I'm not American, and our hydroelectric grid here is a crown corporation (read publicly owned), but that does not change the fundamentals of alternating current in any way. The system is designed from the beginning for a relatively small number of large generators using inertia to keep each other synchronized. Synchronizing a large number of small generators with no inertia is not simple or straightforward. Yes, it will gradually happen over time. The fact that time is not yet now is a technical problem, not a conspiracy.

Having watched my mother slowly waste away over a period of years from Alzheimer's, I certainly wish that on you and your family.

Right, everything is a conspiracy against you. Must be a Trumptard.

Most refining capacity increases in North America currently come from the upgrading of existing refineries. It's almost impossible to build new ones these days (for the same reason we can't have many nice things), so unless it can be retrofit you are quite likely correct.

LOL. Search engines are your friend. Learn about AC grids before pretending to know about them. Here is a good overview to bring you up to speed, it is even written by renewable advocates.

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy2...

If she died while burning fossil fuels and the fossil fuels killed her isn't that like suicide?

Knowing it is warming does not in itself represent a sufficient level of predictive ability with which to profit.

Any kind of grid needs stability. You can't just hook a bunch of small independent generators together and expect it to just work.

If you could predict climate with any sort of accuracy and granularity you could become very, very rich. Hell, accurately predicting the start and end of a single drought could set you up for life.

But they can't, so they aren't.

Flywheels (and synchronous condensers, basically spinning generators that don't actually generate, and are often old fossil plants) are both forms of artificial inertia used to control the AC waveform. You can use smart inverters (which are not capable of black start but are getting better), or you can use traditional spinning inertia, but the nature of AC grids is you need one or the other. If you allow dumb inverters you MUST have enough inertia elsewhere in the system to support them. There are no grids outside of experimental microgrids where inverters control everything. Spinning inertia is still very much how modern AC electrical grids work, and will be for the foreseeable future.

OK. I don't disagree, but I don't see much point in arguing AC vs DC in a Tesla vs Edison sense. We have the grids we have and won't be green fielding anything new anytime soon. I think we agree dumb inverters are a problem. That seems to be the unsurprising takeaway here.

DC transmission provides no inertia either though, you still have to add it back at the converter station. We use synchronous condensers for that purpose with our DC transmission from northern hydro dams.

Er, three e's. LOL.

Defecate has two e's.

Like Google, Microsoft, Meta et al, nothing about Apple is a net Good Thing. That you think they are somehow different is fanboi-ism, not rational thought.