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It's important to remember how radical a change to electricity generation is. Apart from just new plants, you've got to keep the existing grid going, create new
by cryptopian 1mo ago
It's important to remember how radical a change to electricity generation is. Apart from just new plants, you've got to keep the existing grid going, create new distribution infrastructure, reorganise supply chains and labour forces, and you'll also have old infrastructure aging out. It's not ideal, but a long term plan may involve building new fossil fuel generators in the immediate term
- tialaramex 1mo ago> a long term plan may involve building new fossil fuel generators in the immediate term In all but some very extreme cases this is unaffordable because the fossil fuel generator is expensive to build and yet is increasingly stranded destroying any further value.