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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There’s specific outdoor lighting in Hawaii to minimize light pollution.
Anthropogenic climate change is pure fraud. Only fools believe in it. Unfortunately God loves fools and made an awful lot of them.
“People are stupid. They will believe any lie as long as they want it to be true or are afraid it is true”. Terry Goodkind
“It is a lot easier to fool people than convince them they’ve been fooled.” Mark Twain
I understand that it would do no good. But it would send a message. Just think of it as the electricity grid version of 51 wetbacks arriving on Martha’s Vineyard.
No, but if everyone put their socks on the wrong feet that would help a little bit.
Yeah. Cool. Let’s emulate South Africa or Haiti! Our Global Overlords approve.
In the worldview of the Left....yes.
No. Next question.
You’re right, fighting climate change is a full time effort! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you have sex with a virgin, it cures you of AIDS.
Actually happened in SA.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/29/southafrica.aids
I get it, but we have to wonder if it would actually make any difference to these brainwashed masses? They will just insist the rural folks should suffer to give it all to them. And that is already happening now...
We had two four hour blackouts last week so the city could stay cool while we baked in the country. If they cut power regularly, it will not be in thew city.
Liberal Dem’s excluded from the blackout because it’d hurt their feelings and offend them.
The first thing that should be banned is printed newspapers, then the entire media industry should be mandated to use 100% renewable fossil free energy for all aspects of their business...
Here’s a workable map, red power, blue too bad.
+1000
It would be like The Purge. No Thank You.
Hollyweird and ‘news’ organizations would be exempt.
Unless your blackouts include industries and hospitals and other necessary services. And again, you'll be pushing industries overseas where there are less environmental controls and putting people at risk. Industries and hospitals and such will simply have backup generators that are probably less efficient that the power they were getting. So you might get a net increase in energy consumption from the blackouts.
I just bought 3 home batteries and charged them from home sockets. That's in case of blackouts I can keep refrigerators and freezers running. More and more people will be doing that so that they have energy during blackouts. And how much food are you going to destroy with your blackouts?
We need a more thought out approach than random or planned blackouts. We should build clean nuclear plants and provide people with the power they need. We can continue to make incremental changes, improving efficiencies wherever there is waste. But we need to prepare for the future and an ever larger population. And blackouts don't do this.
What are major sources and users of energy in the United States
"There are 5 energy consuming sectors
"The industrial sector [32% of all energy consumption, including electricity] includes facilities and equipment used for manufacturing, agriculture, mining, and construction.
"The transportation sector [29% of all energy consumption, including electricity] includes vehicles that transport people or goods, such as cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, trains, aircraft, boats, barges, and ships.
"The residential sector [20% of all energy consumption, including electricity] consists of homes and apartments.
"The commercial sector [18% of all energy consumption, including electricity] includes offices, malls, stores, schools, hospitals, hotels, warehouses, restaurants, and places of worship and public assembly.
"The electric power sector consumes primary energy to generate most of the electricity consumed by the other four sectors.
Weeeel, except for the TRUTH that climate change is a crock!
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