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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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The article goes a little further than that. The problem is not just nuclear, fossil, and geothermal listing reliability as an advantage.
If the article is to be believed, reliable power production is not a significant benefit anymore, given the extent of storage options to store the energy from intermittent wind and solar.
So the problem is, the geothermal industry is attacking wind and solar energy, using a talking point that is no longer valid - just like the fossil fuel industry is doing.
And attacks on wind and solar based on false premises are bad.
Aye, there's the rub. Contending that reliability of electricity generation isnt an important fact is wishful thinking at best (and boosterism of something you're invested in at worst). There is nowhere bigger than an isolated town or so that manages a grid without either reliable generation or power exchanges with another location that does have reliable generation.