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3 pointsAs the worldwide price of petroleum fuels increase, more consumers will carefully consider moving to EV's of all types. That's one way that the market "works". Just sayin'...
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3 pointsWhile I respect you were more imminently impacted by that event... Please give me your source. I gave you some of mine, and there's MUCH more below. I hope yours was not Alex Jones. ERCOT requested relief from environmental regulations on February 14, 2021, at 10:00 AM Central Time, FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY! The EPA did not turn down ERCOT's request for relief from environmental regulations during the Texas February, 2021 power event. The authority to grant waivers from environmental regulations in the event of a power grid emergency lies with the Department of Energy (DOE). The Department of Energy has the authority to grant relief from environmental regulations during an energy emergency. This authority is granted under the Defense Production Act (DPA), enacted in 1950 to give the President authority to mobilize the domestic economy in support of national defense. The President delegates his DPA authority to the DOE. The DOE can issue orders to businesses and other entities to take actions that are necessary to address the emergency, even if those actions would otherwise violate environmental regulations. The DOE's authority to grant relief from environmental regulations is not unlimited. The DOE can only issue orders under the DPA if it determines that the emergency is "so grave that it requires the taking of immediate action." The DOE must also consider the environmental impacts of its orders and take steps to minimize those impacts to the extent practicable. On February 14, 2021, ERCOT requested an emergency order from the DOE to allow certain power plants to operate at maximum levels and exceed federal limits on emissions and wastewater release. The DOE granted ERCOT's request the same day. The EPA issued a statement on February 15, 2021, saying that it was "aware of the emergency order issued by DOE" and that it would "work with DOE to ensure that any waivers granted are consistent with the intent of the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws." The EPA does not have a veto over the DOE's authority to grant waivers from environmental regulations in the event of a power grid emergency. AND.. FROM ERCOT ITSELF... https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/02/15/ERCOT_202_c__DOE_2021-2-14a.pdf
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3 pointsOh damm it. What's a fella to do? Ahh coal/NG?...Ya don't say
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3 pointsALL electric power plants emit SOMETHING. Renewable sources have ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE less emissions per MWh. Don't get me started on the emissions directly attributable to extraction, refining and transport of petroleum product.
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2 pointsI gotta admit, as long as your EV (or any other power bank) is placed OUTSIDE your home, that could work. You will need to select and dedicate circuits to solar system power within your home. Or at LEAST have proper transfer switches in place when the sun goes down and any storage runs low. While I realize that there are commercial offerings for home battery storage, I personally refuse to have a chemical battery storage system located within my residence. Eventually, EV's are going to require pre-fire detection systems, coupled with AI to disconnect and then move the EV to a safer location, hopefully being capable to open an automatic garage door first. Regulations are coming. I don't know when, but they are coming. Watch this space.
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2 pointsI must ask..are you becoming senile? I guess old crows just fade away..hopefully. The current EV narrative has nearly 91,000 cars piling up at dealerships as consumer enthusiasm for the new technology dwindles. At some dealerships, that’s true. Cox Automotive data shows EV supply of more than 100 days on dealership lots, more than double the number of gasoline vehicles. https://jalopnik.com/the-ev-oversupply-is-nothing-to-worry-about-actually-1850724463#:~:text=The current EV narrative has,the number of gasoline vehicles.
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2 pointsAnd once again reality makes a fool of you: Europe In August 2023, EU battery-electric car registrations surged by 118.1%, reaching 165,165 units, accounting for 21% of the market. Except for Malta (-22.6%), all EU markets saw double- and triple-digit percentage growth, with Germany, the largest market by volume, growing by a remarkable 170.7%. Belgium recorded the highest growth rate of 224.5%. Overall, battery-electric car sales increased by a significant 62.7%, with nearly 1 million units registered from January to August. US A total of 126,294 plug-in vehicles (99,089 BEVs and 27,205 PHEVs) were sold during August 2023 in the United States, up 71.5% from the sales in August 2022. PEVs captured 9.51% of total LDV sales this month. China
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2 pointsNot when you plug them in and seldom put in fossil fuel. They are 80% EV! Pathetic that you are trying to claim cars that run mostly on electricity. You are getting desperate.
