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| | The geniuses who are planning New York's energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. * The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark periods in the winter. How much battery storage will that take? It's a simple arithmetic calculation, but none of our supposed experts have taken the trouble to crunch the numbers. * Nevertheless, without any kind of feasibility study of whether this will work, they soldier forth building large grid-scale battery storage facilities. The battery building program is under way, at least to some degree, and a few such facilities are actuall...
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| | The state's ambitious clean energy buildout has hit an unexpected setback after three different grid batteries caught fire in the span of two months.
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| US corporations are enjoying some of the lowest borrowing costs in history. Even the more leveraged (high debt to earnings ratio) large an...