Posted on 08/10/2023 5:32:28 PM PDT by CFW
*Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for power plant emissions could spur blackouts in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) power grid region and cost stakeholders nearly $250 billion in the coming decades, according to comments filed in response to the rule by the Center of the American Experiment (CAE).
*The average annual cost to stakeholders of building enough capacity to stave off the blackouts CAE projects in the MISO region is greater than the average annual benefit the EPA estimates its proposals will bring for the entire country by 2055, according to CAE’s analysis.
*“This is the regulatory equivalent of studying the structural integrity of the top floor of a 100-story building without doing so for the preceding 99 floors,” Isaac Orr, policy fellow for the CAE and coauthor of CAE’s comments, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating carbon dioxide emissions for power plants would lead to blackouts in a large slice of the Midwest and impose costs of nearly $250 billion, according to new analysis by the Center of the American Experiment (CAE).
The EPA’s proposed regulations would require fossil fuel-fired power plants to adopt developing technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and hydrogen blending, in order to significantly bring down their greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. CAE filed comments this week in response to the EPA’s proposals, highlighting in its analysis that the EPA has overestimated the efficacy of wind and solar while exposing the 45 million people living in the area served by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) power grid to elevated blackout risks.
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Why are they so intent on stopping CO2. The elevated levels in the atmosphere are responsible for about 10 percent of the recent increases in agricultural output.
The test run was in Texas when, during a winter storm, the EPA required all the power plants that operated over a certain capacity to charge so much per hour that the utilities were forced into rolling blackouts. Test run complete.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature!
That’s not a bug, that’s your dinner!
I bet there are some very wealthy people or Deep Staters where this won’t be a problem. /s
The beatings will continue until the moral improves.
Of course. Communists are always better than RINOs, don’tcha know!
Sometimes you’re the windshield, and sometimes you’re the bug.
I knew it was coming. It is already happening here now and then. They are shutting off rural areas to prioritize the cities. Rural folks better learn how to minimalize, set up their own small system for the bare necessities, and learn to live without some modern luxuries.
There ain’t no stopping this reality. So the question is not “if”, the question is “when”.
And it is coming soon. Options are move to the city, or learn to live without the grid.
Strangely enough, I’ve been watching the Hunger Games movies on Youtube. It seems that Panem is about to happen.
Does anybody really think that the DC area is going to get rolling blackouts, hmmmmm?
Please, oh please, let those with the knowledge make sure that we ALL have names/addresses/schedules of each and every EPA member so that when this happens we can thank them in an appropriate manner.
At some point the climate Nazis and their government enforcers will have to be dealt with, and harshly so they won’t ever forget!
Well more than candles in the winter here in northern Michigan.
This could be a disaster for special homes with people on oxygen, and bakeries, etc.
When we have a storm here my husband takes generators to locations of both types near us.
I think these people need to go away.
Blackouts are a feature, not a flaw.
Destruction of the country is the purpose.
Why do you think they want you totally dependent on electricity?
“Does anybody really think that the DC area is going to get rolling blackouts, hmmmmm?”
Of course not...
Maybe DC could suffer some non-rolling blackouts...wink, wink, nod, nod.
Q: What did Democrats use for light before candles?
A: Electricity.
Correct!
Q: What did Democrats use for light before candles?
A: Electricity.
I suspect that is were we are heading again. Maybe all the way back to whale oil for lamps. Of course, whales are protected so we will have to have a black market for that as well just about everything else.
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