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NNadir

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1. The unstated reality of these events is that grids are much larger than...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Apr 24, 2025, 04:44 PM

Apr 2025

...they should be because they are required to connect unreliable systems with vast land footprints to redundant but reliable systems.

All of the wind industrial parks in California, spread over thousands of square miles of destroyed wilderness cannot and have not produced as much electricity on a year as the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant produces every year on a 12 acre footprint.

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The unstated reality of these events is that grids are much larger than... NNadir Apr 2025 #1