On 5/27/2012 8:59 AM, Home Guy wrote:
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I've never bought into the idea that there wasn't (or wouldn't be)
enough electricity supply to meet demand. At least not in eastern part
of north-america.
....

Well, if you force enough large-scale generation (coal-fired baseload
plants) offline at one time owing to onerous regulation it's quite
possible there won't be sufficient time to have alternative generation
online to provide the necessary margins for peak loading.

So much of the recent additions to the grid is non-reliable sourced
(wind/solar) so there's a pretty large risk.

IMO the use of natural gas, while currently plentiful, for
central-station generation is an egregious error in judgment for the
longer term.

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