On 15/10/2020 09:53, Jeff Layman wrote:
Assuming there will be enough natural energy available across the world
at any time to supply /all/ the world's demands (solar, wind, wave,
hydro, geothermal, etc), then if interconnected on a world-wide grid one
country could ....

....exceed the cost of building, and the carbon footprint, of an all
nuclear local fleet by an order of magnitude, as well as reducing energy
security to absolute zero.

The Russians already grappled up one undersea cable with a submarine
and snapped it...just testing...

And covering the entire land surface of the globe in solar panels and
windmills may nor be enough anyway...

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the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

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