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Good grief, so much of this thread is pie in the sky, wishes were fishes. Powering a city is something that has to be done today, we can't wait until tomorrow to power our cities, in cities people die if there is insufficient power.
I find it interesting that amongst all the talk of lossless transmission of Gigawatts of power yet there was zero discussion on the fact that the cheapest way we have to store electrical power are lead-acid batteries, tech from the 1800's
I could quite as easily talk the virtues of Fusion, but, the technology does not exist. One day Fusion Power may become commonplace but not today. We use power today, we do not power our devices today using tomorrows power. The Power Pixies may believe they can rewrite the laws of thermodynamics & relativity, however, it won't make power flow through the wall socket. It's pointless talking about how good it would be to use lossless or near lossless power transmission if you cant do it!
To merely make the utterance Solar, renewable does not make you a harbinger of the future, it does not position anyone the leading edge of tech, its mere words. Words do not make an energy efficient light bulb glow, electrons flowing down a wire illuminate an energy efficient light bulb.
The overwhelming majority of renewables pundits convey the impression that talking about something aka renewables is somehow virtuous and leading edge, its just talk. We have cities to power, less advantaged to assist, educations to fund etc: washing this all down the drain so that latte-sipping neophytes can feel good about the Middle-Class welfare of Solar Subsidies is enough to make a reasonable person gag.
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