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1 posted on 02/24/2023 4:27:54 PM PST by george76
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Maybe we could hookup some electric cars in series with a generator and make some extra power..

That's as rational as anything they come up with...

2 posted on 02/24/2023 4:34:10 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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These woke morons will be the death of us all


3 posted on 02/24/2023 4:35:02 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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“Blackout risk: Nation’s largest grid operator warns of capacity shortfalls..”

No one is listening as the democrats slowly kill the country with their crap.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 4:36:35 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Just as the idiots are trying to eliminate gas powered cars.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 4:36:59 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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Something obvious to any EE.
But well beyond the laughable cognitive abilities of the majority of our politicians.

When the blackouts DO occur, responsible citizens hopefully will drive to the mansions of any politician that supported the green crap and make sure that those houses have no power. Backup generators? Well, if they are on, that’s not “no power”.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 4:37:58 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Rational person views this and says, perhaps we don’t act idiotic and we keep the 40,00 MW stations running.


8 posted on 02/24/2023 4:43:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Fact Check: Did Biden Rescind Trump Order Prohibiting Chinese Influence on US Power Grid?

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-biden-rescind-trump-order-prohibiting-chinese-influence-us-power-grid-1570684


11 posted on 02/24/2023 5:01:54 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Maybe,,,just maybe you don’t shut the plants down!

I know...crazy, right?
But it just might work!


12 posted on 02/24/2023 5:03:43 PM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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More EVs!!!!!!!!!!!

⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡🔌🔌🔌🔌


13 posted on 02/24/2023 5:13:42 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Don’t let anyone charge their electric cars from the grid.


14 posted on 02/24/2023 5:23:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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Even the freak-show Germans are keeping their coal plants on standby. It's expensive since they don't run them much and they run them inefficiently (demand-following rather than steady baseload). Typically they run coal (up to 50%) when the wind dies. Otherwise they get the majority of their power from wind. They also use very expensive solar/pumped storage combo.

It's expensive. Germans pay 40 cents (max allowed by law) including taxes and fees where the US average is now about 14 cents including taxes and fees. The power companies here are trying to keep costs down and are forced to close plants instead keeping them on standby.

The bottom line of course is the elite want you dead. No better way than to freeze you to death.

15 posted on 02/24/2023 5:33:45 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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The nation's largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants.

And so does the second largest; and third largest, and fourth... ad nauseum

16 posted on 02/24/2023 5:44:54 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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If you like cheap power for charging your government mandated EV, you can keep it. -— Obiden


18 posted on 02/24/2023 6:36:08 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.


20 posted on 02/24/2023 6:38:38 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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I believe this is what our betters call “the new normal”. Get used to it! Adjust your expectations and be prepared for a lower standard of living.

In a year or two from now, children will be taught it has always been this way. The best way to deal with such is to reduce your carbon footprint. This summer, turn off that air conditioner in order to do your part. Better yet, remove the AC system from your home entirely.

That white supremacy is hard on a nation.


21 posted on 02/24/2023 6:43:57 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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The ones we clearly see coming never seem to get us.
Like Y2K, for example.

We still haven’t figured out where millions of former participants in the pre-COVID work force have disappeared to.
For all we know by the time we have less generating capacity it may not matter because we will be much fewer in number.
For whatever reason.


22 posted on 02/24/2023 7:04:37 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Hopium to the rescue.


23 posted on 02/24/2023 7:10:33 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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I figured this is coming so I’ve been working on a solar solution to hold up critical things in a rolling blackout scenario and will be getting a small generator as well.


24 posted on 02/24/2023 7:13:39 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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Prepper ping - "PJM Interconnection, which manages grid operations across 13 states and the District of Columbia, published new analysis with early (Fossil fuel) retirements
I am sure some agency will get right to it,.... eventually !
Now, bring on the electric cars which will increase usage demand without considering an electrical generating source.

" The nation's largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity
as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants."

"It's a challenge facing grid operators across the country as power generators mothball coal and natural gas-fired plants for various reasons,
such as reducing high maintenance and regulatory compliance costs or cutting greenhouse gas emissions."

"PJM Interconnection, which manages grid operations across 13 states and the District of Columbia, published new analysis Friday showing retirements
outpacing new additions in the coming years that could leave its service area short of thousands of megawatts of capacity by 2030."

"Retirements are at risk of outpacing the construction of new resources, due to a combination of industry forces,
including siting and supply chain, whose long-term impacts are not fully known," it said in its report."

" PJM said this shortfall is on track due to a "potential timing mismatch" between retirements, growing electricity demand, and the pace of new generation coming online."

26 posted on 02/24/2023 7:31:24 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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Has the country hardened the grid against the all to easy crippling effects of a single well positioned EMP? If not then there is nothing the utilities can do anyway.


29 posted on 02/24/2023 7:49:47 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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