Posted on 06/24/2023 4:47:57 PM PDT by rktman
No aspect of the vaunted “energy transition” screams out the word “fantasy” quite so starkly as projections that the U.S. will have to install 47,000 miles of new high-capacity transmission lines by 2035.
That’s the assessment not by renewable energy skeptics, but by the enthusiastic promoters of renewables at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
As part of an assessment published in early March, the DOE stated that much new transmission will be required, assuming moderate load and massive expansion of “green” energy “in line with the future power sector enabled by all currently enacted laws.”
In other words, this is the new capacity that will be required to account for demand growth caused by plans by the Biden administration and liberal state governments to electrify all new buildings, eliminate gas stoves and furnaces, convert coal and natural gas plants to wind and solar, and put millions of new electric vehicles on the road which must be charged regularly.
The challenges faced by developers of a single new transmission line designed to move electricity generated by Wyoming wind projects 732 miles west to demand markets in California help illustrate just how ridiculous this 47,000-mile ambition really is.
The TransWest Transmission Project, made a major priority by the Biden administration, finally kicked off construction this past week, but only after a struggle to obtain rights-of-way, funding and the necessary local, state and federal permits consumed 18 long years.
That number is not a typo. And get this: It is going to take an additional 4 years — until 2027, to build just the first phase of the multi-phase system and place it into service.
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Someday, probably not too long from now, when these buffoons have screwed everything up and we are sitting in the dark freezing our collective asses of or sweating buckets and all stink like cows, we will spend an equal or greater amount to try to put the pieces back together.
By then the chicoms and the indians and anybody else smart enough to let us cut our own throats will be laughing their asses off in the lap of relative luxury.
We are at immediate risk of North Korea, China, Russia or others blasting our power grid with an EMP attack or other method. Balloons from China, a Russian or Chinese satelite beam or terrorist bombs could cause a chain reaaction burnout of large electrical transformers and power plants that would leave us helpless (no heat in winter, no internet, no phones, no power for sewers to handle waste disposal, and no chargers for Tesla cars.
Because we have not forced the power companies to harden the lines and insisted on their putting lines underground.
Copper lines?
Or unobtanium would work I suppose. 😂👍
Southwest power and their contractor took over a year to rebuild a relatively small transmission line across my back pasture. I’m still cleaning up ruts and trying to get some kind of damage payments. They started the work in December of 2020.
The massive transmission line they tried to slip in south of me 7 or 8 years ago went down in flames to public protest and fears of EMF health problems. It was to move electricity from the Texas panhandle somewhere back east or to TVA.
I’d go along with running a new high line into the DC Beltway-—connected to an electric chair with which to educate/eradicate these dim bulbs.
Thanks. I don’t do high power transmission lines so some of my ignorance has been lifted.
Send in your pennies, kids. Uncle Sam needs copper.
And if champions of “renewables” in Brandon’s administration had their way, I predict three things happening by 2035:
• ICEs will be outlawed/unavailable or limited to use by the armed forces, agencies of the Federal government, and the wealthy/well-connected.
• EVs will be out of reach to most of the public, too.
• Most people will be bound to their “Fifteen-Minute City” with only EV public transport (what I call “torch-buses”), bicycles, or their feet to get around on.
And all the logistics and supplies will magically appear like they have for the California bullet train.
Yeah, I was also thinking 15 minute cities are in the offing.
EIGHTEEN YEARS to get the PERMITS for one 750 mile line from Montana to CA!
The transmission lines should be buried so that they won’t be damaged by ice storms, hurricanes, etc. Of course, it’s going to take a whole lot of diesel powered machinery to mine the copper and bury all those transmission lines.
The biggest problem that we face is that the populous has been dumbed down so much that they actually fall for this crap.
Jennifer GrandBlonde, the Bimbo of Energy, approves this plan.
in Australia, the transmission lines will be almost as long, but for just 26 million population!
meanwhile, we send coal and gas to China/Asia etc.
Pennies are now zinc with the thinnest possible whisper of copper coating.
Yeah, I know. A little less than 20% of pennies in circulation are still copper., though.
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