re: 100m living in Midwest, West Coast and Southwest face summer power outages

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Moreover, traditional power plants are shutting down faster than renewable energy sources can fill, creating a power gap that elevates risks in times of need, such as during scorching summers.

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This is the problem.

I’ll never forget that professor from aTm saying that it wasn’t wind and solar’s fault that Texas lost power because you need to build into your system the redundancy/excess capacity to handle when wind and solar don’t produce. He actually thought places would just have 50% capacity sitting idle.

Why are we shutting power plants down BEFORE we have the capacity of green energy online? Oh that’s right, thank you activist environmentalist and politicians. Great job