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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (79081)10/3/2017 11:39:55 AM
From: TimF2 Recommendations   of 86355
 
There is only one problem with this green perfection.
When the city wakes to another cloudy windless day, where will its electricity come from?

Most towns or companies or installations that claim to be "100% renewable" or "100% solar and wind" don't have to worry about that. They get their electricity from utilities that largely use fossil fuels, but also have some amount of solar and wind production. They pay a slight bit extra and the utility says that the "renewable sources" are feeding the electricity to those consumers, while the "non-renewable" sources are feeding their energy to other people. Of course that claimed allocation means nothing in real physical terms. They don't have dedicated circuits from renewable sources to those who make this claim, it all gets dumped on the same grid. But I guess it allows the greens to feel better about themselves.
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