* Posts by molechaser

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Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030

molechaser
FAIL

Let's Do the Math!

This is bogus! Simple secondary school math will show how ridiculous this claim is. It's called combinations. We have, according to the report, 2 categories of items to choose from for the number of combinations. Those are energy sources and storage techniques. If there are X different possible energy sources and Y different storage techniques, then the # of combinations of the 2 items is X multiplied by Y. For those #'s to be a minimum they have to be the same, so the solution to the problem becomes a staggering 167,332 energy sources and 167,332 storage techniques. If either group is smaller then the other must be larger to maintain the product as 28 billion. I defy anyone to enumerate that many different energy sources or storage techniques.