Posted on 02/23/2021 7:00:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Nearly 4 million Texans lost power during a historic ice storm last week, a storm that ravaged a broad swath of the country. As PJ Media’s Bryan Preston noted, two highly-touted forms of green energy, wind and solar, took big hits during the blackout. Natural gas energy production increased to compensate for it. Another energy source proved rather reliable during the blackout, however. This energy source does not involve fossil fuel emissions, but climate activists often ignore it.
This more reliable energy source is none other than nuclear power. While nuclear power did take a hit during the Texas blackout, three-quarters of Texas’ nuclear power plants remained online. Even the dip in nuclear energy production should allay Americans’ fears about the safety of nuclear power.
As The Washington Examiner reported, one of the two reactors at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station shut down during the storm, knocking out about half of the station’s 2,700 megawatts of generating capacity. The second reactor at the plant continued operating as normal, providing more than 1,300 megawatts of electricity.
The Comanche Peak nuclear plant, Texas’ other two-unit nuclear facility, continued running as normal during the blackouts. That means only one of Texas’ four nuclear reactors went offline during the storm.
Nuclear power plants usually weather storms rather well, providing carbon-free power around the clock. Yet as Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian pointed out, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) did not build up Texas’ power plants to face cold weather, despite a federal report warning about this weakness over a decade ago.
“It’s very rare for weather issues to shut down a nuclear plant,” Brett Rampal, director of nuclear innovation at the Clean Air Task Force, told The Examiner.
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GOOD IDEA, That way only 1 state is effected. People are either dumb or can’t understand that a terrorist EMP will take out a whole connected grid. back to horse and coal oil lighting, If not worse, Best be Stocked up, and Lock and Loaded. Trading items will be money. Cars built before chips went in might run, if you can find gas. Water has to be filtered.
From Wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003
"The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States,
and the Canadian province of Ontario on August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT..
Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 p.m. on August 14 (within 2 hours),.."
The Grid electrical collapse started in Canada.
It caused the grid collapse all the way through Ontario, Canada, as far as Rhode Island, as far west as Ohio, and as south as Pennsylvania.
The fact that currently Chinese parts are going to be introduced into the Grid, under the current administration, raises my concern about Grid security.
The Wikipedia article minimizes the outage as many places, myself included, were without power for over 1 and 1/2 days.
That includes traffic lights, night security alarms, refrigeration, and food preparation; the blessing is that it didn't occur during a full-blown winter storm.
Next time, ... ??
I have not yet purchased, but it is on the list of upgrades for my diesel truck. I have other electrical issues to address first along with suspension. Just sharing the information for others.
The device you suggested in your post #24, proports to be an EMP electronic vehicle protection at a reasonable price point.
Honestly, it is the first such vehicle device that I have seen, which states that it military grade protection for electronics in vehicles.
Given the dominance of electronics in modern transportation vehicles, not to mention the expansion of "all electric vehicles", this device could be a game changer.
Thank you for the information.
Nuclear plants are good for base load electricity, but they can’t change output levels quickly, at least not the old ones in the US where the average age of a nuclear plant is about 40 years old. Some new nuclear plants can ramp up to large percentage increases in the range of around one hour. But, we don’t have any of those due to enviro weenies.
Reference protection for cars and automobiles -
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I have not yet purchased, but it is on the list of upgrades for my diesel truck.
Just sharing the information for others.
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