>>>Is an EPA mandate at the national level to generate 28% of our electrical power from solar panels and wind turbines (with roughly two-thirds of that coming from wind) any less wrong? :)
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>You're asking somebody who lives where 80% of electricity comes from renewable energy. Having to increase to 28%?! Oh, the horror. Run, Chicken Little! Run!
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>OK, sorry, being flip! But lets not catastrophize.

Hopefully you acknowledge that the energy requirements of NZ and the US are a bit different :)

Solar and wind are not large-scale reliable sources. The entire supply/demand model are completely different. That's not a value judgment on one country vs another, it's a simple statement of fact.