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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Permanent blackouts in DC would solve most problems. Joe Biden is busted for taking bro he’s but because everyone else is a pedophile there it’s all ignored. Look at Merrick Garlqmd and tell me he isn’t a kid sniffer.
I don't know. How about we shut down all power to all L.A. Times operations for a few years as a pilot program? If it slows 'climate change' in Los Angeles, we can spread it out from there.
“Common sense goes a long way in addressing problems.”
AMEN! :)
It’s summer, it’s hot.
Fire up the woodstoves and generators....
I have always wondered why they haven’t turned more lights off at night. And since I use a telescope, why there’s not more effort to be more effective in outdoor lighting, instead of shining up in the sky
Almighty God is who controls the climate.
GMTA. 🙂
Cut all fuel and electrical power to Urban Utopias.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Does it have to be only occasional?
If you support blackouts at all then you have not done the mental cause and effect that proves they will save absolutely nothing. In fact they will add to the overall problem. But the power companies like them, they sell MORE electricity over all and make more money.
Exactly, there is NO climate crisis! It’s just a scam invented by the lefties to con folks into supporting collectivism!
If they are commie libs, then I guess so.
That’s right! Climate change is just a con!
even if only small ones
Like starving and freezing in the dark?
Journalism majors make Business majors look smart…
Who are the snowflakes that these dying newspapers employ to write columns that conceive of such stupidity?
Nope.
In classic liberalism they were upset because more sun was reaching the planet due to the lack of pollution.
I remember El Rushbo said this is why they changed the game from globull warming to climate change....as climate change fits any and all scenarios.
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