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Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming
Jo Nova ^ | September 2, 2023 | Jo Nova

Posted on 09/04/2023 11:19:39 AM PDT by george76

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To: marktwain

So has Texas, California, and other states.


21 posted on 09/04/2023 1:41:25 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Thanks. It seems this one is still relevant thanks to all the evil people in the world.


22 posted on 09/04/2023 1:42:46 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: george76

I guess with the new Voice referendum coming up, they are going to make everyone step back a few centuries.


23 posted on 09/04/2023 1:56:40 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: george76

because the crazy government has destroyed the power grid


24 posted on 09/04/2023 2:10:06 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: george76

I thought they bought those big batteries to store all that green energy to even out and save the grid.


25 posted on 09/04/2023 2:24:31 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: george76
Unregulated crypto mining will break the grid.

Living in NE Pennsylvania there are regular occurrences of power surges and lights flickering now for several years. No explanation is provided - not by the power company, not by our town council, and not by our state representatives. There’s one crypto plant nearby, and perhaps others we haven’t been told about.

The plant close by wants to burn tires for their energy needs. Except many are saying that they’ve already been burning tires for energy. This has all been ongoing for at least a couple of years - with little to nothing being shared with the public.

It’s the usual sh**sh**. Corporations, enabled by politicians and local governments, erode the public trust, and don’t even feel guilty about it. They laugh all the way to the bank.

And then there’s the $30 million studio that a film company want to build - in a depressed coal town - to make kiddie porn movies.

It couldn’t get much better.

26 posted on 09/04/2023 2:59:33 PM PDT by yelostar (Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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To: george76

Green morons running things there too?


27 posted on 09/04/2023 3:56:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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28 posted on 09/04/2023 3:58:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: george76
"...the 175 page AEMO report goes right off the scale..."

Wait until they see the EMHO report.

I hate it when articles don't break out acronyms and abbreviations.

Sorry, I worked too many night shifts.

29 posted on 09/04/2023 4:08:25 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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"...with the partial exception being the US, which has the First Amendment..."

Fist Amendment? They're going to be wishing they had our Second Amendment before much longer.

30 posted on 09/04/2023 4:14:44 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: yelostar
Unregulated crypto mining will break the grid.

Excuse me, but singling out crypto from all the other power drains of our times, such as EVs, computer processing and data storage in general, digitized telecommunications, social media protected in hardened data centers, plus intelligence agencies storing the metadata from all over the world is laughable.

31 posted on 09/04/2023 5:11:59 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: george76

The days of 24/7 power are quickly ending. At that point it’s every man for himself as blackouts roll through on a regular basis, like it or not.


32 posted on 09/04/2023 6:47:42 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: higgmeister
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/climate/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-electricity.html

Crypto mining strains the electrical grid, and increases power costs for local residential consumers.

In Texas…

….data showed that the seven companies alone had set up to tap as much as 1,045 megawatts of power, or enough electricity to power all the residences in a city the size of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city with 2.3 million residents. The companies also said that they plan to expand their capacity at an eye-popping rate.

Overall, the biggest seven cryptomining companies expected to increase their total mining capacity by at least 2,399 megawatts in the coming years, an increase of nearly 230 percent from current levels, and enough energy to power 1.9 million residences.

and..

Research has shown that a surge in crypto mining is also significantly raising energy costs for local residents and small businesses, and has added to the strain on the power grid in states like Texas

A lot of the articles stress the environmental aspects of mining, so this particular issue happens to be on the radar of Democrats and the green agenda. Nevertheless it's a serious issue, especially since China banned the practice in 2021. The U.S. is now responsible for about 38% of worldwide Bitcoin mining, and the energy consumption needed is mind-boggling.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html (April 2023)

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

The computers in these buildings in Kearney, Neb., use about as much electricity as the 73,000 homes around them.

An operation in Dalton, Ga., is using nearly as much power as the surrounding 97,000 households.

And Riot Platforms’ mine in Rockdale, Texas, uses about the same amount of electricity as the nearest 300,000 homes, making it the most power-intensive Bitcoin mining operation in America.

Riot’s operation is less than a mile away from the Bitdeer mine. Combined, they use more power than all of the households within a 40-mile radius.

Each of the 34 operations The Times identified uses at least 30,000 times as much power as the average U.S. home.

Altogether, they consume more than 3,900 megawatts of electricity.

That is nearly the same amount of electricity as the three million households that surround them.

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All the things you mentioned as high consumers of electricity are existing parts of the U.S. infrastructure, industry and commerce and have been - with the exception of EV's - for a sustained period of time. Crypto mining is an entirely new game, with no rules and no oversight.

It's a 300lb drunk that crashes the party, drinks all the booze - expecting you to go out and buy more - all the while sucking the air out of the room, and telling everyone how unfair life is.

33 posted on 09/04/2023 8:30:01 PM PDT by yelostar (Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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A typical EV would require about 3,857 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity. For 26.4 million EVs, that’s over 101 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in a year or about 2.5% of what the U.S. grid produced in 2020. Although it’s a small percentage, it’s much more than what we’re currently asking of the electrical grid.Apr 17, 2023


34 posted on 09/04/2023 9:09:22 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: george76

when you deliberately avoid replacing and repairing allows you control


35 posted on 09/05/2023 2:22:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: joma89

“Work to become less dependent on the grid, folks. Blackouts are coming to the US too!”

Most of the guys in our families understand this. Our great wives, and I mean that, are often slow to come on board.


36 posted on 09/05/2023 1:35:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just crystallized Trump’s caympaign with a copyright-free image winning him nomination!)agee)
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