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...In total, Google has contracted with clean energy developers to bring more than 2,800 megawatts of new wind and solar projects to the state, which it says exceeds the amount of power required for its operations there...
The big lies about solar and wind energy are always advanced using, illiterately, units of
power Watts as opposed to units of
energy, Joules.
The lie is advanced to pretend that this junk, all of which will be landfill within 25 years, fairly toxic landfill possibly depending on the types of solar cells used, offers continuous energy.
This is not true. The capacity utilization of solar and wind systems are typically below 30%, meaning if we agree that the upper limit will hold, 30%, meaning that this vast expanse of ruined land will produce as much as a single moderately sized thermal power plant will produce the equivalent electrical energy of an 840 Megawatt powerplant operated continuously.
Continuous power, not interrupted power, is required to run the servers that run Google.
This means that when the sun isn't shining, and the wind isn't blowing, situations commonly obtained, particularly because of a concept that is somehow difficult to have recognized in this kind of fossil fuel entrenchment, called "night," fossil fuels will be burned and the waste dumped directly into the planetary atmosphere, where it is killing the planet. (Google doesn't shut down because of the existence of "night." Anyone is free to check this out.)
The Germans have a term for windless nights,
"Dunkelflaute"
This is marketing and nothing else, and actually represents a huge waste of money, part of an advertising budget.
The solar and wind affectation, at a cost of trillions of dollars, has done nothing, zero, zilch, to the address extreme global heating we are observing because of the lies we tell ourselves and each other.
It's lipstick on a rabid pig.
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