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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1061364)	3/20/2018 10:27:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575498

Mindmeld, Sure, but compare apples to apples. How much does all that oil equipment cost for the initial purchase and its ongoing maintenance? The comparison is never apples to apples. The point is that a single fossil fuel plant takes up maybe a few acres of land. Maintenance is centralized. Solar and wind farms have to be spread out over several square miles in order to match the power output of a fossil fuel plant. Though the maintenance on each wind turbine or solar panel is minuscule, together it all adds up. And you don't even get consistent power output. Too little or too much, the resulting fluctuations are pretty hard to deal with. You have to make up for it with extra capacity on standby, which means you can't retire those old fossil fuel plants and save on those costs. All of these complications cut into the theoretical savings. These academic papers that are published always ignore this stuff, because there is a huge gap between theory and practice. By the way, that's the engineer in me talking. No good idea goes unpunished. Tenchusatsu