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That's about the size of it.

What I don't understand (well, I do because it's not about having a balanced power plan it's about control) is why not use wind turbines, solar, nuclear, and natgas with one another, aka this balanced breakfast power generation plan? Renewable devices have their uses, but not at the scale we need to provide for. ea Coal, while it is the best source of thermal energy we can get in a "easy to use, doesn't explode when handled" transportable form, is never going to be a clean method of power generation. We should have looked to nuclear decades ago.

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We did, then three mile island happened. A direct result of the station operators taking the station out of "automatic", thinking they could manually stay ahead of the reactions. They could not. Added bonus: Closing nuke plants takes away all those good middle class jobs, in addition to removing stable power generation.