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Fossil
VS Non-Fossil

Wind power

Natural gas
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Natural gas has 24/7 power meaning that it can be used any time of the day
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The Mortlake gas process takes 6 minutes to start up, it can be turned on and off
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Natural gas is non-renewable so it can run out, so it is not reliable forever.
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Seeing the natural gas system is underground, outages are rare
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It isn't windy 24/7 so we can't rely on wind to generate electricity everyday
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Wind power is renewable so it won't run out
Reliability
This page describes how reliable each fuel source is.
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