[ProtectOurFreedom]

From his amazement and breathless hyperbole, it strikes me that scribbler Michael Kimmelman always KNEW that electricity came out of the wall socket. He believes that meat magically gets to the supermarket butcher counter from some unknown simple place that makes meat. He is one of the child-like waifs who thinks that we can magically snap our fingers and switch to "green" power and that such plants never pollute nor will they be obsolete and torn down not far in the future.

I spent a lot of my career in power plants. It grieves me to see then turned into useless "haunted" theme parks. I spent more hours than you can imagine on those "grated catwalks."

If he thinks the old "peakers" were a problem, just wait until he learns about the horrendous performance, cost and pollution problem from battery energy storage.

This is SO pathetic.

[SuperLuminal]

Back in the 1970s, the President of San Diego Gas & Electric said it best:
“Let them freeze to death in the dark”...

[Tell It Right]

If he thinks the old "peakers" were a problem, just wait until he learns about the horrendous performance, cost and pollution problem from battery energy storage.

Agreed. And if anyone doesn't pay attention to how the grid is powered and you want to know how much the grid depends on solar and wind and battery, all you have to do is look at the fact that the Dims aren't trying to shut down solar and wind. If the grid depended on them, the Dims would hate solar and wind.

What opened my eyes to this phenomenon is the hatred the Dims learned to have toward natural gas during the Trump and Brandon years, even though it was as recent as the Obama years that the Dims were forcing many power utilities to shut down coal plants and replace them with "clean burning natural gas" fueled plants. The same for promoting everyone to switch to "clean natural gas heat" and natural gas fueled busses, etc. As soon as we depended more on natural gas, the Dims hated on natural gas.