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“Solar and wind are unreliable! We need coal and gas forever!”
What You Say
Grid-scale battery storage and regional interconnection solve intermittency — Texas blackouts were caused by gas plant failures, not wind. Levelized cost of solar and wind is now below coal and gas in most markets. Every IPCC pathway to 1.5°C requires rapid renewable deployment; 'reliability' arguments are fossil-fuel delay tactics.
The Stab
The grid failed because gas froze. Not because the sun set.
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