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2. Wind & Solar Systems are now at industrial scale

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2026, 01:56 AM

15 hrs ago

This is a huge global success story. The fact that D.Trump is so engaged in a war against renewable energy tells us these systems are viable and are cutting fossil fuel profits. The record 17% of electricity is great but it should be much higher. Artificial barriers must be removed to encourage full use of these effectively limitless resources.

Hydrogen can be produced using both Solar and Wind energy and next big step will be the development of systems using hydrogen fuel cells and the supporting infrastructure for such systems.

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Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 [View all] Caribbeans 21 hrs ago OP

Where would we be without it? bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #1

Living in a sustainable world? NNadir 15 hrs ago #4

Wind & Solar Systems are now at industrial scale thought crime 15 hrs ago #2

Um, well, duh, that means 83% of American electricity is produced by other means, particularly at times it's actually... NNadir 15 hrs ago #3