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13. Distributed power is distributed pollution.
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:26 AM
Mar 2023

The first example of distributed power is the automobile, which has been an environmental disaster of the first order precisely because it has proved impossible to reconcentrate all the related products.

People who keep claiming that solar energy is good for addressing demand for air conditioning have obviously never looked at a grid's demand curve which tends to peak in the early evening hours.

It is very easy to get stats on power demand; I frequently check the power demand stats at CAISO, in that gas dependent, "renewable energy will save us" state of California. I check it frequently, and in general, it confirms just how useless and unreliable all of that so called "renewable energy" can be, and the extent to which it depends on burning dangerous fossil fuels and dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere with no intention of cleaning it up.

Feed in tariffs are just another way to subsidize the wealthy at the expensive of the poor.

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