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Originally Posted by Azure
You can't just 'deploy' baseload power generation quickly.
Solar is not baseload
Wind is not baseload
Nuclear is too expensive and takes too long to build
Hydro same thing
What are we left with for baseload generation?
Oh right.
Natural gas.
Too bad we're not serious about it.
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I hope we are more forward looking about this.
A gas plan takes ~4 years to build, and tons of these things are built every year.
Nuclear right now takes 6-8 years on average which is "too long" I guess, but some people are pulling it off a lot faster:
