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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
In the US electricity means thermal plants will be involved.
Only about 30% of the power on the power grid can come from wind and solar.
Everything else has to be base load which is hydro electric or a thermal plant, coal, gas, nuclear.
Or a peaker plant which has to be gas fired or hydro.
In the US we can't build any more hydro electric plants and use able geothermal sources are mostly all tapped already.
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The use of this word 'can' implies some physical limitation on the part of renewable energy to ever exceed some arbitrary 30% boundary, which is 'scientifically' absurd.
'Loads' are agnostic. It doesn't matter the source.
Btus are Btus.
KWs are kWs.
It matters not where they originate.
Peaking plants are already being superannuated by grid-scale battery technology.
If the American Coal Producers Association, API, and American Gas Institute can come up with 100% carbon sequestration, halt methane leaks at the source, plus remove 150-years worth of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then they can 'dig baby dig', and 'drill baby drill' until the cows come home. Otherwise, it's got to go, and as quickly as possible.