The idea that unreliable wind and solar can save the planet is one of the greatest lies, ever told.
In touting their purported environmental credentials, the crony capitalists, rent-seekers and fawning advocates never take into account any of the associated costs.
It’s all sunshine and suitably stiff breezes, as far as the wind and sun cult is concerned.
At the heart of economics is the need to account for all costs and weigh them against any purported benefits.
Then, and only then, can a net benefit of any chosen course of action be determined.
With the unreliables there are the obvious costs: the need for every single MW of wind or solar capacity to be backed up every single minute of the day by a MW of dispatchable power generation capacity (ordinarily coal, gas or nuclear); the need to build capacity and transmission network to bring wind and solar power…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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