Powering the Grid with David Roberts
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Old System Just to Make Sure I'm Tracking Yours
So the old system just to make sure i'm tracking yours the old system is i've got a coal fire power plant. I can control how much coal we're putting in how quickly the turbine is how much power we're generating uh you know with a basically a lever right as it goes out into the grid and then it goes out and it goes over transmission lines and distribution lines and gets into people's homes or something like that whether it's natural gas or damsUh hydroelectric is that dispatchable can you control that pretty pretty easily right so you got a pretty staid system where we do our thing We either it's a it's either a dam or it's some fossil fuel
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