some giant utility up north, Minnesota or thereabouts decides to take a coal fired plant offline and replace it with a solar farm.
How do they produce electricity at night?
How do the produce electricity when all the solar panels are buried under six feet of snow?
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@tanstaafl6817
They don't.
They have one of their engineers sit down and run the numbers for how much they are producing vs how much they are short.
Then they try to make up the shortfall by telling you to use less heat and not charge your electric car at night.
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@tanstaafl6817
You must live in my neck of the woods, I heard our power company has just done that, now we are being told to conserve power.
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@tanstaafl6817
It's just the sacrifice they are willing for you to make to keep the earth from burning up.
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@tanstaafl6817
Ask Alberta. The former premier Rachel Notley, or as we call her Chief Notaclue, did just that! No they are buying power from other producers
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@tanstaafl6817
Solar is great within its envelope, but legions of hippies have grossly oversold what it can do.
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@tanstaafl6817
Gets worse. Solar farms often use molten salt to store thermal energy, later used to heat water for STEAM TURBINES to generate electricity! Further, solar plants need A LOT OF fossil fuels to start up every morning & to lubricate & FABRICATE almost everything in the system.
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@RussJensen5
Networks of environmentally destructive transmission lines snaking their way through National Parks, designated Wilderness Areas, and any place they damn well choose to slither through. These transmission lines will allegedly bring power from the destroyed southern deserts.
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@tanstaafl6817
What makes you think anyone cared? That's not the point.
The point of these things is to make themselves feel superior, powerful, in control, and a dozen other things that are all related. It's all about their feelings. Reality is not involved.
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