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2 pointsI would rather ask which interconnection he resides in. The Western Interconnect, the Eastern Interconnect, or ERCOT. They ALL have wind, solar, hydro, batteries, pumped hydro (ERCOT excepted), coal, nat gas, distillate, biomass, and nuclear sources. The Western interconnect is unique as it has a smidgen of geothermal. The Eastern interconnect is unique as it has a smidgen of CAES. You cannot tell which source shakes the "electron sea" back and forth in your home's conductors, as they ALL contribute.
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2 pointsYa Don't Say...Our democracy Demands It. Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/business/electric-vehicles-uaw-gm-ford-stellantis.html
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2 pointsLogic you say? A world class automaker losing billions on a heavily government subsidized EV line of of autos...and after 6 yrs of development and countless billions of wealth lost! And they still can't produce EV jalopies? EV jalopies Videographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/ Indeed EV logic is questionable at its very core. Logic from a activist..Now that is rare territory.
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2 pointsThe quantity of "working fluid" used in these CO2 cycles is limited (with a quite small make-up CO2 flow for inevitable leakage from at least the shaft seals, unless they use a separate generator hermetically sealed with the CO2 Turbine and Compressor) but we will ignore that issue. So the amount of CO2 required is limited, say to about 20 tons (actually a wild-ass guess on my part) for a reasonably sized CO2 turbine capable of absorbing the available waste heat from a reasonably sized CT. Once that captured CO2 quantity is reached and stored for use in the cycle, that's the end of the storage capability of the unit, and the rest, resulting from wherever the unit sources CO2 from, must then be disposed of. 20 tons of pure CO2 at 60 degrees F at atmospheric pressure will require about 350,000 cubic feet of spherical "dome", or about a half spherical dome of at least 900 feet in diameter. It would be smaller if my "wild-ass guess" is too large. That said, there are some attractive thermodynamic advantages to a supercritical CO2 cycle. And the fluid used is fairly benign. Pure water used in a steam Rankin cycle is NOT benign. As for capital cost, I would expect it to be on-par with a steam bottoming cycle once the turbomachinery becomes "mature" (except for that dome).
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2 pointsI agree with that but a better sales job and follow through guaranteed by developers might sell the good points. Mush of the American West is just poor grazing land for ranches but has far greater potential with proper management. The potential advantages and beautification plus another profit stream is worth going for.
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2 pointshttps://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167561417/california-diesel-truck-phase-out-plan-epa
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2 pointsHrmm, something to do with hurricanes and trees.... Just like the PNW EDIT: Only difference PNW calls them Pineapple expresses. PNW has averaged 100+mph winds over 5 times a year on the coast for instance. ~75mph inland. SE USA also has FAST growing trees so clearing lines requires more $$$/mile than NE etc.
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2 pointsWell, N. Canada/Scandinavia by themselves are responsible for 1/4 --> 1/3 of recorded sea level rise... Sea Level rise is the one of BIGGEST proofs AGAINST human caused global warming. Its increase is linear. Majority of glaciers rate of retreat has slowed, not sped up, and their fastest rate was at beginning of 20th century... Where were all the puffing CO2 back then...??? Nowhere to be found. This indicates less rapid heating. Human population and usage of CO2 puffing fuels is Asymptotic. To believe for even 1 second rising sea levels have anything to do with Human caused Global Warming.... sigh
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2 pointsToo bad you are unable to come up with any decent arguments. All you can do is make stupid insults.
