And that still leaves NIMBY and environmental issues, as well as the increased grid costs. As I’ve posted before, connection costs for on-shore wind are about 4x higher than for nuclear and 12x higher than for nat gas. Off-shore wind multiples those numbers by almost three.
Wendy had a thread last year which she titled “U.S. power grid inadequate for exploiting wind and solar power” which is certainly related to energy density.
A different source of power? The power they already have?
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