Posted on 04/06/2024 5:11:56 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The final coal-fired power plants in New England are slated to shutter in the coming years, making it the second region to phase out the energy source that powered the U.S. economy for decades.
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Not to mention, skyrocketing energy prices. Everywhere “renewables” nave made a dent, costs soar. UK power costs twice what it does here, Germany three times. And becoming less reliable at that, while desecrating the environment.
The irony is that it’s New England, where it’s colder than Hillary’s eyes. Watch, they’ll be clamping down on wood stoves too.
You are what you vote.
Amen to your very bumpy ride.
Which NE states are banning new ICE vehicle sales first? Perfect storm for the region that creates rust buckets the fastest.
And an era of consumer death from heat/cold, on a scale we haven’t ever seen.
Give these idiots a couple of years and they’ll be begging for electricity from any source.
Other than being totally wrong, he did exactly what he was trained to do.
Why is New Hampshire doing it? I thought it was an oasis of semi-sanity in that northeast quadrant of dangerous lunatics.
Not neighboring states, but Canada.
There is a power line from Quebec Hydro being built down through Maine.
When it is completed it will bring power in at less money per kilowatt than either of these plants can compete with.
One of the key things that would make electric rates cheaper in New England is getting rid of the Jones Act.
It is most expensive to ship LNG from TX to Boston than it is to Europe.
This is because the Jones Act requires any US vessel shipments require Union crews and US flagged vessels.
This makes the transportation of LNG more expensive.
Natural Gas other than Hydro is now the least expensive way to produce electricity in the US.
Cheaper than nuclear.
That’s because union leadership is part of the hammer and sickle crowd.
Good luck having enough “clean” electricity to power your EVs.
Fuel oil? Oh, wait. That's "fossil".
Natural gas? Oh, wait. That's "fossil".
Wood? Oh, wait. That's "pre-fossil".
Coal? Oh, wait. That's "fossil".
Solar panels? Yup. That's the ticket. The sun shines long and hot up there all winter. That'll work and save the planet too! They can harvest unicorn farts along with the maple syrup. They will fill in whatever gaps exist!
Think of the workers they will lay off. Years of experience gone over a whim. I suppose they could re-purpose their career to pulling carts in the neighborhood after a freeze “Bring out your dead! bring out your dead!”
I have read that turds can be burned.
That ‘green’ energy will be the mold growing on the once-numerous engines of this country’s economy.
They will finally find out the true cost of oreing, milling and slagging and machining steel. Gonna be a rea trick with them windmills.
We are quickly running out of people who would be the ones who’ve “had enough” due to aging...
I still hope that one day it will happen though...And America will become America again....
Well phrased! “A whim” is a perfect description.
Up thread, somebody mentioned that we’ll all end up burning wood.
I am already doing that!
NH tracks the average statewide prices for the various fuel types:
Natural Gas 1st Tier (<100 Therms) Current Average Price is $1.39 / Therm$/MBTU $17.33
Wood (Bagged ton) Current Average Price is $375.57 $/MBTU $28.45
Fuel Oil (#2) Current Average Price is $4.08 / Gallon $/MBTU $36.86
Cord Wood Current Average Price is $/MBTU $43.3
Kerosene Current Average Price is $5.02 / Gallon $/MBTU $46.48
Propane Current Average Price is $3.97 / Gallon $/MBTU $54.39
Electricity Resistance Heat Current Average Price is $0.1911 kwh: $/MBTU $56.00
So, we ship the coal to China and they burn it so dirty that we end up with MORE mercury in our general environment here.
Case in point - some lakes near me that had heavy mercury contamination from back in the 40’ and 50’s are safe enough now to eat fish from — occasionally. But some formerly very clean lakes (including, ironically, a cooling lake at a modern coal plant!) are now also dubbed safe for only occasional fish consumption. So we’ve fixed our hot spots, but the general level of mercury is higher. My local fisheries biologist says that general level is mostly drifting here from “Asia”.
Hot air. Many,if not all enviros,are probably pathologically obsessive...would rather freeze to death than to have their theories proven incorrect.
Read the book “Shorting the Grid”. Canada won’t have enough power to sell.
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