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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><b>…</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…I asked</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> GPT the following question: "Is </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>coal produce electricity cheaper than solar or wind produced</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>power?</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>" And this is what GPT said: </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>In short: Generally, no —… AI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>But in longer, generally, the question compares two things which are not strictly comparable because they don’t do the same thing. The biggest difference is the coal plant output can be adjusted as needed. The solar farm gives you power according to how much sun is shining that day. The wind farm is even less predictable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>To meet the reliability and availability specifications, the solar farm and way more so the wind farm need power storage, which generally isn’t calculated in directly, nor is the risk cost associated with catastrophes such as the Moss Landing fire in January. We still don’t know the cost of cleaning up that catastrophe, but it won’t be cheap. The storage capacity Moss Landing once provided now is mostly gone, and no one wants a battery plant nearby, for reasons we saw.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>When the ballot proposals were put in place to compel PG&E to buy 30% renewables now, 50% by 2030, 100% by 2045, they told us how wind power is so price competitive etc, without ever mentioning the intermittent and unpredictability. The power company explained that, but since it was voter-facing literature, it had to be written on a fifth grade level, and since it was California voters, fifth graders can’t read. So it had to be written on a third grade level. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Some concepts, such as power distribution, just don’t simplify down very effectively. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I already knew the proposition had the simplest-slogan advantage. Whichever politician has the fewest words and least intellectual content has an advantage. Victorious examples: I Like Ike. Or Nixon: Now more than ever. MAGA worked twice, once against I’m With Her and once against We’re Not Going Back (an odd choice for an incumbent.) The power proposition had: Renewable Energy for California. It didn’t say it was cheap energy. The price of power went from 19 cents to 41 cents on my last bill, and it is still going up. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>