The question is no longer will there be rolling blackouts or grid emergencies but rather when or where.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Commentary: The EPA’s Coming Energy Catastrophe
The nation’s electric grid experts and operators now work in a constant state of emergency. There’s little if any respite in the change of seasons. Fears of soaring electricity demand overwhelming power supplies during searing summer heat are now matched by an equally unnerving fear millions will be left shivering in darkness during the coldest days of winter.
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And the demolition of the country continues. I'm thinking the only way things will change requires some high volume activity.
ReplyDelete*high velocity*
DeleteDid you mean high velocity?
DeleteQuantity _and_ quality…
DeleteCoelacanth
High volume of high mass at high velocity. Yes, please.
DeleteThe ruling class has been removing stable sources of base load power such as coal and nuke plants, replacing them with variable sources like wind and solar backed up by gas plants. Brownouts and blackouts are the result of this switch. That base load of power was what was keeping everything working. Expensive equipment is often destroyed by the frequent low voltage conditions.
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DeleteSpeaking of the ruling class America’s owners, AK the ruling class own all the important land, corporations, the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, city halls, judges and the big media companies.
> If EPA is unwilling to change course and recognize the threat posed by its rule makings, FERC, Congress and the states must step in.
ReplyDeleteEarlier this month Texas passed Proposition 7 which created the Texas Energy Fund which will support and finance the “construction, maintenance, and modernization of electric generating facilities.” The fund will be started with $5 Billion from the General Revenue Fund. The focus is expected be on natural gas fired generation.
The growing movement of states stepping in where the Fed has failed moves forward again.
Texas is different. The feds (under FERC) do not have jurisdiction over the Texas electric grid. The state legislature is responsible for the grid operator, ERCOT.
DeleteNatgas because wind doesn't cut it as they've found out.
DeleteThey're at least trying to put "reliable" back in ERCOT.
Steve S6
First world countries need reliable and cheap power. We need coal and nuclear as base load. Nuclear could be load following, but pretty much every rule the NRC has come out with for nuclear power is aimed at raising cost without accomplishing much. The government has not lived up to its responsibility with respect to fuel and could not operate the reprocessing facilities at Savannah River and Hannaford while following their own rules. Wind and solar are pipe dreams for the first world but are decent solutions for niche applications in the third world.
ReplyDeleteThe US has cleaned up its pollution act significantly, and we needed to. Pretty much every decision on nuclear made by the gov't for the last 40 years has been a problem. Utilities are extending the life of the plants rather than update with newer equipment and newer technology. The amount of plutonium produced is insane. It is much more dangerous as a heavy metal than as a radioactive. We could fission it away, if we would build the plants to do so. If we changed plant design we could also get a lot less plutonium in the future. I'm pro-nuke but we seriously need to stop what we are doing asap!
you will notice the epa did not say a thing about the millions of uninvited guests who will need power, heat, water and sanitary needs over and above whats currently in place. they can just shove it.
ReplyDeletethey are here to replace us.
DeleteWhat did they expect when power plants have been removed from the grid and replaced with nothing? All we needed to do to see where that would takes us is look at California.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to stop screwing around and start building nuclear, lots of nuclear. These new plants would "be your grandfather's nuclear power plants", but new Gen IV plants which are safer, more efficient, easier/cheaper/faster to build and could use the 'depleted' fuel from Gen I and Gen II plants for fuel.
Renewables aren't the answer. Oh, they look great on paper, but once built and commissioned, they don't even come close to meeting demand and are NOT reliable. NOT cheap, and would not be built without heavy tax subsidies.
Every state needs to have enough nuclear power plants to meet 150% of their base loads, enough coal generation capability to reach 200% of peak demand and enough natural gas generation to fill the gaps times two when increases happen faster than a coal generator can be brought on line .
DeleteAs for the bat smackers, make them subscription, if you want your energy to be "renewable" you have to accept brownouts and blackouts.
I would allow hydro to stand in for gas.
As for solar, only allow it to be mounted on existing structures.
That's my two cents, anybody got change?
grabbermint IS the problem.
ReplyDeletenot the solution.
Once the government decides to get involved in a non problem area to fix it it's always royalty fucked up and 5x more expensive..
ReplyDeleteOh and fuck slo joe and kamel toe
JD
Careful! Chances are you'd get an std from either of them.
DeleteYet all the energy co CEO s still get their mega million paychecks
ReplyDeleteEPA ,FBI, ATF and many others need to go away.
ReplyDeleteJust enforce the enumerated powers on the Fed gov. That will get rid of 95% of it and solve those and much more.
DeleteSteve S6
It's almost like self-sabotage. And when you add the "Plandemic" it becomes clear TPTB are NOT acting in our best interests!
ReplyDeleteThe EU countries found out the hard way that "going green", by decommissioning their coal and some of their older nuke plants was exactly the WRONG decision last winter and it wasn't just because they contracted with a maniac for their energy needs. Bribem and a lot of the "elected representatives" in the swamp want us to emulate the EU, to our detriment, as we have been finding out since 2021. Wind and solar will NEVER fill the growing demands for energy to power first world economies.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Sad that we can see what's coming at us like a freight train and yet the solution still eludes most... Tribe Up, Be a Slave/Prisoner or Die...
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