This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To ‘Electrify Everything’

Forbes Magazine ^ | Feb 15, 2021 | Robert Bryce

[Dr. Sivana]

Yup, I remember in a pinch using our gas stove to heat the house when the power was out in Connecticut.

[stanne]

No idea what I’d have done today without gas stove oven and fireplace. No power for 10 hours in 18 degrees. 6 inches of icy snow all around all over the roads

No idea.

After ice storm of 1979 in LI I don’t ever have a house without a fireplace or gas oven. Unless I live on base

Even Here in Texas.

Electric everything. Nope.

[exnavy]

Some of us didn’t need thatto be convinced.

[OrangeHoof]

Actually, the Left wants all energy converted from solar, wind and hydroelectric. They want to eliminate fossil fuels altogether. That’s what the whole climate change hooey is all about - getting the world weaned off of oil and gas. Oddly, they demonize nuclear power which is both “clean” and renewable.

[Nateman]

Natural gas is an issue in earthquake prone area’s. Unless you have the special earthquake gas shut off value it often causes fires after the earthquake.

[Nateman]

As oil and coal run out , the price is going to rise and other sources will become competitive. It is an issue that will take care of itself. Of course the goal of the left is always power first, people last , so letting it take care of itself is the last thing they want .

[a fool in paradise]

Or

Don’t travel
Don’t produce
Don’t procreate

North Korea, Stalin, and African dictators can explain all about putting the screws to people.

[a fool in paradise]

The Left supports Iran getting nuclear power.

Stalinists lie. Always

The issue is never the issue

[a fool in paradise]

Climate change is about seizing the means of production from industry through agriculture.

[a fool in paradise]

No solution with frozen windmills and solar panels. They aren’t producing, this is why we have a power shortage today.

Price competition is not the reason.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The issue is revolution.

[Nateman]

...Price competition is not the reason.

Absolutely. The problem is the loony left trying to get a piece of everybody's pie and wanting to micromanage everybody's lives.

[colorado tanker]

Robert Bryce is the host of the Power Hungry Podcast. An author and journalist, Bryce has been writing about energy, politics, and the environment for more than 30 years. He has published six books in which he has covered numerous topics including Enron’s bankruptcy, the rise of Texas, corn ethanol, digital drilling rigs, renewables, batteries, nuclear energy, and the future of the electric grid. He is a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post, and Sydney Morning Herald. His latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, was published in March 2020. His new feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, is available on iTunes, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Lorin, who is an art teacher, photographer, and master potter.

Give you 10-1 odds he voted for bite-me. And is a Trump hater. Get used to the cold dude. You’re going to get more of it. Or are you a climate change guy too? Then no worries right? Cold is warm!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Remember COVID19’s 2-3 weeks lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’??

I see an analogy to a few hours of rolling blackouts.
Panic had begun to set in after 45 minutes to one hour.

How easy it would be for the DeepState to implement a big ‘rolling blackout’ until say, you have all turned in your firearms to “flatten the curve” on shootings
... Just for a couple of months or so

It’s gonna get ugly before it gets beautiful again

[HKMk23]

“Unless you have the special earthquake gas shut off value it often causes fires after the earthquake.”

1906 can’t be the paradigm in the 21st Century.

CA Native with 50+ years in-grade & I can tell you they scare the bejeezus out of people with that stuff, and for sure if a gas leak meets a source of ignition there’ll be trouble, but “often causes” is in the dystopian horror flick of the terminally terrified.

In the Real World, it’s “could cause” and the odds are long enough that actual occurrences are anomalous. Furthermore, in a quake strong enough to spark dozens of structure fires from gas leaks, it won’t be the lines INSIDE the building that will be the biggest problem; it’ll be ruptured gas mains OUTSIDE under the street. You get seismic shutoff valves designed to cut service on those lines, and all the many building service meter connections will be just fine without independent shutoff valves of their own.

[SauronOfMordor]

After a winter where power was out for close to 2 days, we replaced our electric stove with gas, as a supplement to our fireplace. And stocked lots of wood.

[alexander_busek]

This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To ‘Electrify Everything’

But, but... As the Bolsheviks never tired of telling us back in the 1930s: Soviet Power + Electrification = Communism."

Regards,

[Organic Panic]

I live off grid. I have solar and propane. It was REALLY cold and dark so no PV power all week. The propane provided heat AND electricity via the propane generator. I would love to see a watermelon live this spartan. It all looks so easy from the comfort of their college offices. But of course rough living is having to fly commercial for these clowns.

[reg45]

Iran isn’t interested in nuclear power. It wants nuclear weapons.