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This may be OT but you might enjoy my strategic analysis of the Biden climate agenda:

https://www.cfact.org/2021/04/24/the-biden-climate-summit-speeding-up-to-hit-the-wall-harder/

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How will we count CO2 and other emissions from the manufacture and installation of all the wind and solar replacements for the shut down fossil fuel plants?

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The number of plants may be too crude to work. Plants range in size from huge coal fired baseload to tiny peakers. Also a lot of plants will just run less as wind and solar pile on. A better measure might be MWh by fuel type which EIA reports monthly.

Note too that the Admin is promoting what is called the Clean Electricity Standard which would require emissions to cut 80% by 2030. This slope is a bit steeper I think.

Of course it is all impossible because there is no feasible way to store the huge amounts of juice needed to cure the intermittency of wind and solar.

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Great article. As you update in future years, it will be interesting to see how the number of FF power plants needed to be shut down monthly grows from 11 to 12, etc. Unless we embrace a substantial increase in redesigned (i.e. lower cost) Nuclear plants(unlikely), this goal will fade away because most Americans will not except higher fuel costs and/or grid instability. Voter registration will be at a record high.

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Interesting thought experiment — that will instantly take this from the abstract to the chillingly personal— plot actual names and States of FF power plants hypothetically going offline, along the downward curve.

Will Generate a LOT of NIMBY challenges and thus engagement in the realities of the pace

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We vacationed at Tikal in Guatemala in 1992

At the hotel there the electricity was on and off all day and night

The hotel told us checking in to be sure and watch tv, read and shower while the power was on because it would be dark and stultifying hot when the power failed and the AC went off

Thats the future the democrats are sending us towards

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Whoopee! I will get to freeze in the dark.

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