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Shidan Gouran unpacks energy myths and explores emerging solutions like the Electric Stack
The single biggest lie in the energy world is that the sun doesn’ t always shine and the wind doesn’ t always blow. It’ s a great little soundbite, and it used to be true. But something happened in 2024 that completely blew that argument out of the water.
In some parts of the world, solar energy started producing power every single hour of every single day. Think about that; we crossed a line, a huge, invisible line – and everyone’ s still talking about baseload power.
This entire debate is built on a lie. It’ s not about baseload anymore. That’ s a 20thcentury concept. It’ s like arguing about whether your new mainframe computer is powerful enough, but the rest of the world has already moved on to the cloud.
The myth of‘ baseload’
For decades, the grid was a simple, brutalist thing. You had these giant power plants – coal, gas, nuclear – that you’ d fire up and just have them run 24 / 7. That’ s baseload. It made sense when everything was centralized and
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