The Power Grid Made Comprehensible

[What’s The Biggest Machine In The World?] (Viewer #343,956)

It’s actually only 8 minutes, and it’s paced pretty well.

One weird thing I noticed: after explaining why wind and solar have only very limited scalability and why nuclear and fossil fuels are essential components of a reliable national power grid, he ends by pretending it doesn’t matter and blithely declaring that renewables are our future.

I hope he was being ironic.

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