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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Once you try to replace coal, natural gas, nuclear plants with "renewable" then they get more expensive.
Renewable can make electricity cheaper, but you can only use a few percent of solar and less than 20% of wind to supplement reliable power.
Any more than that an you are chasing a moving target and fossil fuel plants have to idle but stay ready to meet demand when all that renewable power suddenly can't meet deamand.
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The average Joe is often fooled into believing a "miraculous" one-size-fits-all approach will be the solution, at least once it's proven to fail when it's too late...