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Han wrote:

They don't work all the time, but they do work. And natural gas-fired
old-fashioned power plants will be needed for peak loads, because you
just can't stop industry to back up that.

The other studiously ignored problem, even greater than peak loads, is
that many of our base load plants are reaching the end of their lives.
This is an area where solar and wind are particularly useless.

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