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Originally posted by benbradley ↑

The selective tunnel vision of these greenies is astounding...

You can probably hook up your bicycle to a generator and generate a few watts of electricity at a cheap rate, but then look at the complications and expense of doing that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year reliably with a high standard of quality regulation regardless of the weather snow, rain or clouds, day or night...

A slightly different set of financial caculations then come into play...

So you make your community dependent on individual solar power generation and scale back the grid power supply to absolute minimal requirements...

Then comes the 100 year snow storm/rain storm to your area and there is no solar power for a week or more, maybe even longer if there was severe winds with the storm...

Your want medical treatment at the hospital, but they are on emergency backup generators since their rooftop solar stopped working and the grid supply is inadequate to supply them now...

Your house temperature drops dramatically but your solar PV cells are not producing any power anymore and grid is inadequate to provide power to you...

The solar scenario may work in a small range of ideal weather conditions in some locations, but will very likely fail you when you desperately need the power it generates to keep you alive when adverse and extreme weather hits for a few days or weeks...

(hint for greenies:
adverse and extreme weather is not that unusual in the real world)

Place your bets on living and dying and spin the wheel...

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C'mon Han, stop that practical reality talk. This forum is the pseudo religious forum.
As the google engineers pointed out just recently, despite what they desired, there was no way renewables would cut the mustard.
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