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To: Omnivore-Dan

All correct.

The most fundamental issue of all of them is: without a huge influx of transmission infrastructure, energy storage arrays, backup fossil fuel generators ready to jump into production at a second’s notice, and all the rest of that expensive pap, solar and wind power are incompatible with the current iteration of the energy grid that expands and contracts on a second by second basis, a grid that must by nature operate in a level fashion by having energy providing sources shut down to stop the flow into a grid that is already too full of unused energy, or have energy dumped into the grid if the demand is too high.

Solar and wind, without gargantuan influxes of money and infrastructure (apart from the already expensive wind turbines and solar panel farms) simply cannot live as a vital part of the currently constructed grid. They are fun “nice to have” things, like making hay when the sun is shining, but as a vital adjunct, they are useless.


20 posted on 12/15/2025 6:15:22 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel

There are several so-called “solar farms” in our area here in rural NW Jersey. Yes, there are still some rural areas in N.J. The “farms” are not farms. It is a gross misnomer. They do not produce any veggies, fruit, poultry, or livestock. Quite the contrary, they take up hundreds of acres of farmland that could be put to much better use. They have done nothing to reduce our electric bills. Nothing.


23 posted on 12/15/2025 6:35:50 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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