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Ghosts On The Grid

Alternative Subsidy It's Probably Nothing Little Known Facts 9 Comments

With the Feast of All Hallows rapidly approaching I thought it would be apt to explain how the grid is haunted by a concept that doesn’t really exist. A pre-occupation with a made-up concept risks the security of our power grids. In this blog I will explain how “vars” aren’t real, and treating them as if they are is creating existential risks on our power grids.

Not being able to properly explain reactive power is common in the energy industry – ask a dozen people to explain it and you’ll get twelve different answers. Most will reach for the beer-glass analogy where real power as the liquid and reactive power is the froth, or mutter something about “energy sloshing back and forth” on the grid. More sophisticated responses will mention capacitors “injecting vars” and inductors absorbing them. These phrases are repeated so often that they’ve become folklore. Unfortunately none of them describes what actually happens in power grids.

“Vars” in particular is an accounting fictions that obscure the underlying physics. And because we’ve replaced understanding of the physics with shorthand, we now incorrectly believe that anything producing current including batteries, solar inverters, or a clever algorithm, can perform the same stabilising role as the electromagnetic machines that built our power system.This misunderstanding could one day cost us the grid.

Go read it.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

Art Of The Deal New Governor Shiny Pony 26 Comments

This is a really good explainer.

Threadrolled here.

There Goes The Narrative

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@sunlorrie – Only in Ford’s Ontario would Reagan explaining his reasons for imposing tariffs on Japan be transformed into an ad about Reagan defending free trade…

Updates.

Update: To that end, I am pleased to see Ontario’s ad campaign is being suspended…

@LaurieScottPC – See my statement below regarding the announced closure of Holsag’s manufacturing facility in Lindsay, Ontario.

Meanwhile…

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter

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Score another hit for Fat Trudeau.

The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

Ronald Reagan’s unedited remarks.

“…a sweeping criminal enterprise that envelopes both the NBA and La Cosa Nostra”

New Rules 24 Comments

Fox News;

Kash Patel names multiple high-profile NBA arrests in an alleged illegal gambling ring that spanned years.

More than 30 people were arrested in the case — including current and former NBA stars and suspected members of the American branch of the Sicilian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra.

Patel says the FBI “entered and executed justice” against the crime families including the Bonanno crime family, Gambino crime family, Genovese crime family and Lucchese crime family.

Transcript here.

“I’ll just highlight some of the some of the details in the case and the FBI work, and then you’ll hear from the others. But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today, former, current NBA players and coaches. What you don’t know is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing. Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice against La Cosa Nostra to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families. And you’ll hear more about those details today.”

Updates: LeBron James dragged into NBA betting scandal

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

New Governor The Libranos 31 Comments

After a 6 month losing streak, Carney’s going to poke the blame-America elbows into another election, by the looks of things.

Pretty safe to say he’s working for China, yes? We just found out the liberal signed the UN a global shipping carbon tax

Things you’re gonna see on the CBC: preconditioning Canadians for Liberal failures

More at Pipeline Online.

Y2Kyoto: No Tech For You!

AI Tech Y2Kyoto 24 Comments

Steve Saretsky – BC government effectively admitting they don’t have enough hydro power. Meanwhile, many cities have banned natural gas heating in new homes. Incompetence abounds.

British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects.

The government of Canada’s third-most populous province will prioritize connections to its power grid for other purposes like mines and natural gas facilities because they provide more jobs and revenue for people in BC, the energy ministry said Monday.

“Other jurisdictions have been challenged to address electricity demands from emerging sectors and, in many cases, have placed significant rate increases on the backs of ratepayers,” the department said Monday.

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