baseline-shift

Lying down is best. Comfy, relaxing, best for brain

600 BC is hardly 'before (sic) prehistoric times'

It is rather ridiculous to fret about the very minor emissions of manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels compared to sticking with fossil fueled energy sources!

We don't see similarly breathless studies of the carbon emissions of all the other manufactured things we need to run our civilization.

Where's the emissions involved in making washing machines? Highways? Primary schools? Oh dear, let's not make those things!

But no, it is only the things that compete with the fossil industry that must be tallied up so NIMBYs can have some excuse to ditch these crucial solutions to our climate problem.

if there were pylons already going to where the solar and wind farms are built then yes, this 'rarely used technique' of adding larger capacity wires to existing pylons would be the obvious answer, but the problem is these uninhabitably hot sunny deserts and windy plains ideal for new solar and wind energy do not have grid connections because people don't live there.

The earliest vaccines injected at tiny amount of the disease, from smallpox on. So she probably expected to feel like shit, and that's why she felt like shit.

However the covid vaccines did not have any covid in them. So there is no way she got a taste of covid shittyness.

Most traditional vaccines consist of either killed or weakened forms of a virus or bacterium. These provoke an immune response that allows the body to fight off the actual pathogen later on.

Instead of delivering a virus, RNA vaccines deliver genetic information that allows the body’s own cells to produce a viral protein which stimulate the immune system to mount a response, without posing any risk of infection.

This is incorrect. It is not for a few minutes!

We are way way past that at this point. The renewable generation meeting the total demand is over most of the day. Because of solar PV, the cheapest generation now, the daytime electricity supply is actually more than we need in California. Solar farms (and also wind farms)get curtailed here due to supplying more than the grid can take at times; this is usually for several hours.

Source; reporter covering solar news through interviews with grid operators, solar developers and policymakers since 2008

People can only comfortably read a maximum of 17 words per line. Best is 12. That text should be in two columns.

We are headed for 20 MW now, so a wind farm with five 20 MW turbines is a typical size for many gas power plants; 100 MW.

In the EU, there's testing facilities that are checking these at this 20 MW size now. Commercially at this point there's up to 17 MW operating in the North Sea.

It really doesn't seem like it could pencil out, as it carries only one blade at a time, that's three trips for each turbine - and most windfarms would have more than one. But I guess they think it does. Perhaps they can also deliver to offshore farms, which already have contracts. I know there is a shortage of the specialized ships to float their huge blades out.

Also, I hope they've done their homework on NIMBY pushback on land which is pretty effective against wind farms even with regular sized turbines.