Wind and solar is at its best if it's an abstraction, not a reality in people's lives. People who love to be near the wind turbines and solar panels are really illicit motions like that because a single hedge can just cover it up. The difference is you only need a few nuclear plants, only a few in the whole nation. But for wind and solar, each new wind and solar farm is enormous compared to its power outage and it's not essential for the grid. So 70 billion of investment isn't supposed to be for the grid to rely on - but also means any new wind or solar plant cannot be something that you rely on as well.

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