The more important cost is the cost of the machine that harnesses the energy and then the grid and the facilities to deliver the energy. The problem of wind and solar has been the machines are huge. They're 10 times more steel and concrete and expensive materials than a natural gas power plant. To harness the same amount of energy and way more land and then additional transmission facilities because they take a lot of land to build these in, and then you … (48:40–48:51)
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