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Old 04-18-2019, 04:29 PM   #5644 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Its already cheaper to use solar to cover peak load and wind to cover some peak and some base load.
Problem is that pesky base load. Right now coal and natural gas round out the base load. Hydroelectric too, but hydro only makes up like 6% of the electricity used in the United States, unfortunately.
But that is only concerning electricity. Which is only 20% of the energy we use.
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We have to build out another 50X wind and solar. And storage. And also electrify all of the 100's of $trillions of built out infrastructure, machines, heat and processes. And grow at 3%/ year to pay back the $275 trillion the world has already borrowed from the future. And not run out of resources or money while doing all of this.
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It takes a WWII type austere focused effort to do all of this world wide in 20 years.
 
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