the market sucks at doing anything other than profits for an increasingly small populace

i’m sorry, we power scaled a 3kilometer wide sun on earth?

oh, the old “base load” lie? the one that exists because large power companies want to keep milking their massive investment power plants to generate more ROI.

think about it, it stipulates that a “base load” power plant should be running all the time to cover the load on the grid, but what would be the point of renewables then? you’re not going to magically consume more power just because wind/solar are producing more.

no, if you actually want renewables used, you need secondary power generation that can be ramped up or down in minutes not weeks that can be adjusted based on grid load and renewable production, but that would mean less uptime for the lucrative big power plants.