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Renewables is a pretty big expansion of natural gas. im sure people had told me that, and i didnt believe them. >> were building these all over the country, and one of the questions we ask, we need about 3,000 foot in altitude, we need flat land, we need 300 days sunlight and near a gas pipe. because for all of these big utility scale power plants, whether its wind or solar, everybody is looking at gas as the supplementary fuel. but the plants that were building, the wind plants and solar plants...

Its not just -- >> what do you mean by that? >> pipelines and electricity transmission lines lead to coal plants where theres the most wind and solar. you dont have transmission lines built there. its not a matter of plucking one piece of a system out and putting a new piece in. you talk about building a whole new system, and its very hard to sort of compare unit costs when youre talking about that. youre talking about a more holistic view of things. >> i think its important to point out that wi...