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2 pointshttps://www.theepochtimes.com/science/as-climate-experts-warn-of-looming-catastrophe-past-bad-predictions-hurt-their-message-5148630?utm_medium=FactsMatter&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=Climate&utm_content=03-30-2023 ENVIRONMENT As Climate Experts Warn of Looming Catastrophe, Past Bad Predictions Hurt Their Message A glacier is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft above Ellesmere Island, Canada, on March 29, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Petr Svab 3/25/2023 Updated: 3/29/2023 Print X 1 0:00 Humanity only has a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by a ballast of dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out. Environmental experts have been predicting upcoming doom for many decades. Most, though not all, of the prognostications involve climatic cataclysm that appears to be just around the corner, only to fizzle out as the deadline approaches. As the failed predictions pile up, climate experts appear to be more cautious in making their predictions too specific. The current general consensus among climate change proponents is that extreme weather events, such as droughts and storms, will become more prevalent or intense. The recently released short-form report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that unless carbon emissions are cut drastically and promptly, the planet will warm roughly an additional 1.1-2.4 degrees Celsius by 2100 (pdf). That would lead to “high” or “very high” risk of wildfire damage, permafrost degradation, biodiversity loss, dryland water scarcity, and tree mortality on the land, and loss of warm-water corals in the sea. Most of the severe risks are asserted with moderate or low confidence, meaning that underlying evidence is lacking or inconclusive. The full IPCC report hasn’t been released yet. One of the most famous climate experts, Michael Mann, criticized the IPCC for being “overly conservative” in predicting catastrophic consequences of climate change, “including ice sheet collapse, sea level rise, and the rise in extreme weather events,” Inside Climate News reported. But it’s been exactly these kinds of bold predictions that have undermined experts’ credibility in the past. Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has collected some such failed predictions in his book, “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.” Geologist and electrical engineer Tony Heller, who frequently criticizes what he considers fraud in current mainstream climate research, has made it a recurring theme of his climate science blog to point out failed and dubious predictions. Advertisement - Story continues below Examples are plentiful, stretching far into the past: December 1939 “All the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting,” the Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Sunday Courier reported. “It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse,” the paper quoted Prof. Hans Ahlmann, a Swedish geologist, saying from a report to the Geographical Society after his Arctic expedition. In fact, arctic ice was seen receding since 1918, according to a 1923 New York Time article. “Last Winter, oceans did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen,” article said. By comparison, this winter, sea ice did reach the shore of Spitzbergen, though in low concentrations. Back then, however, the meltdown seemed nowhere near done. May 1947 “The possibility of a prodigious rise in the surface of the ocean with resultant widespread inundation, arising from an Arctic climate phenomenon[,] was discussed yesterday by Dr. Hans Ahlmann, a noted Swedish geophysicist at the University of California Geophysical Institute,” an article in The West Australian read. “The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study the conditions on a global basis,” Ahlmann said. February 1952 “The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago,” said Dr. William Carlson, an Arctic expert, according to a newswire run by The Cairns Post in Australia. March 1955 “There are now six million square miles of ice in the Arctic. There once were 12 million square miles,” said Arctic explorer Adm. Donald McMillan, according to Rochester, New York’s Democrat and Chronicle. October 1958 “Some scientists estimate that the polar ice pack is 40 percent thinner and 12 percent less in area than it was a half-century ago, and that even within the lifetime of our children, the Arctic Ocean may open, enabling ships to sail over the North Pole,” The New York Times reported, noting that the Arctic ice sheet was about 7 feet thick at the time. Currently, the ice is about 7 feet thick, too. By the 1960s, it appears that worries about a melting Arctic became not as immediate, only to be supplanted by other environmental concerns. November 1967 “It is already too late for the world to avoid a long period of famine,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing Paul Ehrlich’s prediction of famines by 1975. Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist and author of “The Population Bomb,” proposed lacing staple foods and drinking water with sterilizing agents to cut the growing population of the United States, according to the report. April 1970 “Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century,” The Boston Globe reported, saying that pollution expert James Lodge predicted that “air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century.” October 1970 Ehrlich went on to predict that America would be rationing water by 1974 and food by 1980, California’s Redlands Daily Facts reported. July 1971 “The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age,” said atmospheric scientist S. I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Columbia University, The Washington Post reported. January 1972 “We have 10 years to stop the catastrophe,” said Maurice Strong, then-U.N. environmental secretary, regarding world’s environmental problems, according to a Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. December 1972 Two Brown University geologists wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon, reporting