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Anton van der Merwe's avatar

China is building coal because you can’t replace reliable generating capacity with solar and wind.

The notion that you can has been disproven repeatedly. One day there may be a form of affordable storage which makes this feasible. Meanwhile they have to build dispatchable power. They are building nuclear and coal and gas. Ultimately nuclear will probably replace coal as the stations last much longer.

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Sol's avatar

Would it make sense to build a significant overcapacity of power stations if you were concerned that at some point in the not too distant future you might be involved in a conflict that could result in some power stations being destroyed?

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