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[Ms. Toad]

262. A little high school math should prompt you to question your sources.

Something which provides 50% of daytime need - even generously assuming nighttime need was equal to daytime need (which it isn't), and that 12 hours = daytime and 12 hours = nighttime (which it doesn't) solar power would then would produce 25% of all needed electricity.

Yet you say that it is 3-10% of renewable energy over 24 hours. Renewable energy is not 100% of all energy consumed. But even generously assuming that it is (and that night time need is equal to daytime need), and that the daytime period is equal to the night time period, that would make it 20% maximum of all energy consumed.

But - generally daytime need is far higher than nighttime need (the basis for differential rates which charge a premium for electrical use during the day, and for daylight savings time), and renewable is a small fraction of all energy consumed at this point. Those two facts alone should be a big elbow in the side to check further.