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The Importance of Overbuilding Wind and Solar
The energy return on energy invested is not in the same order of magnitude. Traditional hydrocarbons have captured millions of years of the earth's temperature and pressure to embed all that energy into the coal or natural gas itself. And you don't get that when it comes to wind and solar. So right off the bat, you have to overbuild to get the same amount of useful power coming out the other side.