Posted on 09/08/2020 3:58:56 AM PDT by Helicondelta
If the lunatics are elected rolling blackouts least of our problems.
Obama – Biden made sure that Iran could have nuclear power. No nukes is a lie.
Is any body taking any bets yet about when 1/3 of Californians will be chasing down garbage trucks to get their meals?
Note to any journo still worthy of the job description: Want some juicy to dig into...?
Look into Albany’s involvement with ESCOs.
BTW, solar and wind farms are proliferating up here. Unfortunately the citizenry that’s bought into it hasn’t had the nous to ask, among other things, about who’s gonna pay for the inevitable disposal costs.
Harris wants to bring blackouts and massive wildfires to the entire country while her pal 0mar wants to make the country look like Somalia. Those two are real prizes.
I know. It is kind of sad, though...you see the old decrepit faded gray barns with the weathered “Take Back VT” slogan.
We did have a great experience on trip up there last year. My wife and I were up there for some reason or another, and we wanted to go to the Cabot Cheese facility and take a tour. (we took the tour years ago, and it was great!)
However, due to state regulations, they were forced by the state to discontinue tours. So, we watched a little movie, went through the store, and that was it.
We decided to have lunch in town, but to be honest, Cabot, VT is a one horse town. Not a lot of options.
We saw a hardware store that had a counter with probably five stools, but after sitting there, they didn’t really serve food. The guy pointed his finger towards the back of the store and indicated we had to go back there. So back we went, in between the toilet repair parts and other meager plumbing supplies, until we came to a small room maybe 20 feet square at the most with four or five tables and a counter at one side with an old stove and other stuff behind the counter...run by a woman I’ll call “Millie”, who was in her late Sixties.
We ordered sandwiches, and began chatting with her. We ended up shooting the breeze with her for about an hour and a half (because nobody else was coming in) and it was great.
I come from a blue state, and Vermont is very blue too, but...in our conversation, she was evidently VERY conservative, and I felt right at home with her! She was obviously a townie and somewhat central to the heart of the town, because a woman came in to talk with her, and it was clear she was the source of advice for interpersonal relationships by many people, and dispensed very personal “Dear Abby” advice in a very public place in front of strangers, and nobody batted an eye...:)
And she loved talking with us...I suspect there were many Lefties and Libs she had to deal with all the time!
Loved it. Gave me hope. Conservatism lives!
I live in a “third world country: Philippines”. Today we had a brownout three times. The longest was 1 1/2 hrs. I have had brownouts last as long as three days, (sub station’s generator broke and spare parts had to be sent from Manila for repairs).
Maintenance is not regularly done on the equipment. Along with that, many of the power poles, (old wood style), are placed in the middle of rice fields where they are sitting in water for months at a time. Of course the water rot and termites take a toll on them. Fortunately those poles are slowly being moved out of the rice fields and closer to the roads and are being replaced with concrete or metal poles.
You learn to be prepared for the brownouts and stock up on ice to keep your freezer cold and, if you can afford one, you get a generator as a back-up.
I use a generator directly wired into a double throw switch. When I have to use the generator I flip the switch to disconnect from the “grid” and the generator is then supplying electricity to the full house using the existing switches and outlets. No need to run electrical cords all over the house to run lights and appliances.
Folks in California are not expecting to be without power, until now, and are not prepared for it. I bet there is a run on generators about now.
Glad I left almost 20 years ago and will not return.
Blackouts?
Isn’t that racist/??
Unfortunately, they only have 2/3 of the electricity they require!
We enjoy reliable electrical power here in flyover country.
kali can keep their blackouts.
Kamalatoe can go to hell.
All those windmill farms mixmastering all those bald eagles and California condors. Splendid California.
Having a standby generator has become a necessity here in New Hampshire. This is because for years the power company neglected to trim around the power lines. NH is the most forested state in the USA. In addition, we have designated scenic roads where the power company/town can not cut down a tree over 6” in diameter if it is within a certain distance from the road without specific permission from some local nanny state committee.
This all results in tree limbs breaking and whole trees falling on the power lines. For about ten years in a row, we would lose power one to three times/year. Sometimes for several days. Occasionally, during a big ice storm for a couple weeks.
We all now have Gentran or Protran transfer switch boxes. These are standard equipment on all new houses. Almost all older house have been retrofitted. In new subdivisions, standby gas(propane) generators are part of the package. We do not have natural gas here in most of the state because of the NIMBY effect of pipelines. Therefore, propane and heating oil are the primary heating/energy source other than WOOD and wood pellets.
One of the main problems with gasoline generators like the Honda I own is the fuel required to run them. The tank only holds 8 gallons. This is enough to run 24 hours. I have 3 gasoline cans that hold another 10 gallons. So, if the power outage lasts for a couple days, you need to go out and find it. The problem can be that many of the stations also do not have power. I remember one time passing three stations before I found one whose pumps were running. Then I stood in line for 45 minutes waiting to fill up.
The last major problem with standby generators is that EVERY time we have a power outage, some one kills themselves or their whole family due to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. They leave their generator in their garage that is connected to the house. They go to sleep and never wake up. Sometimes it is because they are afraid someone will steal their generator. This is also a common problem. People will steal your generator because you can not buy one anywhere during these power outages.
No offense to highly esteemed Fresno and other FReepers.
A right wing author (can’t remember who) said he really doubts if California declares it is leaving the USA by secession, more than a handful will say “No. No. Don’t do it. Come back, California.”
Mark Victor Hansen great quote on pampered lives of leftists.
Great post. I will save it.
Giur thorium fueled reactor may run forever but yiu still have to do r&m on the moving parts, pumps, turbines, piping, instruments, the building, and people need to retire and new ones need to be trained. Its not prepetutal motion. Things break or wear out.
If and when renewably sourced electricity becomes as (or more) cost efficient than current sources, it will spread faster than the virus.
OMG this idiot want to make rolling blackouts during a HEAT WAVE a model across the country!! You just can’t make this stuff up!!!
>>OMG this idiot want to make rolling blackouts during a HEAT WAVE a model across the country!! You just can’t make this stuff up!!!<<
There are MANY comments at the twitter thread saying “well, that didn’t age well.” LOL.
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