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Re:Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study by aqme28 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:26PM (#20932466)
I'm more skeptical. I worry that energy demand will rise to the level of supply, more akin to road use than to phone access. As an example, you're going to have to deal with crypto miners and grow-ops.
Re:Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study by gwbas1c on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:51PM (#20932869)
Something to keep in mind is the growing trend of electrification in the 2020s. This will be both electric cars, and heat pumps for heating.

> “Our story for gas plants is, if you build it, they won’t run -- they won’t run at their expected capacity factors,” said Mark Dyson, who co-wrote both reports. “And that filters down to pipelines, too.”

I suspect that the demand for electricity will mean that we'll need gas plants much longer than the article believes.

This will be a good thing, because electric cars and heat pumps running off of natural gas generators is much less carbon than gasoline cars and natural gas furnaces.

Re:Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study by adrianmonk on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:59PM (#20933660)
Or to use an example closer to home, more akin to software bloat.