I recently quoted a couple sentences from Mann’s provocative article on the energy industry. Here is another gem I thought I’d pass on:
To ask utilities to take in large amounts of solar power–electricity generated by hundreds or thousands of small installations, many on neighborhood roofs and lawns, whose output is affected by clouds–is like asking a shipping firm to replace its huge, professionally staffed container ships with squadrons of canoes paddled by random adolescents.
As the father of two adolescents, I found that analogy particularly powerful.
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