Who is paying for all of this?
E&E News (7/31/19) reports: "In showdowns set up by the CNN moderators during the first part of the second set of debates in the 2020 primary, candidates including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that their ambitious platforms are more in line with the urgency of climate change than the policies that candidates such as former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney framed as more politically viable. 'I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas,' Sanders, a progressive who favors the Green New Deal, remarked after Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan outlined how his manufacturing agenda would make the United States a worldwide leader in technologies like electric vehicles and solar panels... Warren plugged her plans to spend trillions of dollars fighting climate change, including efforts to increase U.S. production of clean energy technology and export it worldwide."
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"Relying on wind for nearly one-third of Texas’ electricity poses serious reliability issues to the power grid. Access to inexpensive wind power is great when the wind is blowing. But often in the late afternoons of July and August, when demand for power is strongest, the wind dies down in West Texas, where most of the turbines are installed. That is why it’s so important to maintain a healthy reserve margin with baseload plants, which supply electricity continuously. Texas needs coal, nuclear, and large gas plants."
– Bernard L. Weinstein, Maguire Energy Institute
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