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NNadir

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1. No rational person builds a plant to accommodate a few hours every few weeks of otherwise useless power.

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 04:51 AM

Dec 2024

The solar fantasy is grotesque, a complete failure and has left the planet in flames.

The idea that one build a huge expensive plant so to satisfy bourgeois fantasies about hydrogen, this as a tool to greenwash fossil fuels, since almost all of the hydrogen on this planet is made from fossil fuels, this on a planet where billions of people lack access to improved sanitation shows just how clueless we are on this planet.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Posting pictures of vast landscapes industrialized for the solar fantasy does not change the fact that hydrogen is overwhelming made by the use of fossil fuels. It's simply dishonest advertising since most people foolishly believe solar energy is significant and "green," neither of which are true.

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California can't use all its solar power. That's a huge problem. CA's solar plants don't even operate at full capacity [View all] Caribbeans Dec 2024 OP

No rational person builds a plant to accommodate a few hours every few weeks of otherwise useless power. NNadir Dec 2024 #1

I agree, Hydrogen should only be made using some of this excess green energy rather than fossil fuels... Think. Again. Dec 2024 #4

Hydrogen is only Figarosmom Dec 2024 #6

Or we could store the excess clean energy using Hydrogen made from other excess clean energy! Think. Again. Dec 2024 #7

Around here, there is a lot of ignorant people who regard energy storage as primary energy. In any case... NNadir Dec 2024 #11

"Millions of dollars of electricity go to waste because the infrastructure isn't in place to store or move all the solar Think. Again. Dec 2024 #2

is there funding coming from the infrastructure bill? SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2024 #8

Oh yes, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment Act both dedicate funds to energy distribution... Think. Again. Dec 2024 #9

It proves it's not pie in the sky thinking Figarosmom Dec 2024 #3

Great idea! Think. Again. Dec 2024 #5

That won't work. druidity33 Dec 2024 #10

It proves no such thing. It's garbage thinking. NNadir Dec 2024 #12

Other forms of energy storage are possible for CA BubbaJoe Dec 2024 #13

How giant 'batteries' in the Earth could slash your electricity bills. usonian Dec 2024 #14

We don't generate very much "clean" energy. NNadir Dec 2024 #15

should be rooftop solar on houses and businesses not solar farms for corporate welfare nt msongs Dec 2024 #16

Yup. There's nothing better on this planet than giving tax breaks to the rich; houses would be the thing to do it. NNadir Dec 2024 #17