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Old 07-15-2018, 02:49 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
At any rate, adopting renewables into the grid is relatively easy and affordable when they amount to only 20% or less of total power. Once you start getting above that amount, it gets significantly more difficult and expensive to stabilize a grid that is increasingly relying on intermittent and variable renewable energy.
That's a good point, and might also justify me believing the ICE will remain relevant in a foreseeable future, as long as it can work with different options of alternate fuels integrated instead of singling out just a few.
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