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Folks, as you know the planet is getting warmer. Eventually we will need to shift to alternative means of providing backup electricity, means that don't have a
by not2b 5y ago
Folks, as you know the planet is getting warmer. Eventually we will need to shift to alternative means of providing backup electricity, means that don't have a huge negative externality for everyone else. Libertarian policies aren't going to make that happen.
- refurb 5y agoApparently generators are a huge negative externality? Compared to what? Gasoline cars? Air travel?
- kragen 5y agoUnlike leaf blowers, backup electricity doesn't have a huge negative externality for everyone else unless the power grid collapses (like, if you only have a few hours of grid power per day, or none), just because the total consumption is so low. But Chinese "libertarian" policies have removed even that externality in many cases by dropping the price of solar panels to well below the price of fossil-fuel energy, which means that more and more energy (backup and otherwise) will be generated from sunlight instead of fossil fuels.