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Haha I'm not trying to bash wind or solar (if I went MechE, I'd probably work with them), but I feel like you run into similar problems with them as we already do with coal. In order to prepare for excessively high peak loads, we have to build extra coal plants that run, for the most part, without a purpose. Only when energy demands reach a certain point do they actually come into play, but theyve been running continuously just in case. Nuclear can adjust (to my knowledge) the rate of the controlled fission reaction and subsequently the output power. Solar and wind would run into the same sort of issue since their output is dependent on the environment not our energy demands. And then the problem of what happens when the wind isn't blowing or at night when the sun isn't shining. Are these legitimate concerns? (I may very well just be ignorant haha)
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