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Nope. They love solar and wind because both result in a grid that for the forseeable future requires peaker plants. Usually LNG which they see as their greenwa
by jpgvm 4y ago
Nope.
They love solar and wind because both result in a grid that for the forseeable future requires peaker plants. Usually LNG which they see as their greenwashed future.
They hate hydro for the same reason they hate nukes, they are too damn stable, entirely removing the possible need for fossil fuel based plants in base load generation or grid stability.
Lets build solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. If you can't build hydro though nukes really are the best alternative and the sooner people come around to that idea the sooner fossil fuels die.
- moloch-hai 4y agoHint: peaker plants do not burn coal. Hydro is moot. There is noplace left to build hydro generation (storage is completely different), so there is no reason to mention it, except to note that an existing reservoir is an excellent place to float a solar farm.
- jpgvm 4y agoYeah they don't burn coal, they are hoping to transition to natural gas and we shouldn't stand for that shit. That is literally the whole point of my comment.
- moloch-hai 4y agoNG will be displaced by cheaper synthetic fuel, in time. Demand for NG will fall off relentlessly as it is displaced by renewables and storage, and finally be pinched off by synthetics generated from renewables' surpluses.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoCitation needed* This is just pure speculation based on nothing.
- moloch-hai 4y agoYou are maybe unaware of exponential growth of renewables deployment, worldwide, with no expectation it will slow? Each installation displaces coal, oil, and NG generation in direct proportion. Probably you should read up a bit.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoI obviously meant the nonsense about synthetic natural gas. Who do you think you are fooling with these lazy debate tactics?
- moloch-hai 4y agoI did not, in fact, write a single word about "synthetic natural gas". Let's not be making things up to put into others' mouths.
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- ltbarcly3 4y agoBut you did say ng would be replaced by synthetics. Synthetic what? Again I will ask, but I don't know why at this point, who do you think you are impressing?