1.0 link 120968 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-posner/dealing-with-the-variabil_b_120968.html The thing about fossil fuels is that they enable utilities, planners and policy-makers to, in effect, be dumb. Because fossil fuel is essentially stored solar energy, the fuel can simply be pulled out of the ground, transported to a large power plant and burned. No attention needs to be paid to wind speeds, cloud cover or tides. Of course, we know that the entire supply chain of conventional energy--from extraction, to processing, to transportation and on to...

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