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Yu Hsing Chen's avatar

"It is widely known that adding intermittent electricity-generating sources to an electricity grid can substantially destabilize it."

Is it? It's known to those of us that can think logically and at least make some honest attempt to try to understand how things work, but I would suspect if you put this question out as an open poll you'd be surprised how few people are actually aware of that, and that they basically voted for it.

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Tahoe Joe's avatar

The worst part about this is the government stepped in, preventing the public from learning the folly of current policy. I'm not a fan of the Chinese government, but they seem to be on a path of letting Evergrande hit the windshield, which will be a lesson to every highly leveraged company in China. Until we have *serious* pain (like the Texas energy incident), the general public will not learn (and even then, some will not learn). Politicians need the support of the people to turn the corner on the warming debate and restart investment in nuclear, which seems to be the only viable way forward.

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