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Solar Energy is unreliable
Solar panels do not produce electricity when it is dark or in bad weather. This makes solar unreliable and solar plants require 100% back up all the time by fossil fuels. Battery technology doesn't exist to store even 1 day of energy in the USA.
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Solar and wind require that natural gas plants, hydro-electric dams, batteries or some other form of reliable power be ready at a moment’s notice to start churning out electricity when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining. Read full article.
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For the kinds of energy I call “unreliables”--solar and wind, whose fuel sources are intermittent, unpredictable, and most of the time unavailable, the term “capacity” is inherently misleading.
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Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice - but they are far too expensive to play a major role
Continue to explore the next section in 5 things you need to know about solar
5. Solar Energy is NOT clean or free from CO2 emissions - Explore
1. Industrial-scale solar power plants on rural land negatively impact our ecosystem and contribute to climate change - Explore
2. Industrial-scale solar development is driven by Big Tech demand and subsidized federal tax credits - Explore
3. Solar energy produces large amounts of toxic waste - Explore
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