Posted on 07/21/2023 5:03:02 PM PDT by dynachrome
What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?
That is in many ways a terrible qBut absent major breakthroughs in carbon-capture technology, we’ll eventually need to shutter most if not all of those gas plants to avoid disastrous temperature jumps. Scientists say we need to cut carbon pollution nearly in half by 2030.
Could we get started ditching gas sooner — and save some money — by accepting a few more blackouts for the next few years?
It’s a heretical question in power-grid circles. When I posed it to John Moura — director of reliability assessment and performance analysis at the North American Electric Reliability Corp. — he only half-jokingly described it as “a dagger to the heart.”uestion, for reasons I’ll discuss shortly.
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That was my first thought, also.
IT was the newsrooms that gave us Gretta Thunberg, Klaus Schwab, and John Kerry as the national climate controlled celebrities, as well as all this recent misinformation.
When are we gunna learn that it is the news rooms that generate all this illogical crap ?
I will venture that Sammy Roth has never worked in a hospital, dairy or any other kind of food processing facility where having reliable electricity available is the difference between life and death.
There is NO climate “crisis”. it is a lie invented from whole cloth.
I like your map. Our coastal New Jersey county and the adjoining one to our south get to keep the lights on!
No. They should move to a location where sanity rules.
Most areas already have smart electric meters. Just selectively turn off the bunny huggers meters for long periods of time as an experiment and charge them exponentially higher rates.
They need to put their money where their mouth is.
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