re: No Blackouts in Texas? Thank Solar.

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The more diverse sources of electricity feeding the grid, the less like the grid is to fail. The issue is government interference with the natural adoption of these technologies by subsidizing them.

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Bingo.

The cleanest, most efficient is still nuclear, but even they'll tell you that solar and wind make sense when and where they make sense.

What a lot of solar advocates don't discuss is that cells are toxic once they're no longer usable and it's difficult to recycle components from them: Wired