Posted on 10/21/2021 5:50:22 AM PDT by karpov
The leaders of California and China have at least one thing in common: fear of blackouts. In late September, following widespread and economically debilitating losses of power, China’s vice premier Han Zheng ordered the country’s energy companies to ensure sufficient supplies before winter “at all costs” and added, ominously, that blackouts “won’t be tolerated.” A month earlier, California governor Gavin Newsom issued emergency orders to procure more natural gas-fired electrical capacity to avoid blackouts. And in a possible sign of more such moves to come, earlier in the summer, California’s electric grid operator “stole” electricity that Arizona utilities had purchased and that was in transit from Oregon.
In recent weeks, the European continent has also suffered blackouts, near-blackouts, and skyrocketing electricity prices triggered by a massive lull in nature’s windiness. Grid operators across Europe rushed to buy fuel and fire up old gas- and coal-fired plants. Europe petitioned Russia for more natural gas, and German coal plants ran out of fuel, causing a scramble (including in China) to get more (doubling global prices). Even long-forgotten oil-fired powerplants were pressed into emergency service on grids from Sweden to Asia.
The issue that’s now front and center is whether all these disruptions to electricity supply and price are, to use Silicon Valley language, a “feature” or a temporary “bug” of the new energy infrastructure favored by advocates of renewables: one dominated by power from the wind and sun. Proponents of this so-called energy transition admit that the road to a post-hydrocarbon world might be rough. But the solution, they say, is to accelerate construction of far more wind and solar machines.
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Californication big cities area a dead end!
Not to mention the windmill blades that still CANNOT be recycled. After over twenty years of research.
The Brandon wind generator and solar cell re-manufacturing facility
Elon : The fools. The mad fools.
President Jamoke Joe: What’s happened?
Elon : The doomsday scenario.
President Jamoke Joe: The doomsday scenario? What is that?
Musk: A condition that will destroy all human and animal life on earth.
... A cascading failure, all the batteries massively overloaded and inflamed poison lithium clouds in the wind.
The AZ nuclear plant is already sending power to CA.
HydrpPower may be picking up after this weekend.
Pineapple Expresses have a way of stress testing grids.
At least the wind turbine blades will get bird’s blood and feathers cleaned off of them.
One of the main reasons was insiders got the millions. Another is the cost would go up and the state would use the money to pay for state pensions.
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