re: Does the left really believe we can power the entire country on solar and wind?

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What I was talking about was the “crash” program that would be required to mine the copper and aluminum to build the umpteen thousand wind turbines and gazillion acres of solar panels required to eleminate fossil fuel usage within AOC’s 10 year deadline .

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Its always amusing when people insis thst solars going to magically become cheaper. Balance of a system ( Non-P.V) costs aren’t going down. Switchgear, copper, aluminum, steel, land, labor, plastic (hee-hee) are all mature industries that aren’t going to see massive productivity gains.