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Going the right direction, for sure. But per the post above where you highlighted the current fuel mix, it looks like storage capacity is currently only about 5.5% of the total energy capacity.

That's definitely true. The problem however is that you have to have the energy capacity to almost completely replace what you get from solar/wind if you're not getting reliable sun and/or wind. That's where storage can really help, because you can balance out that load.

Yep, and 5 years ago the capacity would be 0%.  So we're creeping up energy storage, where it makes sense.  

You'd need 49 farms 1 x 1 mile to be equial.  My point is it takes a lot of room for solar.  One might see what seems to be a massive solar farm that in fact is pretty insignificant.

The newest two power reactors that just opened recently are 34 miles south of Augusta and  18 miles from the small town of Waynesboro.  The land around the plant is farm land mostly, not unoccupied.  It did take forever and a lot of money to get the plants built.

We have about 10 solar farms right here in my county already, and a few more are planned.  Some are the same farm, with different expansions.  There a bunch being built in Wharton county as well.  

I didn't literally mean that the Nuke plant is in the middle of nowhere, obviously there are settlements in and around where it is.  
But you said it, it's in the middle of large swaths of farmland.  I'm contrasting it with say the plants in Cali that are right by populated cities and the ones on the East Coast right next to cities etc.  

There has never been an October, or any MONTH, without rain in Atlanta since recordkeeping began in 1878. Those few showers we saw over the weekend didn’t fall at the airport, so the record stands. No rain is in the forecast through Thursday 10/31, and no rain is in the forecast over the next 7 days.

didn't atlanta get rain from the hurricane

was that over a month ago already?

Milton passed over Florida and moved into the Atlantic. October 10.

Helene hit Florida and proceeded North to cause a lot of damage with heavy rains. September 28.

Helene caused some rain here, but it wasn't dramatic, some flooding in a few areas and some trees down.  It went east of us.  October is often a dry month here but not this dry, I don't see visible evidence of drought stress, but the trees are starting to drop leaves anyway.  It's still pretty green.