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'Daddy, where does electricity come from?'
Americanthinker.com ^ | 7/15/2021 | Mark C Ross

Posted on 07/15/2021 7:55:37 AM PDT by rktman

"Just look out the window. See those wires? That's where electricity comes from."

"But how does it get into the wires?"

"At the other end of the wires, there's sort of a factory that has machines that make electricity. The machines are driven by steam turbines. The steam is made by burning natural gas or coal and sometimes the heat from small atomic bombs."

"Oh! I get it."

Ironically, as carbon-based energy is being hysterically blamed for the impending destruction of the Earth, schemes to put much more demand on the electrical grid abound. Meanwhile, last December, the CEO of Toyota Motors publicly claimed that there is not nearly enough electrical generation capacity available to significantly increase the number of all-electric automobiles:

"Progressive" communities such as Berkeley, CA have gone so far as to outlaw all new natural gas connections. Fortunately for the world, there's not a lot of new construction going on in Berkeley (go figure). But imagine the use of electricity to cook, heat water, and maintain comfort in the winter...rather than the much more efficient natural gas. Electricity is mostly made from natural gas, and it tends to lose some of its oomph as it travels through wires...whereas gas loses nothing as it travels through its pipe.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: climageddon; gangreen; greennudeeel
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Saving muvver erf is hard. IIRC elon musk also commented that there isn't enough available for all the proposed EV's headed our way. On a recent drive from Reno to Elko and back, I didn't seen any charging stations on I-80 for that stretch. Wasn't really looking for them and, we didn't see any signs indicating where one could obtain a can of electrons should one run out of them short of town.
1 posted on 07/15/2021 7:55:37 AM PDT by rktman
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I have always thought that part of a child’s education should include field trips to a power plant, a water treatment plant, a sewage plant, and a farm.
I know when I in elementary school we were taken to a water treatment plant.
Kids to learn that civilization runs on a remarkably narrow margin and that the things that sustain it are not magic, but hard work.


2 posted on 07/15/2021 8:00:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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Some rock group is going to have a huge hit with the song,

Back To The Caves


3 posted on 07/15/2021 8:00:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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The morons pushing this BS would do well to read up and understand “The Conservation of Energy”; The First Law of Thermodynamics.
Oh...wait. It was a bunch of nasty old white guys that came up with that stuff so it must be false and for sure, “racist”. /s


4 posted on 07/15/2021 8:01:35 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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Logic doesn’t matter to progressives. They just follow the latest trend like lemmings.


5 posted on 07/15/2021 8:02:03 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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From unicorns, of course!!!

6 posted on 07/15/2021 8:02:34 AM PDT by fishtank
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Dunno ‘bout other electric cars, but a Tesla has a database of charging stations and will help the driver plan a route that includes the charging stations.


7 posted on 07/15/2021 8:02:52 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: blueunicorn6

“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU


8 posted on 07/15/2021 8:02:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Proggy Dad: “Why, son - it just magically squirts of wall sockets.”


9 posted on 07/15/2021 8:03:49 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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You are 45 Years too late..................

10 posted on 07/15/2021 8:03:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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11 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:01 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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12 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I have always wondered, with all the technical advancement we have made over the years, why no one has come up with a way to harness lightning.


13 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:30 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Nateman

9 seconds!


14 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Only as long as their recording is done with no/zero petro based products. Hand carved guitars and cat gut strings and djimbes for percussion. PA systems? Pfftttt! NOT allowed. Seems like too many people have ZERO clue. Then again, I sorta like the dung fire smoke drifting past the veranda of my mud hut..............


15 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Little Ray

And that is always the most efficient route to your destination....NOT.


16 posted on 07/15/2021 8:04:36 AM PDT by Herodes
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“..I have always thought that part of a child’s education should include field trips to a power plant, a water treatment plant, a sewage plant, and a farm....”

That’d be “racist”!!! CRT says so. Besides, it would take time from sex ed and learning how to put a codom on a banana. /s


17 posted on 07/15/2021 8:06:04 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: fishtank

Everything comes from unicorns!


18 posted on 07/15/2021 8:06:34 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Little Ray

>civilization runs on a remarkably narrow margin and that the things that sustain it are not magic, but hard work.

Worth saying again.

The Green extremists are going to take us back many decades in living standards if their policies are enacted.


19 posted on 07/15/2021 8:07:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

I would have been quicker but most images were pure data and not a link!


20 posted on 07/15/2021 8:07:13 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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