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+Grid reliability depends on dispatchable generation from nonrenewable energy—minor shifts in the supply-demand balance cascade into blackouts |
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+Fisher, 15—IER Economist (Travis, “ASSESSING EMERGING POLICY THREATS TO THE U.S. POWER GRID,” http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Threats-to-U.S.-Power-Grid.compressed.pdf, dml) |
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+Electric reliability in the U.S. is excellent overall, which is a |
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+AND |
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+Central and South America, Eurasia, and the Middle East combined.21 |
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+Plan kills the grid |
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+Mills 2015- Senior Fellow @ The Manhattan Institute |
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+Mark P, "The Clean Power Plan Will Collide With the Weird Physics of the Electric Grid," Aug 7, https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/clean-power-plan-will-collide-weird-physics-electric-grid-6354.html |
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+The idiosyncratic physics of electricity will ultimately doom the aspirational goals of the new 1 |
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+AND |
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+and less reliable will be terrible for the economy and toxic for politicians. |
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+Intermittency causes nuclear war |
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+Andres and Breetz, 11—Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College AND doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Richard and Hanna, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications,” Strategic Forum, February 1, 2011, dml) ableist language modifications denoted by brackets |
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+Grid Vulnerability. DOD is unable to provide its bases with electricity when the civilian |
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+AND |
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+however, may not share this fear or be deterred by this possibility. |