Just go look at powerplants by US state on wikipedia and see how much power they put out. You will find solar/wind capacities are a tiny fraction of even one medium sized coal powerplant and solar/wind capacity is optimum capacity, not including cloudy days and days with no wind. Coal plants usually turn out around 1,000MW of capacity and a solar field of decent size is usually about 5MW, and that's capacity, NOT average output. Plus they are made in China with rare Earth minerals mined from China. Wind is a little better but they have to clear cut jungles with Balsa wood because they require so much of it to make the turbines.
Just go look at powerplants by US state on wikipedia and see how much power they put out. You will find solar/wind capacities are a tiny fraction of even one medium sized coal powerplant and solar/wind capacity is optimum capacity, not including cloudy days and days with no wind. Coal plants usually turn out around 1,000MW of capacity and a solar field of decent size is usually about 5MW, and that's capacity, NOT average output. Plus they are made in China with rare Earth minerals mined from China. Wind is a little better but they have to clear cut jungles with Balsa wood because they require so much of it to make the turbines.
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