"El Niño is Spanish for..."The Niño!"
Posted on 11/27/2023 8:13:01 AM PST by bitt
Weather pundits on TV and even The Old Farmers Almanac are telling us key factors like Solar Cycle 25, El Nino, and a polar vortex moving south from the North Pole will combine to give most of the U.S. a colder and a much more snowy winter. Are we ready? Is the Biden administration ensuring our gas and coal-fired power plants are winterized and have enough fuel? Of course not.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a not-for-profit regulatory authority whose stated mission is "to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid," released a report warning that two-thirds of the United States is facing winter power blackouts. That will happen because of our reliance on solar and wind farms and the retirement and cancellation of new coal and natural gas power plants.
Peter Zeihan, geographer and demographer extraordinaire, has sounded the alarm. He knows the re-industrialization of the United States is beginning and is poised to exceed the astounding growth of American manufacturing capacity in the early years of WWII. The demand for more electric power will happen because America is shortening its vulnerable supply chains and rebuilding industries that moved to China and other countries. Zeihan notes, “Conservative estimates show electricity demand increasing by more than 50%,” adding that if we also electrify transportation we must double the number of power plants needed.
Now we come to Michael Bloomberg. With $96.3 billion he is the 12th richest man in the world. Like Zeihan he is a greenie but one with infinitely less understanding of the need for more power plants and the impact on our electrical grid by the global warming hoax. After Bloomberg pledged $500 million in September, his Bloomberg Philanthropies stated that money would “finish the job on coal” and “slash gas plant capacity in half, and block all new gas plants” in favor of wind and solar energy. Unlike Zeihan, Bloomberg does not understand that the transition to green energy he is funding will destabilize our power grid, damage transformers, and cause long-term outages.
Happily, Bloomberg’s plan to crush coal-fired power plants is sailing onto the rocks and shoals of America’s re-industrialization demands for a robust power supply. An example of those demands is the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas. That 2.7 million square foot plant requires so much reliable energy that the local coal-fired plant cannot be closed. Instead, it will be expanded and its life extended.
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Sure am.
lol. You mean like the ones that were promised last year? Along with that stock market crash or the deep recession? Look , I am not a fan of this senile old fart of a president we have or of his dumb girl VP. I also am not a fan of fear porn..
Yep. Got firewood stacked high and a Champion dual fuel genny plus a smaller backup one to run the well house. We’ve had power go down for over a week in the dead of winter. It’s a hard lesson for the unprepared.
> Is the Biden administration ensuring our gas and coal-fired power plants are winterized and have enough fuel? Of course not. <
I would be thrilled if Biden’s team would just do nothing, and let private industry take care of things. But Biden is doing something. He’s actively making things worse.
You just wait. When the outages come, they will be blamed on Climate Change. So of course we must increase the government’s command and control.
Under Obama's cap and trade plan, no one will be able to afford to run a coal fired plant.
For a greenie to ignore one of Obama's fundamental points, that alone should land him in prison facing life imprisonment.
Well, we would not be having problems like solar cycle 25 if we all rode bi cycles instead of driving fast comfortable cars all around.
Not worried. I live in Florida. Bitter cold Winter does not show up here.
Ditto for us. We have a dual fuel generator up at our rural compound that will run our entire 38 ft RV. If the lights go out we take off for the compound and hole up there glampng in style indefinitely. 😎
Sure he does. Bloomie just doesn't care.
Yes.
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Michael Bloomberg called for 90% instead of 100% reduction of US CO2 emissions as I recollect.
Biden’s EPA will require by existing regulations ‘green’ hydrogen or CO2 recapture by 2032.
Expect soaring electric bills.
Most happily....Greenie Bloomberg’s $500M plan to crush coal-fired power plants is sailing
onto the rocky shoals of America’s re-industrialization demands for a robust power supply.
The stupid billionaire never figured energy demands might include the huge $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas that requires so much reliable energy that the local coal-fired plant cannot be closed.
Instead, the coal plant will be expanded and its life extended.
Happy days are here, again, no thanks to the greenies.
We had a low of +2F in Pocatello this morning. We might warm to +29F today. My son left Pocatello for Pensacola. He likes it thus far. I chose Idaho over San Diego. No regrets thus far.
"El Niño is Spanish for..."The Niño!"
About as ready as I am for power squats.
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