02-02-2021, 03:33 PM
(02-01-2021, 06:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: As usual, your assumptions are mistaken.
Even if the grid could take up the slack, the additional electric generation required would just result in building of more fossil fuel plants, some using much more environmentally unfriendly fuels such as oil and coal - not to mention that electric heat is much less efficient than fossil fuel heat.
No utility is building coal-fired plants, and most are avoiding gas. Nuclear should be an option, but it's been demagogued into oblivion. So that leaves the intermittent sources: wind and solar. For that to be adequate, the grid needs a major upgrade. It needs one anyway, so two birds, one stone.
When it arrives, fusion will solve the entire problem (assuming it isn't astronomically expensive, of course). ITER is still advancing on schedule, so there's hope.
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