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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

Pretty good. The modification I'd make is replace the "SCC" with "trajectory of tax rate on net CO2 emissions that achieves optimum CO2 concentration in the atmosphere." [Sorry that it's harder to say.]

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vboring's avatar

Always entertaining and insightful!

The part that winds people up is their vested interests and attachments. If you work in a coal mine or near a plant, this informs your biases.

If you own a lot of stock in a wind energy company, same story.

The people who make the decisions are often influenced by this garbage, or their parties are, so they are.

If we had unbiased technocrats competently running the show and regulations based on something like reality, the answer would be pretty close to a French generation mix everywhere - mostly nuclear with some gas speakers.

Some places would need more gas peakers for extreme weather events, others would need less. Some places with extraordinarily boring weather might do with more storage and less gas.

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