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...is the second most reliable form of energy, after nuclear. The solar scam cannot operate without fossil fuel back up.
There are of course people around who like to carry on about batteries, and worse, hydrogen, to address the grotesque lack of reliability of so called "renewable energy" but any form of redundancy raises not only cost but environmental impact as well.
It is an atrocious falsehood to claim that so called "renewable energy" is an alternative to coal or any fossil fuel. The common representation to the contrary is only a recent add on for advocates of solar and wind. The main interest of these advocates has been to attack the only more reliable form of primary energy than coal, nuclear energy. If solar energy, at a cost of trillions of dollars, is so great, why are people still building and operating coal plants?
In China, the world's largest producer of solar junk, over 90 coal plants are in various stages of construction. One may note that China also has 39 nuclear plants under construction and operates 61 existing nuclear plants. While the rate at which they are building nuclear plants is slower than the rate of building coal plants there, the fact is that every nuclear plant in China or anywhere else is a coal plant not built.
This is not true of either solar or wind. The antinuke "renewable energy will save us," Germans are hedging their claims that they can phase out coal by 2038. Unless they reverse their antinuke stupidity they won't without access to methane. It's clear from recent experience that there is no assurance they can get methane, the second worst greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.
This recent marketing that so called "renewable energy" has anything to do with addressing fossil fuel use is nonsense. So called "renewable energy" depends on access to fossil fuels. Solar and wind have never kept pace with the growth in the use of fossil fuels, never mind had any effect on representing a pathway to eliminating their use.
If one shuts a coal plant for a few hours because the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, one has to burn coal for a period in which the plant will produce no electricity to bring up steam.
The only nation that was coal dependent and successfully phased coal out is France. They did so half a century ago, but the rest of humanity, still reliant on coal to this day, failed to learn from this unambiguous and clear result.
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