VIRTUE SIGNALLING CAN BE DANGEROUS
Imagine Being Trapped Overnight In An EV Snowed In On A Remote Stretch Of Interstate As Many Hundreds Were Back In Early January.
Posted on 04/20/2022 2:04:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
Previews of what will happen when green energy fails are popping up all over the world. It’s not a pretty picture of the future.
Lessons from California, Texas, Europe, and Australia show that if the “Keep it in the ground” movement succeeds in stopping the use of fossil fuels, the world is worse off.
In 2021, I experienced firsthand the dangers of over reliance on wind and solar energy. Although there was plenty of blame to go around when the Texas power supply failed across much of the state during a bout of extreme cold weather that winter, the replacement of reliable coal-fueled power plants with industrial wind facilities bore the lion’s share of the blame. Driven almost entirely by politics, not market demand, wind and solar power now account for approximately 28 percent of Texas’ electric power supply.
Data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas showed that five days before the first snowflake fell, wind and solar provided 58 percent of the state’s electric power. Then, clouds formed, temperatures dropped, and winds temporarily stalled, resulting in more than half the wind and solar power going offline in three days, never to return during the storm. The problems got even worse when the wind turbines froze and snow and ice covered solar panels.The shortfall of wind power at a critical moment largely doomed the grid.
As California’s power grid has grown ever “greener,” Californians have had to get used to rolling blackouts and brownouts each summer. With wind and solar replacing coal, natural gas, and nuclear on the grid, and electricity replacing natural gas for cooking, heating, and heating water, the system has become unreliable.
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It is a war.
Treat it as such.
When Dims are done your power will be as unpredictable as it is in 3rd world countries. And you will be happy.
Yeah we had that in N. Texas during the 2021 freeze when the wind power generators froze and the solar panels got covered in ice. We went about 3 day without power. Good thing we had a standby generator.
You will eat crunchy bugs.
And you will be happy.
But the wind farms didn't and wind farms further north have those. Also the actual problem with the renewables is there was no wind at the peak of the cold weather. There was wind as the cold came in, but wind farms can't store power even if they aren't frozen. Solar can't be stored either. So that leaves gas and the gas lines froze:
According to the report, the primary cause of the outages was frozen equipment and failures at power plants across the state. The secondary cause was frozen equipment and failures at natural gas wellheads and processing facilities, which led to a breakdown of the gas supply chain. Most of that equipment failed despite being rated to handle the temperatures, according to the report.
Those pesky clouds.
So how are we to recharge those batteries in the electric cars that the administration is pushing?
VIRTUE SIGNALLING CAN BE DANGEROUS
Imagine Being Trapped Overnight In An EV Snowed In On A Remote Stretch Of Interstate As Many Hundreds Were Back In Early January.
Imagine being stranded for days in an EV in summertime Florida after a hurricane evacuation.
The dirty little secret is that “imaginary” energy sources (wind, solar) are only viable if you have 80% of their capacity “mirrored” with conventional power plants, ready to pick up their slack WHEN (not if) when the wind stops blowing or the sun goes behind a cloud. So you have to fossil fuel plants operating in a condition known as “spinning reserve,” ready to go online in an instant’s notice, WHEN the “renewables” can’t renew themselves.
So to make a grid stable that incorporates “renewable” sources, it necessarily has to be substantially more expensive (to build, maintain, and operate) than a 100% conventional system because you’re accepting going in that “green” energy isn’t capable of hauling the freight all of the time.
Either that or you’re willing to accept routine blackouts.
The simple truth is, this whole “renewable energy” scam is a great idea, if you fancy living like it’s 1875 again.
BINGO!
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