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oh oh !

https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/us-wind-solar-outproduced-coal-and-nuclear-in-q1-2025-eia/

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Low Information Voter 7mo ago 💬 2

One third intermittent supply seems to be about the limit of what modern grid power engineering can cover for.

You guys aren't Spain yet, but you're getting there!

Would be interesting to see those figures in USD @ wholesale instead of MW/h. When renewables prices start to go negative you know deindustrialisation is close at hand.

Would you invest in an aluminium smelter on a renewables-dominated grid? A foundry? A shipyard? A flour mill?

(Surprisingly, our PM has swung hard into natgas lately. Many of his MPs will be sleeping on their couches. I'd prefer nuclear, but whatever keeps the lights on...8

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Dissident Sound 7mo ago

energy is important, factories are important, but none of it is as important as human capital

i am not worried about the grid or factories closing - i am worried about schools banning math because it is racist

when i looked at Japan as a kid i thought - how can they cope with having no natural resources ? but what ultimately did them in was the demographic decline.

if the west goes under it will be because we stopped teaching math and imported billions of subhumans, not because of the grid or the factories.

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Low Information Voter 7mo ago

These are all interconnected.

A "grid" of stupidity, if you will.

Failure of students (especially girls) to learn mathematics four decades ago is why Premier Jacinta Allen is running my state into the ground but thinks the problems she exacerbates are Patriarchy.