Yeah. We should have built more power plants and also nuclear. But noooo. We have transfer to a green economy. Then you’ll see blackouts. Permanently. These commies are gonna pay.
Food, water, alternate heat and cooking and the guns and ammo to defend same.
For Conservatives, an annoyance.
Upside, when they come to my door and demand I share...
If I stick a Peace Sign in my window, that will at least assure that power stays on for me.
Alaska’s grid is separate from the rest of the country and Canada, so we’ll still have power. Our problem will be the stoppage of all incoming supplies.
Numerous utility companies threw huge amounts of money down the “renewable energy” rat hole that would have been better spent on upgrading transmission and distribution infrastructure. We are going to see the fruits of the green energy folly soon.
Oh, BS.
My power went out for 18 hours last week because a distribution wire fell down to the ground. The outage affected approximately the same fraction of our city’s population as happened in NYC.
I was about to go buy a portable generator to run the refrigerator, but surveyed the distribution system again and saw that reconstructive efforts were being made.
Sure enough, power was back on within 2 hours.
Fake news. 0bama used his trillion dollars to fix all that.
I have my natural gas line connected emergency generator and auto on and off synced to the grid on or offline. The grid goes down it comes on, the grid comes back on it goes off. No gasoline; just the natural gas line.
However, yes, there are some possible gaps in the reliability of the flow of natural gas. Some pumping, compression and control points along the pipeline do depend on electricity nearby and in some cases gasoline as a fuel in compression operations.
Some control and pumping operations in the pipeline system do draw directly on incoming natural gas that gets diverted to running the pumping or compression operations or as fuel for generators for electricity for operations, but that is not a universal attribute throughout the whole pipeline system. In my view it ought to be. The reliability of the system no matter what happens to the electric grid is worth the cost.
To those who are unprepared.
The bad news is that the Rats have shut down all the coal and nuclear plants around here...but the good news is we have plenty of windmills!
No wind, no TV Edith.
A smart guy said that.
Amen. The book One Second After is a great source to get you thinking.
Try it. Try going for just two days with no electricity and no water. Then imagine months of that.
Renewable energy is distributed, but it is so variable that it ADDS instability to the grid. Whether fast winds shutting down wind turbines to solar dropping from an unplanned storm front, the sheer variation increases the odds of an overload somewhere.
If the grid goes down and someone uses that as an opportunity to smoke 1000 anti-fa supporting democrats, is that a tragedy?
Our power went out for days due to a snow storm. I learned that you can’t buy gas without cash. Those pumps don’t work without power.
Well. I have seen and discussed studies on this so-called “tree” outage in Ohio. That is simply a WAY simplistic and incorrect statement. Trust me, there was a whole lot more going on when that happened. Additionally, this was some years ago and technology and standards have improved a ton since then.
And yeah, mostly leftists will die if the grid fails. They congregate together and don’t know how to do much for themselves. So yeah. They will die first.
If the cause is EMP vs a squirrel, multiple studies, both government and civilian written, say that up to 90% fatalities should be expected within a year. With a total shutdown, generators won’t make a difference because gas distribution would halt immediately. Same with food, medicine, baseball cards and chewing gum. A great book on the subject, “One Second After”, gives a terrifying account of what WOULD happen. It’s a real possibility and it’s a really BAD possibility.
It is just a matter of time til we see a massive blackout. We prepared 10 years ago as did a handful of our friends. At the time I warned all my friends “I can warn you but I can’t feed you”.