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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:58:11 +0000
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On 11/01/2025 14:21, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> Well, USA, a lot of power companies have built HUGE
>    solar farms. The idea isn't to replace the hardware
>    power plants but to add daytime grid capacity when
>    the load tends to be highest. No 'storage' needed.
>    This way they don't need to build new plants. Solar
>    is E-Z add-on too.

The demand is NOT highest during the day, It is highest at the  end of 
the day when temperatures peak and the sun has gone down

The massive drop off in solar has to be replaced by something else, but 
never to the cost of those making money out of solar. Only the consumer 
pays more instead.


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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over 
the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that 
authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frédéric Bastiat