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Old 12-30-2017, 12:07 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
I think the main point of the piece is just encouragement about the feasibility of cleaner power in the future. I would bet historically the prices for electricity in Germany have always been high. They never had much fossil fuel and they never had enough coal. The us has historically had a lot of fossil fuels and a lot of coal. The future is going to be different.
I think the main point of the piece is that weather, and power generators that produce based on weather, don't pay attention to demand. They produce however much they produce, regardless of what is needed at the moment.

Free energy isn't the result of brilliant planning, rather it's the result of oversupply.

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