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WHEN THE WIND DOESN’T BLOW
Powerline ^ | January 9,2022 | JOHN HINDERAKER

Posted on 01/09/2022 6:52:25 PM PST by Hojczyk

The basic point here is that wind energy shows up only sporadically and unpredictably, and tends to disappear when it is needed the most. The worst time for a blackout is when the mercury is at -20, as it was yesterday where I live. Note where electricity was actually coming from in the chart above: coal, the dark brown line, was the principal source, while natural gas, the light brown line, is only slightly behind. These are the sources that liberals want to do away with. Wind was flighty; sometimes it worked, but often it didn’t. Is that how you want your light switches to operate? And if you can find solar energy on this chart, a technology in which many billions of dollars have been invested, your eyes are sharper than mine.

On energy, we are in a race against time. We need to inform voters before the lavishly-funded “green” energy lobby destroys our electrical grid and our economy, at great profit to them but at ruinous loss to the rest of us.

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KEYWORDS: bloggers; carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; ecowackos; fakescience; powerlineblog

1 posted on 01/09/2022 6:52:25 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Green Energy, powered by unicorn farts.

Our enemies are behind all this, and have slowly destroyed the country.


2 posted on 01/09/2022 6:57:51 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Too tough to pick out the colors....


3 posted on 01/09/2022 6:58:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (🍊 Is this <--- going to get me in trouble?)
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To: Hojczyk

The push for “renewable energy” is from the same people who are bringing you “The Great Reset.”

They just want you dead, and they would appreciate your cooperation in bringing it about.


4 posted on 01/09/2022 6:59:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Hojczyk

Better real time link;

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/real-time—market-data/real-time-displays/


5 posted on 01/09/2022 7:02:19 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Hojczyk

I say do it. I’ve been going back and forth with a clown about EVs and how amazing they are.

Just like this covid crap, I’ve grown entirely to weary liberals and Do-Gooders that know it all telling me how to live my life.

California and its Brown Outs. The rich liberals suing to keep their precious ocean views off Nantucket.

All a scam. All lining pockets of the politicians, their investments, using the power of government to make them and their donors rich.


6 posted on 01/09/2022 7:20:45 PM PST by qaz123
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And their minions are the same ones doing their level best, pushing EVs.

Everything is.....10yrs from now EVs will do this, that and the other thing.

I’m curious to know when one of the media outlets gets with the right people and they show how easy it is to take over a car by hacking into the computer. The ones that don’t have semi-autonomous driving, a hacker can mess with it. Ones that have semi-autonomous driving, they can drive you off the road.

All done through the bluetooth on the tire sensors.


7 posted on 01/09/2022 7:23:47 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Hojczyk

On the northern prairie, the wind only fails to blow when it’s deadly cold outside. At our old family homestead, the wind fails to blow perhaps 15 days per year, but that is in the dead of winter, when the daily HIGH is -25.


8 posted on 01/09/2022 7:32:45 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Hojczyk

Is that near to where the sun don’t shine?


9 posted on 01/09/2022 7:33:49 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why he would)
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To: Hojczyk

“But the wind won’t blow
You really shouldn’t go
It only goes to show
That you will be mine
By taking our time”


10 posted on 01/09/2022 7:39:04 PM PST by moovova
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To: Hojczyk

For those who have problems with coal and natural gas (I don’t), they need to get over their paranoia about nukes - cause wind and solar ain’t gonna cut it.


11 posted on 01/09/2022 8:05:21 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Hojczyk

Interesting graph. The nukes are running flat out 24/7 the whole time period. Coal and gas are taking the swings pretty much in concert. When you get to the 6th and wind takes a sh!t the gas generation increases significantly. Probably due to simple cycle CT’s coming on line. Also note a small increase in oil fired stuff. Once again probably simple cycle CT’s that don’t have dual fuel capability and run on oil only.


12 posted on 01/09/2022 8:28:12 PM PST by technically right
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To: Hojczyk

Wind and solar wouldn’t even exist if the bought and paid for politicians and beaurocrats weren’t subsidizing with the taxpayers money.


13 posted on 01/09/2022 9:00:43 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: qaz123

“I’ve been going back and forth with a clown about EVs and how amazing they are.”

On FR??

There are some strange infiltrators here these days. The oversized electric golf kart boyz are just as zealous as their leftist fellow travelers.


14 posted on 01/09/2022 9:15:23 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Hojczyk

the wind is always blowing in joe’s and eric’s houses


15 posted on 01/09/2022 9:24:56 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Hojczyk

Rd later.


16 posted on 01/10/2022 3:17:04 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: dynoman

Thanks; excellent link.


17 posted on 01/10/2022 5:44:59 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Don W; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin

Nice for photographs of working windmills, but those high prairies are less than 20% of the country, and less than 5% of the people. Local windmill networks cannot power the entire grid.
Sending large amounts of energy more 600-800 miles causes 30% - 40% plus power losses.


18 posted on 01/10/2022 7:10:10 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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