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Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002) by mlindner on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:35PM (#29894677)
Texas of all places are building tremendous numbers of wind turbines primarily driven by market forces.
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Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002) by Symmetry on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @02:20PM (#29896384)
Having their own grid has some serious downsides as they found out last February but the upside is that they get to run things so that their installed base of renewable power is larger than the backlog of projects waiting for approval which is the case most of the country is in.
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Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002) by mlindner on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:39PM (#29911068)
Moving quickly to renewable energy with only a few downsides sounds like a great tradeoff. Especially if they're downsides that consumers can work around.
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