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Batteries can't do the job greenies think Exclusive: Brent Smith does the math on what NYC would need for just a few days of backup
wnd.com ^ | 5/14/2021 | Brent Smith

Posted on 05/15/2021 7:42:29 AM PDT by rktman

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1. Brent Smith does the math= racis'

2. If the ecowanker/climageddonists truly believe, they should divest themselves of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that has been in anyway produced or associated with the use of fossil fuels. Manufactured items, transported items etc. EVERYTHING. No? Why not? The smell of dung fires from the porch of your mud hut not that inviting as you slap at the myriad of insects attacking you?

1 posted on 05/15/2021 7:42:29 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

We’re shutting down 100 coal fired plants a week while Red China is firing up 1000 a week.


2 posted on 05/15/2021 7:45:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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We’re shutting down 100 coal fired plants a week while Red China is firing up 1000 a week.

Week is probably the wrong units.

3 posted on 05/15/2021 7:47:06 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: rktman

It’s not for everyone, just a select few.


4 posted on 05/15/2021 7:47:27 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
From 2020: While more than 546 coal-fired power units have retired in the US over the past decade, just 21 new units have opened during the same period.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/us-coal-company-bankruptcies/#

Change "week" to "every two years"

5 posted on 05/15/2021 7:50:57 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: rktman

>>and of course to spend us into oblivion without acknowledging any consequence for their actions.

With debt comes default comes collapse comes Marxism.


6 posted on 05/15/2021 7:51:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. L)
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To: rktman
Anyone here live on the east coast? Here we are in spring, 3 weeks ago I was up in Boston where there was a major SNOW STORM (see pic below). Here we are 2 weeks before June and every morning I have to wear a sweat shirt. Only this weekend does it seem to be hitting 70 degrees and I'll bet this summer it will be like last year rarely hitting 90. I remember 50 years ago in the 1970s it regularly hitting in the 90s. Global warming MY ASS!


7 posted on 05/15/2021 7:52:19 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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We need to get past debating them from the standpoint that they actually BELIEVE in what they’re pushing and into just who these people are and what they REALLY want for America and the rest of the West. Until then, we will NEVER be able to properly deal with them, and they’ll continue to advance on us.

And the FIRST STEP in fighting back is to acknowledge that their leaders are SMART, VERY SMART, and far smarter than we are. For example, while our leaders were busy ‘debating’ and going to the gym with their “friends across the aisle”, they were installing several hundred highly trusted people in key positions, in key states, to count votes (using what was ACORN as cover to organize), and thereby flip a national election to a party that represents no more than 40% of the country (if that).

We need to quit thinking they believe what they claim and instead deal with just who they really are.


8 posted on 05/15/2021 7:55:40 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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All the grid needs is four days of backup. NY electricity comes from afar, generation will come back online in little time.


9 posted on 05/15/2021 7:56:46 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I've lived in New England most of my life and I remember we always seemed to have at least one or two 90 degree days in late April.

This year, it has yet to hit even 80 degrees. Even here in Southern Connecticut. Although the past couple of days have been fairly nice (low 70s), it still drops into the low 40s at night. In fact, just three days ago, my car lit up the "freeze" light on my way to work. It was 37 degrees in the middle of May!

Global warming is one of the biggest scams ever.

10 posted on 05/15/2021 7:56:59 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You story illustrates why the fascist environmentalists have changed “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”.

Now any unusual weather of any kind is due to made-made climate change. And we must spend billions of dollars to fix the problem, before it’s too late.

And note the word “fascist” in my first paragraph. It’s there because no debate is allowed on this topic.


11 posted on 05/15/2021 8:06:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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“We’re shutting down 100 coal fired plants a week while Red China is firing up 1000 a week.”

LOL!


12 posted on 05/15/2021 8:08:03 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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“546 coal-fired power units have retired in the US over the past decade”

Beyond any green fantasies, the main reason for this is economics. Technologies evolve. Right now a mix of renewables and natural gas is much cheaper than coal.

It may come that renewables + batteries are the cheapest way to power a country. We are far from that now, but batteries prices are dropping every year.


13 posted on 05/15/2021 8:12:07 AM PDT by Renfrew
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Bah, that little dusting? We received 14” out of that storm, today is beautiful though at a heat stroke inducing 66f.


14 posted on 05/15/2021 8:22:09 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Leaning Right
With all the initiatives to date and all the money spent....not a soul on earth can prove it has made progress towards adjusting "Global Warming" or "Climate Change".

No soul on eart knows what the correct "temperature" should be...what the correct "proportions should make up the atmosphere at any point in time.

What we're doing to alter "climate" is a solution that has no solution. It's a farce.

15 posted on 05/15/2021 8:27:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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They do t care if it can do the job, in fact I would say they don’t want it to be viable, because this would then give gov more power as society comes to a screeching g halt, and mandates can then be put in place to deal with the ‘crisis’


16 posted on 05/15/2021 8:43:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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Any kind of cold wreaks havoc on batteries.

The northern portions of the United States get cold in the winter.

Idiots who believe in batteries in the winter are mouth-breathing morons who learned nothing of the physical sciences in high school or college.

17 posted on 05/15/2021 9:15:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Our industrialized society cannot function without power from petroleum products. The dems WANT it shut down. That will enable china to become the major producer for the whole world. The USA will become a turd world country.


18 posted on 05/15/2021 9:15:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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I might use 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month in the Florida summer.

A electric car battery would normally be kept close to being fully charged in everyday life and might have 50 kilowatt hours of charge on average. That’s three days supply.

Most households have two motor vehicles, one for the woman of the house, and one for the man of the house. Often Junior has a car too.

In NYC, there might be a problem connecting the family apartment to the family car batteries. It could be done with smart technology.

In the suburbs, car-to-house connection involves plugging in a cord. If you forget to connect, your smartphone could let you know.


19 posted on 05/15/2021 9:34:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“Any kind of cold wreaks havoc on batteries.”

...and the car battery thermostat switched on to keep the batteries efficient.


20 posted on 05/15/2021 9:41:06 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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