Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/11/2008 4:16:17 PM PST by Lorianne
Adding electricity from the wind and the sun could increase the frequency of blackouts and reduce the reliability of the nation’s electrical grid, an industry report says.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation says in a report scheduled for release Monday that unless appropriate measures are taken to improve transmission of electricity, rules reducing carbon dioxide emissions by utilities could impair the reliability of the power grid. The corporation is the industry body authorized by the federal government to enforce reliability rules for the interlocking system of electrical power generation and transmission.
Such carbon-reduction rules are already in place in 27 states and four Canadian provinces, and new ones could be mandated nationally in both countries. They may force changes in the utility industry, the group said, including the shutting down of coal plants that are located near load centers, and substituting power from wind turbines or solar plants in remote areas.
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The fiction: Carbon dioxide causes global warming.
The fact: global warming causes an increase in carbon dioxide.
An energy meltdown is coming. You need to start preparing in the next few years. The meltdown will probably have differential impact across the country. You should also have fire arms and plenty of ammo to deal with the looters.
This is the result the watermelons want. Destroy the electrical grid, destroy the economy, take over.
“appropriate measures are taken to improve transmission of electricity”
Boondoggle slushfund blah blah blah.
Environmentalists don't like powerlines.
Sure...and let’s triple residential electric rates in the process.
Out here in the West, hydroelectric power is not even allowed to be considered a “renewable resource” because if it is included in the equation, it shows exactly how outrageously expensive and inefficient these “alternatives” are.
Is this like saying we need to beef up the suspension on trucks that carry steel so they can transport helium balloons along with the steel? It’s probably more like saying we need to add stabilizing power generation structures (aka power plants) to accommodate the removal of power plants.
“Adding electricity from the wind and the sun could increase the frequency of blackouts and reduce the reliability of the nation’s electrical grid, an industry report says.”
Is this what we want? Liberals are morons.
It would be really cool to not have to use the power grid at all. And so if you want to generate your own power with sun, water, or wind, get off the grid and help yourself.
I want a back yard nuclear reactor.
It is all part of the Clowden-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis. The socialists are trying to nationalize the mortgage and banking industry by “rescuing” them from a crisis they were forced into by the leftists. Next will be the energy industry, the healthcare and insurance industries.
It’s interesting that the article never bothers to explain why these alternative energy sources could be harmful to the grid, aside from blaming some anti-carbon emission regulations. Then the rest of the article is spent telling us how wonderful these regulations are.
Not entirely out of the question, but I doubt the government would let you have one.
They’re harmful because they are not reliable sources of power production, and big electrical power grids don’t like sources of instability. A big front comes through, and your photovoltaics aren’t generating all of the sudden. The wind stops, and your wind farms aren’t producing. Your choices are A) get some more power running, quickly (probably fossil-fuel produced), B) deal with brownouts or even blackouts.
Texas had a near-blackout last winter due to winds stopping.
Loss of wind causes Texas power grid emergency
http://tinyurl.com/23lrxz
Is that the market that everybody’s (now out-of-date) hero, T. Bone Pickens, wants to corner?
We ought to go *full speed ahead* on these “mini-nuke power plants”. This looks like a good deal. We need more nuclear power here...
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/toshibas-home-n.html
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