Posted on 03/07/2011 11:10:33 AM PST by La Lydia
Isn't it nice how you just flip a switch and the lights come on, and you can sit down to work at your computer whenever you need to? Enjoy these conveniences while you can, because reliable electricity is among the privileges the moonbat ruling class plans to revoke:
Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country's grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won't be available when the wind doesn't blow, "The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030," he told BBC's Radio 4. "We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It's going to be much smarter than that."
This gives a clue as to what the word smart means in the context of green energy. Holliday continues:
"We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply."
That is, make sure to get your work done and your TV watching in during wind storms. When the winds are calm, you can sit in the dark, shivering and thinking pure thoughts about the polar bears.
Why would Britain's rulers want to deprive their subjects of electricity? It's all about power in more ways than one:
Under the so-called "smart grid" that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential [according to bureaucrats] purposes.
No one dumb enough to believe that replacing efficient energy sources with whimsical windmills will improve the weather will have climbed very high in the power structure. The purpose of "green energy" is the same as the purpose of literally all liberal initiatives: increasing government control.
Freaking liberals are idiots worldwide.
I call this the Don Quixote power grid.
“What our Overlords have planned for us. Of course, they will still have reliable energy and it will be cheap, because WE will be paying for THEM to have it, while we sit in the dark.”
How can the CEO of an energy supply company not understand the law of supply and demand? The answer to the problem of unreliable suppy is to replace it with a reliable one. Instead they have done the opposite. Not only that, they are convinced we are now better off. No doubt this fool went to an elite university where he received all A’s for being easily and properly indoctrinated.
In other words, become a third world nation.
HANG ‘EM HERE—HANG ‘EM NOW
***I call this the Don Quixote power grid.***
LOL!
To paraphrase: “I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of the Power Grid.
My destiny calls and I go,
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow.”
Or don’t blow.
They know we won’t be better off. It’s been well established that the free market is the best way to improve the quality of life in all respects, including environmental impacts.
But they want to reduce thepopulation of the earth and create slaves to serve their whims and controlling access to food and energy are the best ways to do that.
I really do think that is what Obama wants us to become. He can’t do anything to raise up the Third World, so he is going to reduce us to their level, and CONGRESS IS MAKING IT ALL POSSIBLE.
“They know we won’t be better off. It’s been well established that the free market is the best way to improve the quality of life in all respects, including environmental impacts.”
I’m sure he believes he is saving us from global warming and that we should be sooo grateful.
Actually, I’ve lived where the grid was so unreliable that it was reliable. Since they had daily brown-outs, they had all adjusted for it. Every office building, every shopping center, every apartment complex, even private homes had diesel generator sets on automatic transfer switches which would start up bumplessly. The only way you knew there was a brown-out, for the most part, was if you saw the little cap on the exhaust pipe lift, you knew the diesel was running. You’d notice the traffic snarl outside because the traffic lights were all out. Otherwise, most businesses had long ago adjusted to make themselves independent of the grid.
A crummy power grid is still new to us, and we haven’t adjusted yet. But its obviously coming.
Of course our govt will also regulate the ownership and use of private generator sets.
I will note that this is out of the U.K., whereas the Smart Grid development in the US is a very different beast.
:) THat only works IF you have reliable diesel tho. I strongly suspect when they say ‘unreliable power’ they probably mean all sources eventually.
I’d say rolling blackouts are a small price to pay for feeling “green”.
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And it didn't apply to poor people who didn't have their own diesel generator backup systems. They just did without.
The government turned off the lights.
Well, yes. When I lived in Mexico we all always had emergency generators set up to kick in when the power went off. One was scarcely aware of it. (We also had propane for the stove and hot water delivered in cylinders.) And since then, I have always thought of that as one of the penalties paid to live in a developing country, not something that would ever be brought about in the United States. The Mexicans are trying to overcome it, and “we,” our elected representatives, are trying to impose it on us. This is ALL THE GOVERNMENT’S DOING, AND WE HAVE NO ONE BUT CONGRESS, AND THE WHITE HOUSE, TO BLAME.
A combination of wind and solar power would be a better idea, as they are generally mutually exclusive. Anyone who has played SimCity 2000 knows that. As for nighttime, power could be stored during the day for later use.
“Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential [according to bureaucrats] purposes.” This is just plain creepy.
That said, conserving electricity is definitely a good idea if you’re feeling the pinch of the Great Recession, as most of us are. For the sake of my pocketbook, if nothing else, I don’t turn on lights when there is perfectly good sunlight outside. I don’t buy electronics I don’t need. Saving electricity isn’t just for liberal environmentalists.
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