Posted on 10/03/2025 11:00:24 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had carried out massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial facilities and on gas and energy infrastructure.
It said it had conducted the strikes using high-precision long-range weapons launched from the air, land and sea as well as drones.
Ukraine's energy ministry spoke earlier on Friday about the attack and top private energy provider DTEK said it had suspended operations at several gas facilities in the Poltava region.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
A matter of fact news report from the Rooters Sewer Service, the staff must be near suicide there.
Lately they’ve been hitting electric substations that power the rail network of eastern Ukraine (most of the trains are apparently electric). And then also fuel facilities supporting diesel trains as well. It makes me wonder if the bridges over the Dnieper are about to be destroyed; combined this could impair logistics for the battlefront pretty severely.
This is really sad
A strong case can be made that the Russians had been showing relative restraint in attacking critical infrastructure in hopes of a negotiated peace
It seems they are becoming more aggressive and are no longer just hitting targets like distribution nodes that are not major infrastructure but are instead hitting serious capital infrastructure that is going to be expensive and time consuming to rebuild
This war needs to come to an end
It seems Rooters has quit trying to Lie.
Sounds almost like Ukrainians are learning what it's like to live in California. LOL
While slightly off subject, Governor Newsom and State Of California authorities have been instrumental in burning down large areas of wild land and suburban housing in California.
Some of these fires included major electric power grid and distribution equipment.
That’s bad. And if I understand it correctly, the California power utility PG&E, after being sued years ago for allegedly causing fires, has been shutting off power (brownouts) when high winds might cause power lines to spark.
That’s correct, PG&E shuts off power in windstorms because they failed to properly clear trees and brush on powerline easements, and underground lines promptly when the had the money to do so.
You have to do your homework on so many things in life.
It is Not simply "Put 'em Up and Throw The Switch".
Solar installations that property owners own and can use as they see fit, are very expensive and have no tax credits or subsidies.
Not entirely true. Again, you most do your homework.
My project of solar/EV/energy improvements to home has saved me a cash flow of $8K since I started it 4 years ago. (Most of it has been in the past 3 years, after I upgraded my solar in the 2nd year and replaced my wife's old gas crossover with an EV crossover, as well as replaced two old gas appliances with high-efficiency electric ones.) But you must do your homework to make sure any of it is feasible for you. And even so, I suggest following my lead and experimenting with a small system for a year like I did to make sure the power production mimics your power consumption habits. After a year's worth of trying it in all seasons (which means all seasons of solar power, and also all seasons of your energy consumption habits), you'll have the info needed to know whether or not to upgrade and, if so, how much. You'll also know if it's worth doing other energy improvements to the home. (i.e. Hmmm....my inverter shows my furnace running an awful lot more than I expected late at night when we're keeping the doors closed ... maybe I should add insulation...)
I took out a fixed, low-interest loan to hire contractors to do all the work and buy the equipment. Instead of paying sky high energy costs I make the loan payment + small power bill. The energy and transportation portion of my budget is what it was in year 2019 (last year of Trump before covid distorted energy prices). Thus, I've avoided years of energy price inflation. As energy prices go up each year (on average) I'll avoid most of that inflation too (I pull only 20% of the power I need from the grid, so I'll experience only 1/5th of the inflation pain). All while the payments I make on the loan don't go up. In fact, the minimum payment goes down as the balance is paid down (though I pay a fixed payment anyway and pay extra on principal, as I maintain a flat budget for energy and transportation costs). What I paid in year 2019 for power + natural gas + gasoline + saving to a car savings account (for the next repair/car replacement) is what I pay now in loan payment + small power bill. (I use the loan to pay the car payments of the EV, then the tax credits to pay down on the loan. The solar tax credits are non-refundable, but carry-forward. So each year I got back from the IRS what my total tax liability was, but no more even though the solar tax credit was way more than my total tax liability.) Now that the EV will be paid off soon (4-year loan), and is still new enough to be under warranty, my budget will soon pay down the solar/energy loan a lot faster (because I won't take money out of the loan to make the EV car payments).
