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Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
DOE report written by climate contrarians shares misleading information, misrepresents scientific articles, cherry-picks results to fit a narrative and excludes well-established evidence.
Data centers are largely powered by fossil fuels today, but that may start to change.
Power grids don’t just move electricity around – they are complex works of engineering
The Ivanpah solar plant uses solar concentration power, very different from the technology used in most solar farms today.
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Diesel generators are powering wind turbines.
We still do not have official information on what caused the blackout, but we can say that blaming solar or wind is likely overly simplistic and misleading.
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Whether all that additional carbon dioxide is a function of human activity, that’s still debatable.
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Solar panels can heat up their surroundings and have unknown consequences on the surrounding environment.
Adding more solar and wind can increase the price that homes pay for electricity. But energy type is only one piece of the puzzle, and simply because a grid has more solar or wind does not mean it is more expensive.