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Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3 by himinlomax on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:34AM (#31107474)
> Are blizzards in the USA ever that big?

At times of the year when there are blizzards, I seriously doubt the rest of solar installations in the US are going to be running anywhere near capacity.

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Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3 by ben_w on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:49AM (#31107854)
First: So? PV is so cheap overcapacity isn’t unreasonable.

Second: My first visit to the USA, I saw people surfing in Asilomar on Christmas Day/Boxing Day and it remained warm and sunny throughout my stay in California, yet a few days into that trip New York was suffering a blizzard that Trump was trying to argue disproved global warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2014_North_American_cold...

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Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3 by himinlomax on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:11AM (#31108412)
> First: So? PV is so cheap overcapacity isn’t unreasonable.

You're assuming they have an infinite lifespan. They don't.

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Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3 by ben_w on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:01PM (#31112996)
No I’m not. If I thought they had infinite lifespan I would be claiming solar was effectively free rather than, as I am actually claiming, just cheap.
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