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How do you compare solar energy and wind energy?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Both are renewable.

That's the the usual term but it's a dreadful one because energy is not "renewable". They are to all practical purposes inexhaustible instead, and they share one source: the sun's heat which then drives the weather systems.

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