Residential solar (decentralized solar) still has a 30% tax credit that ends beginning 2026 thanks to the OBBB. But the tax credit didn't help consumers anyway (same for the EV tax credit). Suppliers artificially jacked up prices, saying not to worry about paying extra because you get it back when you file your taxes. I hate the govt picking and choosing anyway. And, as I pointed out, the left is wrong when they say the tax credits help consumers. The only people that the subsidies benefit are the businesses.
When is Vlad going to take the gloves off?
Question: Can you disconnect from the grid, power your home from your solar, then cancel and close your account with your electrical supplier?
This thread was posted from the very first unbiased Rooters report that I can recall, ever.
Sure. But I wouldn't recommend doing that. I designed and installed a system for my house that provides around 60% of my electricity needs. It's centered on a hybrid inverter and AGM batteries. If and when your inverter fails, and fail it will at some point, and you're off the grid, you'll have no electric until it's replaced.
My first inverter failed last year but since I'm connected to the grid and it provides power at night or when the panels don't output enough juice to power my loads, it took me five minutes to disconnect/bypass the inverter and reconnect straight to street power. Replacement inverter arrived in a week and ten minutes later I had it mounted and connected.
That's the point, that you can disconnect from the grid and cease paying anyone.
The intricacies of your finances and your choice of products that consume electricity are particular to you and how you wish to manage your life and finances. (America is a great place to be able to do that.)
However the financial selections you chose will not fit everyone, even if they do maintain ownership of solar equipment in their home.
There are instances when homeowners do not own the solar installations on their homes.
No. I don't have enough solar (nor inverter capacity, nor battery storage capacity) to handle the extreme power situations. It'd be infeasible to have enough inverter capacity to handle things like charging our EV while running the water heater in high demand mode (when family stays over and it runs at 4kW like a normal electric water heater instead of the usual 380W), while the outside temp is below 10F and the electric furnace is running at 11kW. My inverters can provide at most 18kW of continuous AC power (16kW when the grid is down). Thus they can handle the load almost all of the time, but not the few times we demand more than 18kW. I'm actually looking at expanding my inverter capacity. But even then we'll every once in a blue moon exceed 27kW of AC.
The same for my solar capacity not being enough to charge my battery stack if it rains four or five days in a row but we're still driving the EV like normal (50 miles per day, but the range is 230 miles when its charged to 80%) and it's really hot outside (thus the variable speed heat pump has to run in high mode a lot) and we're every now and then running other appliances like the dryer and cooking (electric stove and oven). Usually our 20kW of solar can provide enough power. And I can usually stretch when I charge the EV (no need to charge it on a rainy day if it's still got way more than enough charge for the next day's driving). But every now and then there's not enough solar on a string of rainy days. (I'm looking at expanding the solar to 30kW now that panel cost has gone way down. But even with that there will be a few rainy days in a row that's not worth trying to handle to be off-grid.)
The same for battery stack capacity usually being enough, but not always like if it's below 20F and we run the furnace a lot and, oh yeah, have to run the dryer for the clothes we washed earlier in the day, and got home late and charge the EV after driving it 150 miles even though the sun is down but need charge for the next day. That kind of situation doesn't happen a lot, not enough to increase my battery stack capacity over.
But in an emergency situation, there have been times the grid was down and we had plenty of power as long as we didn't do luxurious things like run the hot tub. And if we hadn't already started clothes we didn't start a load (and thus wind up using the dryer). This was just in case the power would be out for days.
With our normal power consumption habits, from early March to early November (8 months) there are probably a total of 10 days we pull from the grid. And that's without us trying to be careful not to (i.e. wash and dry clothes only on sunny days). Usually the only times we adjust our power consumption habits is with when we charge the EV. And even then, I let the system automatically do it. (If we come home with over 100 miles of range left on the EV and no plans to go anywhere special the next day, we plug in a charger that's intermittently powered by the solar inverters only when there's free power beyond what our home battery stack needs to power the home that night.) With minor adjustments to our power consumption habits, we could be off grid about 8 months out of the year. But the other 4 months (the 4 wintery weather months) it'd be infeasible to try to be off-grid. I'm happy pulling about 40% of my power from the grid on those months, about 20% overall across the year.
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