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1 posted on 05/07/2025 9:03:12 AM PDT by Pontiac
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2 posted on 05/07/2025 9:04:41 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Green energy is bidenesque.


3 posted on 05/07/2025 9:06:18 AM PDT by allendale
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Interesting


4 posted on 05/07/2025 9:08:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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The inertia issue is well known among power engineers, and the situation described here was entirely predictable given the heavy penetration of “renewable’ energy into the grid.


5 posted on 05/07/2025 9:09:36 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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It’s hard to imagine since the Left hates coal, that back in the 80s their biggest issue was stopping Thatcher from shutting down the coal mines.


6 posted on 05/07/2025 9:11:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Well, did the blackout also add to their net zero goals?


7 posted on 05/07/2025 9:17:54 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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The UK and Ireland are island grids. They do have undersea power interconnectors to Europe but these are non-synchronous DC links and transmit no grid inertia. There’s little prospect that this will change.

From my college days I remember learning that DC was not good at long distance transmission.

Yet, Britain and Ireland are transmitting DC across the Channel.

8 posted on 05/07/2025 9:18:29 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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From my perspective, this is easy to understand. The generators that have huge rotating armatures with accompanying power plants that have huge rotating flywheels resist sudden draws on power with their inertia. It gives the speed governors (or whatever they are called in huge power plants) time to kick in and maintain power.

This simply does not exist in solar. Solar cannot accommodate a huge instantaneous demand. Wind probably can’t either


10 posted on 05/07/2025 9:30:31 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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I don’t get this.

Doesn’t solar have DC to AC converters that maintain a constant desired frequency? And why would one solar installation going down cause the rest of them to not keep producing electricity at the set frequency?


11 posted on 05/07/2025 9:33:54 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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bkmk


13 posted on 05/07/2025 9:36:34 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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Its coming. It is going to happen, as sure as God made little green apples, it is going to happen.

Maybe later to us than to them, but it is going to happen.

Insanity. They know the problem, yet they press forward.


19 posted on 05/07/2025 10:01:34 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Oopsie. There has to be a backup or standby for everything else to synchronize to, in order to bring them back online. That’s most likely a fossil fueled machine.


25 posted on 05/07/2025 10:39:59 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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Sometimes the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Especial if the Gates family is applying heavy duty Sun-Block.


26 posted on 05/07/2025 10:48:03 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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27 posted on 05/07/2025 10:51:17 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Screw Britain. They made their own bed, and can sleep in it. They never learned any lessons from two World Wars, not even after we saved their asses twice. They’re getting what their hand calls for. The British Empire “where the sun never sets” now wants to dim the sun on its own people. They have shit weather as it is. Must be they want to kill more of their people than fix the problems they already have.


30 posted on 05/07/2025 4:48:25 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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