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If coal and gas plants are off 50% it is because they are being controlled off by demand. Not because they were incapable of supplying the output as is the case for intermittents like solar and wind.
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Keep in mind that the electrical consumption of your house is just a tiny fraction of the energy that you are consuming as a person on Earth. Just because you can unplug your house does not prove that solar can replace 17TW of world energy.
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