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Re:Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 giga... by fulafel on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:44AM (#15825015)
I guess that accounting is natural for marketing numbers.

I don't generally think it's a problem, it's just a feature of those generation methods and just means we need overprovisioning. Whereas fossil fuels have unsurmountable problems and cause untold human suffering, famines and damage to the environment.

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Re:Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 giga... by allenz on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:52PM (#15828468)
I think that Google has made a fantastic step forward. However, solar and wind require some form of energy storage, such as pumped hydro or batteries (which Google hasn't addressed). Overprovisioning by itself isn't sufficient.
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