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Originally Posted by Big Dave
MechEngVT has it. It is the intermittent nature of wind and solar that doom them. To back them up you have to run a fossil fuel plant in wasteful "spinning reserve" to cover for when the wind or solar units drop the ball.
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Well, doom renewables for us anyway. Those precise Germans already know how to manage it, but I suppose expecting Americans to do similar isn't realistic, right Big Dave?
