Posted on 12/28/2022 6:11:52 AM PST by Bon of Babble
On Friday, multiple U.S. power companies issued an emergency request to customers to turn down their thermostats due to extreme cold and wind straining the power grid
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Anyone here still think we live in a First World country?
With all the wind lately across the country is seems they should be begging customers to use excess power./S
Gas shortage my ass
We’re toast. Not literal toast. 60-62 degree toast. Thanks politicians.
The combination of liberals and demographics will make us like Brazil in a couple generations or so.
Slavery + 19th Amendment + Feminism = Demise of the US
How many years have we lived without this type of bullchit? Since Biden was installed, we have gone to commie style life.
My favorite part about wind power is they must be stopped when “too windy”.
Genius...
Unfortunately, the Dim created gas shortage = power shortage after the Dims made a lot of power companies shut down coal companies and replace them with either unreliable “green” energy sources or natural gas fueled power plants.
I now fuel the fireplace in my home wth Skittles and fattened unicorns.
When there is wind in some areas of California, the power is shut off completely b/c of fire danger from power lines.
The power companies get to say what constitutes too much wind.
Don’t charge your EV. 🤣
Big wind
and Big sun
when winter comes
can’t get it done
One problem with evs is that they deplete their charge while shut off and parked. If they’re not plugged in, the battery continues to fade. More so in cold weather.
Jimmy Carter: Wear a sweater........................
Bring back the 55mph limit. “It’s a law we can live with”
Running out of electricty, so what do the dems do? Propose converting everything to electric. Brilliant! /s
Not this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
Is this the same grid that’s going to power virtually every vehicle in a decade or so?
And folks wonder why STEM faculty call their F students future politicians, journalists, and climate researchers.
Honey, where did I leave my sweater vest?
This is from my experience as an owner of both an EV car and an ICE pickup who watched and tested things recently when we had two solid days in Alabama of 11℉ and ℉ weather. The EV sat over 24 hours outside without being driven and the SOC (strength of charge) dropped 2% from 73% to 71%. So yeah, the cold weather made it drop some and would be significant if I was to leave it at an airport parking lot for a month while on a Christmas trip (assuming I lived up north and the EV experienced that kind of weather for a solid month). But not much for daily use IMHO, especially in my neck of the woods where those kind of temperatures are rare.
The other thing is performance. My trip home I got the same 3.4 miles/kWh that I usually get (this reading is based on power pulled directly from the battery, which is a lower throughput if we're counting AC power pulled from my wall and then a 5% conversion loss when converting from AC to DC as the power is stored into the EV's battery).
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