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One of the big knocks against renewable resources is their intermittency. The sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow. One way to see this is by looking at the “capacity factor” of solar plants and wind farms. When you hear about renewable plants being built, you normally hear about the size of the […]

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Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of...