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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Addressing climate change
« Reply #105 on: May 27, 2019, 09:57:26 pm »
It is not that simple. If the market was left to sort it out then solar and wind would rarely be used where there is a grid because because they are not baseload or disapatchable which makes them implicitly less useful than other power sources. Governments can and have attempted to rig the market by dumping costs on non-renewables or the grid rather than subsidizing renewable power directly (e.g. with renewable mandates). In such a rigged market it could be profitable to run a solar/wind plant but it is important to remember that the market was rigged. Simply taxing fossil fuels more is rarely enough to make up for the costs incurred dealing with the unreliable nature of solar/wind.

Fair enough.  I guess we can just watch what those countries that don't care at all about climate change do with their power grid.
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