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Power sector isn't ready, nor anyone else. Developing power to heavy usage areas from available generation areas is like building new railroads. Success will ar
by techbio 8y ago
Power sector isn't ready, nor anyone else. Developing power to heavy usage areas from available generation areas is like building new railroads. Success will arise from new, large, government-granted monopoly operations and be slow and pricey without political support at local levels and paying to or seizing from the many literal NIMBY people affected.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609766/how-to-get-wyoming-wind-to-california-and-cut-80-of-us-carbon-emissions/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609766/how-to-get-wyoming...
Alternatively, of course, solar roof tiles get mandated for new construction and these problems go away.
- test6554 8y agoI'm not really in favor of an energy production mandate for new homes, but even if I was, I wouldn't want to be locked into solar, or even solar roof tiles specifically by law or statute.
- woodandsteel 8y agoAre you implying there are or might be in the future other sources of home energy production than solar? Oh, and if there are, why not just mandate that there has to be some form, rather than mandating only solar?
- techbio 8y agoAn economic mandate could be triggered by an imperative to balance climate-control costs with passive home production systems.