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by tonyarkles 726 days ago
Yup… we’re probably building nuke plants. We are also building wind and solar. And some new natural gas plants. We don’t really have a whole lot left to tap for hydro, don’t really have good geography for pumped hydro storage, and while there is a pilot project on the go to try to generate electricity from mediocre geothermal we definitely don’t have good geothermal potential either. But… we sure grow a lot of food! And are starting to look at shuttering the coal plants.
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No, we'll build lots of wind, and also smooth long term imbalances with hydrogen.

Heavy industry will tend to migrate to sunnier areas.