Why Freeze in the Dark?

Winter’s too far off. They plan to get “dumber for the summer”.

Wall Street Journal- Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.

From California to Texas to Indiana, electric-grid operators are warning that power-generating capacity is struggling to keep up with demand, a gap that could lead to rolling blackouts during heat waves or other peak periods as soon as this year.

The risk of electricity shortages is rising throughout the U.S. as traditional power plants are being retired more quickly than they can be replaced by renewable energy and battery storage. Power grids are feeling the strain as the U.S. makes a historic transition from conventional power plants fueled by coal and natural gas to cleaner forms of energy such as wind and solar power, and aging nuclear plants are slated for retirement in many parts of the country.

29 Replies to “Why Freeze in the Dark?”

  1. Most vulnerable are the elderly, so if they didn’t manage to kill enough old people with ‘vaccines’/’boosters’, there’s always the good ole electricity grid shutdown during a heat wave.

    1. DanC, “they will not kill this old fart during a heat wave, I like it 90+ and humid. My wife hates me when it gets there. I am elderly as those things go.

  2. In Ontario, before privatization, some small towns had their own generators with dams on the Trent River and the Skootamata river, owned by the townships. Then the state decided that one huge monopoly would be better.

  3. conventional power plants fueled by coal and natural gas to cleaner forms of energy such as wind and solar power, and aging nuclear plants that are Needed to run all the Shit hooked
    up to it .
    FIXED THAT FOR YOU.
    AS SOMEONE IN CANADA SAID, *WATCHING THE DUMB BASTERDARDS BURN UP OR FREEZING IN THE DARK. *

    1. Well no, Osumashi ; there has never been a vote, or the public asked, about a “transition to green energy”. It is a forced from the top down policy and all the parties, except PPC federally and New Blue in Ontario offer the same carp. And the elites wonder why populism is popular?

      No one voted for the insanity; it is forced upon us and we are excommunicated if we dissent. Time for a defenestration.

      And there’s that word “MANDATE” again. Just as the experimental drug was mandated for covid-1984, so are electric cars mandated for 2035. What happens when nobody buys them?

      1. I sure as hell did not vote for any of what we are being forced to accept. The a holes that sit in parliament are a reflection of the intellect of the AVERAGE VOTER. THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OF WE ABOVE AVERAGE VOTERS TO MAKE SANITY THE RULE.

      2. None of the parties hid their green agenda and Canadians know who raises their taxes.

        So, yes, people voted for this.

        The Europeans crave it. The Americans are three steps behind the Canadians and are looking forward to blackouts.

  4. “The risk of electricity shortages is rising throughout the U.S. as traditional power plants are being retired more quickly than they can be replaced by renewable energy and battery storage. Power grids are feeling the strain as the U.S. makes a historic transition from conventional power plants fueled by coal and natural gas to cleaner forms of energy such as wind and solar power, and aging nuclear plants are slated for retirement in many parts of the country.”

    “renewable” energy cannot replace either baseload or dispatchable on demand power plants.
    there isn’t enough battery production available to provide grid based UPS
    wind and solar are not “cleaner” as despite them having free “fuel” they produce less power in their lifespan than what it takes to create them, and have to be 100% backed up by dispatchable power plants, which generally don’t provide optimal efficiency when run is dispatch mode.

    but that’s what you get when you override engineers and put politicians in charge of power generation

      1. Engineers greedily rub their hands together when it comes to green energy. Think of all the opportunities to rebuild all the current electrical generation as well as the additional that will be required by switching vehicles to electric.

        They don’t care who suffers as a result as long as they get their commission.

        And before you attack me, I am an engineer.

        1. I also am an engineer, and I am sickened by the embrace of solar and wind and carbon capture/storage by current engineering “talent”. I swore an oath on cold steel to do everything I could do to keep from having people hurt by my decisions. Current policies are going to hurt people. A pox on those who embrace the renewable/sustainable crap, including widespread electric vehicle promotion.

  5. But, but, but where will I get the power to plug in my Tesla or even my Chevy Volt??? Won’t we all be driving electric cars by 2030?

  6. Idiots.

    HYDROELECTRICITY. The only word you need to learn if you truly want to solve this problem.

    1. Portable hydro power is possible but the big boys frawn upon being self-sufficient and cheap.
      Tide power too would work extremely well but again, they hate cheap energy being produced and renewed.
      Water torque is far more powerful than wind and need less space compared with wind.
      But our politicians know best in who pays their corruption.

      1. “Water torque is far more powerful than wind and need less space compared with wind.
        But our politicians know best in who pays their corruption.”

        They certainly do.

        To me, the only people worse than the ones who constantly push wind and solar on us are the ones who actually make money selling the stuff.

    2. We will get our electricity from coal, natural gas and nuclear power for hundreds of years. We do not need the swindle-mills and subsidy farms, only the green zealots and scammers do.

    3. Sorry Fred, just not enough water flow on the planet unless you think tidal power is possible. Ask NS how that has worked out in the Bat of Fundy. Other ideas are just that, ideas.

      1. “Sorry Fred, just not enough water flow on the planet unless you think tidal power is possible. Ask NS how that has worked out in the Bat of Fundy. Other ideas are just that, ideas.”

        I guess I’m just spoiled, living in BC…mountains and valleys make up pretty much the entire landmass of the province.

        Canada has one-fifth of the world’s fresh water supply. I say hydroelectricity wherever possible (and don’t forget that we can transmit that energy for hundreds or even *thousands* of miles…BC sells power to California, for example) and nuclear where necessary. ANYTHING but the ridiculously expensive and horribly inefficient wind or solar scams that they keep pushing on us: these are only good for BACKUP systems, and useless for base loads. Only the people who profit from designing or selling these “renewable”, and the gullible ones they have convinced to support them, think this is a good idea. Take away their subsidies and we’ll see how well they fare.

  7. Its obvious even to retards like myself that having batteries back up the intermittent generation provided by solar and wind should have been created first. The problem is that the sub-retards don’t want to deal with facts and mathy sciencey stuff because those batteries would be enormous. Unlike say, some uranium.

  8. “Historic transition …”? Talk about being on the WRONG SIDE of history …

  9. The effing morons responsible for this should be hung from lamp posts along with the Covid hustlers.

  10. Every freaking day the people get dumber. I don’t want to have to confront someone who wants to kill me because of their insanity, but I will.

  11. I don’t want to, but I could live again in a cave with just a wood-burning fire to warm me as I eat some deer meat on a spit while wrapped in animal fur, with no iphone in sight. I could. It’s those morons out there causing all this who won’t be able to. They’ll go stark raving mad when the very policies they slobber about and vote for cause the loss of civilization, electricity, travel, easily-available food, heat and air-conditioning on demand, breakdown of the rule-of-law, etc. They’ll be the ones turning into the crazed zombies that we sane ones will have to run from, hide from, or fight.
    And our elites will just continue to live the lives of the Hunger-Games elite. THEY won’t sacrifice an iota of their use of fossil fuels, food consumption, travel, etc. Some of them are even starting to look like the ruling class in those movies now. Have you seen the latest award galas? Kinda eerie.

    1. Yep.

      It’s not about a lack of resources but pooling them all for the elite.

  12. add sufficient EVs requiring avg BILLION miles/kms/take yer pick aaaaaand . . . . .
    ask where that capacity comes from.

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