Posted on 07/25/2023 5:39:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The old joke in which one fellow asks what the socialists used for lighting before candles and the other fellow answers “electricity” could use some updating. Substitute “socialists” for “U.S. Democrats.” But it won’t be just the Democrats using candles, it’s going to be all of us.
When the power goes out, most of us just have to wait until it’s restored to get back to our normal lives. In the meantime, as we wander through a dark house flipping useless switches out of habit, we make sure we don’t open the refrigerator and we put off anything we had planned that requires us to burn electricity. The more-prepared among us, though, buy fossil-fuel-powered generators to avoid interruptions
Their future, though, is in doubt. The Biden administration wants those generators to go the way of the incandescent light bulb.
“Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market,” the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this week.
This proposed rule would limit the amount of carbon monoxide a product can release, establishing a benchmark beyond the reach of all but a few current generators. The Free Beacon says the Consumer Product Safety Commission admits “that 95% of portable gas generators on the market cannot comply with its new standard.”
Should the rule become “law,” industry officials expect a shortage of generators will follow, as manufacturers would have only have six months to develop a compliant design. Under normal conditions, that would take years, according to the Portable Generator Manufacturers’ Association.
While some homeowners use standby generators, which have more permanence about them, to provide power when the lights go out, portables are used as well, with “far more people” choosing them because of price. What the cost-conscious consumers didn’t know when they made their purchases is that one day they would be punished for their choice. But those who have standby generators shouldn’t feel too smug. The Democrats will eventually come after those, too.
How will I cook my bugs?
and if that doesn’t make you bow...wait ‘til the surge after the blackout.
Been noticing down here in Florida. Utility companies installing ‘breakers’ in residential transformer feeds from the higher voltage lines. Maybe it’s to prevent fires when a transformer goes awol. But in reality it is getting tripped quite frequently and results in an hour to two hour outage, until the utility deems you deserve to be reconnected. It’s not at the meter, it’s hanging high on the pole, in plain sight.
Newssalini now wants to get rid of our propane generators.
And we saw Enron and how they manipulated the rolling blackouts.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/enron-caused-california-blackouts-traders-say
Love them like 3rd world countries like Norklandia, South Africa, et al?
and what are candles made of?
I’m not certain to what you’re referring to, but every distribution transformer should be protected by a fused cutout.
Wedge connector, srittup, hot line clamp, with a lead to the top of the cutout, paralleled with a lead to a lightning arrester.
The Left plans to turn the world into North Korea ?
I was thinking more of that scene in “Skin Deep”.
I’ll try to get a photo in the next day or two. Not at the site.
Breakers are a good idea...if they’re as reliable as the fuses still in use here.
Problem is that squirrels tend to cause the fuses to blow.
Same result (”hour to two hour outage”).
Invest in lineman climbing spikes; you might need them.
https://www.jharlen.com/p-10068-klein-hydra-cool-pole-climbing-system-221486.aspx
I know who I want on my wagon team.....You!
I’m an EE and have been designing the electrical distribution system for over a decade.
I better know something by now. :)
Notices that too, here in Panama City. Every time a storm blows through the electricity goes out, and the power company takes a few hours to reset the line breakers.
I’ve got a few generator companies comping today and tomorrow out to provide quotes. Putting in a 1800rpm diesel 30kw system. The electricity system here is far too unreliable. We also rely on it for sewer lift pumps, so having power out for 8 hours is not acceptable.
Telling people to get climbing hooks is terrible advice.
Do you think they will sound the pole for integrity?
Do they have a V Tech for alarm of hot primary and secondary?
Do they know what a line cutout v transformer cutout is?
Lockout tags?
They could kill themselves or a lineman down circuit.
I suspect within 20 years we will have liberals in brown uniforms roaming the streets, calling the thought police on anyone they believe might be out of compliance. And the liberals call us the Nazis......
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