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Environment & Energy

hunter

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1. Natural gas is often the primary power source when the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 01:23 PM

Oct 2020

Without natural gas wind and solar power are useless in a high energy industrial consumer economy.

Solar power reduces the rate of natural gas consumption but it will not eliminate it.

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Natural Gas Facing Some Of The Same Headwinds Coal Faced Ten Years Ago [View all] hatrack Oct 2020 OP

Natural gas is often the primary power source when the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining. hunter Oct 2020 #1

No doubt Finishline42 Oct 2020 #2