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It's faster and cheaper to build out new capacity and then later retire old capacity than it is to do an in-situ replacement. Build the battery-backed solar an
by jude- 6y ago
It's faster and cheaper to build out new capacity and then later retire old capacity than it is to do an in-situ replacement. Build the battery-backed solar and wind farms now, and then watch the coal and gas plants go bankrupt.
- MrMan 6y agoThen bitcoin miners will buy the old coal plants and we are back to square one
- jude- 5y agoNot if you make coal-fired plants illegal to operate. Easy to enforce, since you can see the CO2 emissions and just go seize and demolish the plant if it turns on. Can also seize the coal mines. This will have to happen regardless of whether or not cryptocurrency exists.