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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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.
Some rock group is going to have a huge hit with the song,
Back To The Caves
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
Logic doesn’t matter to progressives. They just follow the latest trend like lemmings.
From unicorns, of course!!!
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.
“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU
Proggy Dad: “Why, son - it just magically squirts of wall sockets.”
You are 45 Years too late..................
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.
9 seconds!
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..............
And that is always the most efficient route to your destination....NOT.
“..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
Everything comes from unicorns!
>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.
I would have been quicker but most images were pure data and not a link!
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