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NNadir

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1. Nevertheless the issue with capacity factors is a serious one.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 10:32 AM

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The build out of redundant systems, particularly those divorced from demand, as all so called "renewable energy" systems except hydroelectricity, is unsustainable and thus of dubious environmental value.

We have fans of gas peaker plants here at DU, but I'm not among them. Their existence is a side product of pretending that so called "renewable energy" is "green."

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