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hunter

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14. Texas is a fracking natural gas hell hole.

Reply to Finishline42 (Reply #13)

Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:57 PM

Jan 2020

That Texas is not adverse to wind energy means something.

Rather like Denmark.

Something not good.

Antinuclear activists tend to become feckless shills of the natural gas industry.

Texas is okay with that.

France closed its last coal mine in 2004.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3651881.stm

The transition for Germany is going to be more difficult.

https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm

Regional variations in solar and wind energy inputs can't be completely smoothed over by batteries or ultra-high-voltage power lines. That's just the way nature rolls.

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Germany Rejected Nuclear Power--and Deadly Emissions Spiked [View all] NickB79 Jan 2020 OP

I remember the Energy Forum's resident curmudgeon arguing this Vogon_Glory Jan 2020 #1

Well said. (eom) StevieM Jan 2020 #2

I had my revelation on the blue waters of the Caribbean Vogon_Glory Jan 2020 #3

The former resident curmudgeon is not gone. StevieM Jan 2020 #4

no one could have predicted this pscot Jan 2020 #5

Actually some people did Vogon_Glory Jan 2020 #6

Who, with a rudimentary understanding of electricity generation, would have not predicted this? progree Jan 2020 #7

Japan too progree Jan 2020 #8

I rarely post here anymore in "renewables will save us" land, but... NNadir Jan 2020 #9

England on the other hand Finishline42 Jan 2020 #10

Coal won't be the death of us, natural gas will... hunter Jan 2020 #12

No argument with your stance on nat gas Finishline42 Jan 2020 #13

Texas is a fracking natural gas hell hole. hunter Jan 2020 #14

And there's this re: Germany and coal Finishline42 Jan 2020 #11