• folaht@lemmy.ml
    31·
    2 months ago

    So glad to see this.
    Seeing all those nuclear fanboy comments whenever solar was mentioned from 2010 to 2025 was tiring.

    Onto the natgas fanboys.
    I’m looking at you Alex Christoforou.

      • folaht@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 months ago

        Include battery-exhausted to windless and I agree,
        but natgas fanboys will still claim that solar power “doesn’t work” and “can’t ever replace natgas”.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Why? Why do people constantly claim that the only way to generate baseline power is by releasing fossil fuels and burning things?

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 months ago

          No. Not baseline. Standby capacity for when it’s cloudy, still, dry and all battery capacity has been used up.

          Maybe we only need natural gas for, say, 10 hours per year, but in those hours we really need it

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Maybe there is a better electricity mix that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels “just in case.”

            • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              As battery capacity increases those edge cases get fewer and fewer. But we will always need some fossil fuel equivalent.

              The methane can come sustainably from landfill. It doesn’t need to be from dinosaurs.