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The Skeptics Guide #911 - Dec 24 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How to Share Energy Across a Long Distance?

In the United States, there's four grids. The Eastern grid includes Quebec and... Not Quebec. So we could literally share energy across it. We need to invest billions of dollars in our grid so that we can share over large areas. And then we need to build lots of closed-loop pumped hydro to store all of that wind power that we're in. This is a major new approach, right? Which has tremendous potential. I think will get us a lot farther along this path. But absolutely, there are places that where it's going to be less useful than you think. It takes five to ten years just to get the permitting to do one of these facilities. That's a

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