that a conference attended by “42 top American and European investigators” concluded “a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.” “The present rate of cooling,” they said, “seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.” January 1974 “Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast,” The Guardian reported. June 1974 “Another Ice Age?” a Time Magazine headline asked. “Telltale signs are everywhere—from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest,” the article said. January 1978 “An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,” The New York Times reported. A year later, the paper was reporting the opposite. February 1979 “There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate,” The New York Times said. May 1982 Mostafa Tolba, then-executive director of the U.N. environmental program, said that if the world didn’t change course, it would face “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust’’ by the year 2000, according to The New York Times. September 1988 The small island nation of Maldives was threatened to be completely covered by “a gradual rise in average sea level” in 30 years, Agence France-Presse reported, noting that “the end of the Maldives and its people could come sooner if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted.” Tourists pose for pictures at the Velana International Airport in the Maldives on July 14, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images) Maldives are still nowhere near under water. In fact, despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s decimation of tourism, the nation still attracts new developments. Just last week, Emirati development company awarded a $148 million contract to build 120 luxurious over-water and beachfront villas on Maledives’ South Male Atoll, Hotelier Maledives reported. June 1989 “A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000,” California’s San Jose Mercury News reported. A snowman at the High Plains Bar and Restuarant at Dinner Plains at Mount Hotham, in Mount Hotham, Australia, on June 17, 2005. (Mark Dadswell/Getty Images). “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” The Independent wrote. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” said David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of England's University of East Anglia, noting that within a few years, winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event.” While snow is rare in southern England, it still comes pretty much every winter. December 2001 “The changes in climate could potentially extirpate the sugar maple industry in New England” within 20 years, according to George Hurtt, co-author of a 2001 global warming report commissioned by the U.S. Congress, according to Albuquerque Journal. Today, New England still produces plenty of maple syrup. February 2004 The Guardian reported on a secret Pentagon report that predicted climate change will lead to nuclear war, major European cities will sink into the ocean, and Britain would descend into “Siberian” climate by the year 2020. January 2006 “Unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return,” The Associated Press wrote, paraphrasing Al Gore, a prominent global warming advocate. November 2007 This year was the “defining moment” of the climate change fight, according to Rajendra Pachauri, then-head of the U.N. climate panel. “If there is no action before 2012, that’s too late,” the official said, according to The New York Times. November 2007 “The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015—something that hasn’t happened in more than a million years,” Canada's Canwest News Service reported, paraphrasing polar researcher Louis Fortier. December 2007 “Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?” said an Associated Press headline. “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” said Jay Zwally, a NASA climate scientist, according to the article. December 2007 “Artic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’” the BBC reported. "Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," a researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, told the BBC. "So given that fact, you can argue that maybe our projection of 2013 is already too conservative." March 2008 “If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” said Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, according to Xinhua, China’s official propaganda mouthpiece. Norway’s average temperature did slightly increase from 2007 to 2008. The ice didn’t melt. April 2008 “North Pole could be ice free in 2008,” reported New Scientist. ,” said David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, according to National Geographic News.June 2008“In five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of ice in the summer,” The Associated Pressreported, paraphrasing James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Sciences.December 2009[caption id="attachment_2737852" align="alignnone" width="600"]Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore makes a speech during the COP24 U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) “The Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014,” Al Gore said, according to USA Today. September 2012 “Enjoy snow now … by 2020, it’ll be gone,” The Australian reported. It still snows in Australia. Last year’s snowfall was, in fact, significantly above average. July 2013 “Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe—scientist,” The Guardian reported. February 2014 “The End of Snow?” asked a New York Times op-ed headline, talking about declining snowpack in Western United States. The past decade overall has marked no significant snowfall decline in the region. July 2017 After then-U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the U.N. Paris Climate Agreement, physicist Stephen Hawking said, according to BBC: “We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius] and raining sulfuric acid.” August 2017 “Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported. It’s been snowing quite as usual in Australia in recent years, weather data indicates. January 2018 "The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," said James Anderson, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry, according to Forbes. Elementary, high school and college students gather in front of the Parliament building in Oslo on March 22, 2019, to rally for the climate and against politicians who they dont think are doing enough to halt climate change. (TOM HANSEN/AFP/Getty Images) July 2020 “The end of snow,” said an Australian Geographic headline. “Could a warming climate be putting Australia’s magnificent alpine landscapes at risk?” There was no particular lack of snow in Australia in either 2021 or 2022. December 2021 The Los Angeles Times ran a story headlined, “A ‘no snow’ California could come sooner than you think.” A few weeks later, the UC Berkely Central Sierra Snow Lab announced that California just had the snowiest December on record. August 2022 “The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives,” Bloomberg reported, referring to predictions of snow disappearance in the western United States. A few months later, Sierra Nevada mountains would see its second snowiest winter on record. March 2023 “Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says,” The Washington Post reported. The ice hasn’t thinned much over the past decade. Since 1979, the summer minima have seen a record low every 5-7 years. Since 2012, however, there has been no new record, the data shows. 4536 Friends Read Free Copy COMMENTS Write a comment... Top Two Comments: Idaho _7 2023-03-25 Oxymoron: Climate Experts Reply Share drwinsmith 2023-03-25 As Trump characterized them : perennial prophets of doom. There is no climate catastrophe or emergency. CO2 is in fact the molecule of life. Atmospheric fertilization due to increased CO2 has led to a greening of the earth. These ‘sky is falling’ chicken littles have been wrong literally 100% of the time, starting with Paul Erlich’s Population Bomb in 1968. They are wrong now. Their fear based lies are the weapon the WEF is using to take the rest of our freedoms and soon, our property. Welcome to The Great Reset. Reply Share 1063 Comments POPULAR NEWS 1 Former Trump Adviser Navarro Found Guilty of Contempt of Congress 2 EXCLUSIVE: FDA Refuses to Provide COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Data to US Senator 3 Legal Experts Weigh in on 'Big Mess' of Georgia Trump Election Case, What to Expect 4 Fulton County DA Accuses Rep. 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2 pointsMembers of the military are government employees.
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2 pointsYou have, at least strongly implied, that the cause of Homeowners Property Insurance policies becoming unavailable from some large insurers (or at least unaffordable) in California was due to relaxation of laws in that state that deal with Business Losses due to theft. Insurance risk is a product of cost, time of coverage, and probability. I maintain the the cause is the increased risk that insurer's take on from major damage due to covered perils that are caused by disasters, such as wind, wildfire, earthquake, and oceanfront erosion. I maintain my stance. WITH FACTS AND RELIABLE SOURCES! Yours? I find it very difficult to "hold water".
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2 pointsSo let me get this straight. You maintain that California's apparent laxity on minor crime on retail businesses is a DIRECT CAUSE of Homeowners Property Insurance company's raising premiums, or even stopping issuing Homeowners Policies in California? Yeah, right... BTW, the perpetrators of the Home Depot event were arrested and charged with Murder, and a host of other crimes.
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2 pointsIndeed Beijing Biden is one busy geriatric stunner so to speak. Below it looks like the automotive demand has tanked to crisis proportions...Quid Pro Quo? Joey say it isn't so! 12 billion the malfeasance is unprecedented...or perhaps traitorous. Biden’s $12 Billion Answer To Converting The Trillion Dollar Auto Industry The supply of electric vehicles is significantly outstripping sales this summer. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Bidens-12-Billion-Answer-To-Converting-The-Trillion-Dollar-Auto-Industry.html
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1 pointWhat are you trying to say? The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Citizens cannot just ignore or suspend that document. The citizens, through their representation, can only amend it. Or, write, and approve, another one.
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1 pointYou do realize that, even in the minimum conditions, wind a solar in Texas produces about the same as FIVE large nuclear units running pedal to the metal, no? And that wind and solar output RELIABLY matches predictions, no? Even during the February, 2021 event! The USA has had sporadic difficulty with "grid stability" since the time of Westinghouse (and Edison), particularly during extreme weather conditions. You want 100% reliable electric power to supply 100% of electric demand, 100% of the time? THAT ain't gonna happen. In February 2021, a winter storm caused widespread power outages across Texas. The outages affected over 4 million customers and lasted for several days. In June 2022, a heat wave caused power outages in several parts of Texas. The outages affected over 100,000 customers and lasted for several hours. In 2023, persistent heat waves required ERCOT to issue public warnings to reduce demand. They probably will do that again, TODAY. Just consider the displacement of fuel consumption, alone, that those sources reliably provide. Are there issues to contend with? Sure! There's not enough wind and solar, coupled with storage, to displace all fossil or nuclear generation. That requires back-up supply availability. Texas has begun to increase demand response, build more transmission, increase the reserve margin. Texas could do more, such as increase interchange capability with the SWPP. Nat gas, Nuclear, and Coal generation is gonna be with ERCOT (and the USA) for quite a while, as long as the fuel can be processed and delivered reliably during extreme weather conditions.
