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You need a gas turbine.

Or a battery.



Or a (pumped-storage) hydroelectric plant, to take the discussion back (almost) full circle.


Or "a single GE Haliade-X wind turbine can output 14MW at peak."


You want some storage for when the wind isn’t blowing.


, for which you don't have to destroy a river habitat.


Nope. Most buffering in the US as deployed is natgas, not poison the water lithium.


Isn't it a choice of "poison the water" or poison the air? Are we under the assumption that natural gas is clean?


I was sardonically calling out that a lot of the energy picture is much more complicated than that.

The battery production process (and PV production process) is quite ecologically intensive, and large portions of the reduction in prices we've seen has been by manufacturing in places that don't exactly have high standards for these things.




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