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In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very few renewables are wound down, though. Usually the excess is used to fill pumped storage or turn down hydro plants. For now that’s a viable strategy but soon are exceed renewable will be have to be used someplace else so it’s not a bad idea. I doubt it’ll be enough though.