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I'd prefer they use cheap and available renewables rather than accelerating climate change. But to each their own I guess. (And to head it off at the pass: if
by unknownfuture 4mo ago
I'd prefer they use cheap and available renewables rather than accelerating climate change. But to each their own I guess.
(And to head it off at the pass: if that can't be done then this should be done at all)
- Grombobulous 4mo agoExactly, especially the case when solar+battery are so similar in cost to gas turbine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
- diordiderot 4mo agoLand permitting is tough maybe why they use tents
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- daedrdev 4mo agoThere is currently 2x us electricity production in solar and batteries stuck in permit hell due to the US requiring they pay for grid upgrades before connection in a first in first out line that has grown in length and costs. We could have cheap and available renewables, but we instead destroy them in bureaucratic hell that nobody cares about.
- MithrilTuxedo 4mo agoAre they connecting gas generators to the grid?
- fc417fc802 4mo ago> due to the US requiring they pay for grid upgrades before connection Is that not perfectly reasonable? Someone doing half the job and dumping the rest on everyone else seems like exactly the sort of thing a regulator exists to prevent. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the issue is that solar would be located somewhere remote, the backhaul to get that electricity where it needs to be requires significant upgrades, and that takes time. Which is unfortunate and indicates historic mismanagement of said infrastructure but nonetheless the present day policy of "fix the problem first" seems perfectly reasonable.
- Schiendelman 4mo agoThe problem is, we didn't require any of the fossil fuel companies to do this.