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goobster  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Coal is dead, because nobody wants to build coal-fired power plants.

Thanks for engaging with me on this.

I really think that our power grid needs to be way more like plumbing: a base level of water is always available, and then if Nevada needs to water their lawn tonight, there is additional capacity in store to draw on.

A radical rethinking of where we get power, how we store it, and how we make it available to the places that need it, especially when that need spikes...

It's a Big Problem, but one I can't imagine we aren't going to have to solve in the next 20 years.