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And yet Britain just experienced an entire week without coal-generated
electricity...without mass panic,
it would seem?
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/08/britain-passes-1-week-without-coal-power-for-first-time-since-1882>
But I am not sure if what is happening in Britain is a direct
contradiction to the drift of the Forbes
article - it may be that Britain has had much greater success than
Germany with off-shore wind.
- Bill
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Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk proclaimed that a rich, high-energy
civilization could be powered by cheap solar panels and electric cars.
Journalists reported breathlessly on the cost declines in batteries,
imagining a tipping point at which conventional electricity utilities
would be “disrupted.”
But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of
resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450
times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times
more land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.
full:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/
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