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It is precisely this fundamental principle, of the abuse of authority against subjects (the colonists) that led to the successful American Revolution - one that was fought for with arms, and paid for with blood, I remind viewers. Was George III a tyrant, with his Tea Tax? Well, no matter how you slice it and dice it, he sure was tone-deaf. Kinda reminds me of Nancy Pelosi (although you could credibly argue that all politicians in California are tone-deaf).

As @ORO said it's not about Trump, it's about what he stands for. It's about the fact Trump is the only one to stand up to the entrenched establishment and their anti American , anti Constitution rule while enriching themselves. Trump started it. Now it's time to find dynamic leaders to finish what so many forgotten people want. That's 75 million+ people. You think that 75 million Trump voters are fanatics ? Please.

Her work has a small error while the CO2 models have an error so large that the prediction's confidence interval is larger than the phenomenon itself. Climate science in the political sphere is purely a fictional fancy to justify policy goals of extremely narrow moneyed interests and of China, which has an interest in everyone else consuming less fossil fuels so that it can buy them more cheaply. Obviously all in the anthropogenic climate change (warming) money grubbing industry would do their best to hide this work and get it discredited. "climate change" is a political product, not a scientific one. Had it explained any prior historical episodes of temperature fluctuations over decades in the past then one could take it seriously. As it is now, its models are no better than a coin toss as to whether the next year or decade will be warmer. The only reason the models fit the data is that the data is generated by the same model to fill in holes in the historical measurements. Take out the calculated temps and there is no fit. Take out the locations where measurements were taken under a particulate cloud for a century but clean air efforts brought particulate levels back down then you have accounted for most of the measurements justifying the theory. In a word, in as much as global warming is real in the data, it is a creation of clean air regulations. We don't have long to wait for her work to prove out.

When power and law is exercised unequally against one side it is tyranny. Tyranny requires revolution to overcome it. Those that condone tyranny are useful idiots.

I bought a nice house on Mid-Coast Maine, on Penobscot Bay, a place where I can do some nice sailing. It used to be an Inn, so it has lots of bedrooms and bathrooms, great for hosting parties. I will put in a new commercial kitchen, and expand the footprint even more to include a new library. the new manufacturing plant goes in down the street. I just don't see dealing with the Leftists in Vermont as a path forward, too many obstacles. And, I am getting seriously old, there is only one Last Hurrah left in these old bones. We all die eventually, and I am not partial to Cloning! IN LIFE, YA GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM, AND WHEN TO FOLD 'EM. Oh, well.

Unfortunately, Ward's observation is accurate. Whether you like the guy or dislike him, whether you think he was great or was marginal in execution as President, for w3hatever reason including his own personality and the membership of the Congress set against him (the "deep State problem"), it remains unalterable and undeniable that Mr. Trump was consistently, irrationally, being hampered and hindered by political opponents who cared not of the damage they wreaked on the country. So, yes, Mr. Trump was (and is) the victim of fascism. Before ideologues jump up and down in denunciations of this post, please remember: (1) I am NOT an American, and (2) as a Monarchist, I remain quite indifferent to internal US politics. I try to look at it from an objective distance. Cheers to all.

That's priceless! And so right!

Just guessing here, I guess that the Atty General is looking for Russian cash. I suspect that a money-laundering or racketeering charge is in the offing. Income-tax stuff in New York does not really go anywhere. If Donald get whacked with a RICO indictment then he has serious problems. And yes, in my view it is all a put-up job, designed to inflict political hurt. Makes the City look like Rangoon. Ugh.

Tom and Jerry are migrants from Brooklyn! And yes, they liked to espouse Leftist ideas, but not so much when it cam to the ice-cream business. First up, they were not exactly fair-trade when it came to purchasing raw milk. What they did was classify any milk the dairymen sought to sell as "second grade," a commodity grade of milk that commanded much lower prices. But most of the milk bought was in fact first-quality, stuff for which there was no home because of massive over-production. SO, it is not as if the ice-cream plants "shared the wealth," they paid a low-grade price for high-grade stuff. Then, when all was said and done, the boys sold out to Unilever. Now, admittedly Unilever is a Dutch company, but that outfit applies tough ideas towards the communities it sits in and towards the workforce. Not like Unilever managers brought in from outside were gentle at the helm. But Unilever offered the boys a big pile of dough, so our socialist pair went capitalist in a great big rush. Do the Boys walk the walk, or simply talk the talk? You tell me. So much for the migrants from Brooklyn. P.S. I am giving up on the place and moving on to another State. Not going anywhere here. Cheers.

Texas Blocks Utility Companies From Billing Customers or Disconnecting for Nonpayment After Sticker Shock Outrage (Excerpts) Texas Blocks Utility Companies From Billing Customers or Disconnecting for Nonpayment After Sticker Shock Outrage - Abbott called an emergency meeting with legislators on Feb. 20 after reports of many customers receiving bills for thousands of dollars for just a few days’ electricity service. In Texas’s highly competitive deregulated electricity market, some retail providers offer customers prices pegged to daily wholesale rates or other forms of indexing. Under normal circumstances, this can mean lower prices, but after the cold snap squeezed grid capacity and led to a dramatic run up in wholesale electricity prices, some households have been hit with huge bills. Ty Williams, a Dallas-area resident, saw his monthly bill soar from $600 last month to nearly $17,000 so far this month, according to local news outlet WFAA. “How in the world can anyone pay that? I mean you go from a couple hundred dollars a month … there’s absolutely no way‚ it makes no sense,” said Williams, who added that the bill came from Griddy, an electricity retailer that pegs its prices to wholesale rates. Griddy even urged its customers to switch providers in the short-term to avoid sticker shock. “If the forecast and prices are too extreme for you right now, we understand if you want to switch providers,” Griddy stated in a blog post. “While we value you as a member, we want what is best for your wallet and family even more.”

And virtually every vendor of electric vehicles. And those massive Caterpillar dump trucks used at mining sites have no brakes. They have several hundred HP motors for each wheel and reverse polarity for braking. In fact back in school I had a prof who went through the math of why it could not be done with standard friction braking, period. I'll leave that as an exercise for the student.

There is no doubt about it: Donald J. Trump has a long arm. And a solid base that, as Mr. Biden stumbles, he can build on. What Ms. Haley and Mr. McConnell failed to recognize is that the 75M people who voted for Mr. Trump haven't--for the most part--changed their minds. They voted for Mr. Trump well aware of his warts. Those votes were cast to 1) keep a thumb on China and Iran, 2) keep the country out of war unless attacked, 3) drain the swamp of creatures both within the Democrat Party and the Republican Party. As Ben Sasse simply can't understand, that will take one "weird dude."

I think I can shed some light on this or at least point you in the right direction. When gas encounters a pressure drop (usually in a control valve), the temperature also drops. This is referred to as the JT Effect (Joule-Thompson: a 100 psi pressure drop results in a temperature drop of 6-8 degrees F). At the same time, liquids can drop out of natural gas after a pressure drop. So with a drop in temp, these liquids can freeze and cause valves to fail. This is a normal thing that operators have to deal with on a consistent basis in the winter, usually with pipe insulation, heat tape, methane injection or catalytic heaters. This storm just made the problem so much worse because operators weren't prepared for it to be this cold. Attached is a picture of a frozen valve. The valve body is completely covered in ice. Hopefully that helps!

Ward, please don't confuse me with the quotes that were taken from a certain Resignation Letter from the leader of the Burlington, VT, Republican Party. I had nothing to do with that Letter, did not ghost-write it, do not claim I ascribe to it, and have nothing to do with the author. I copied and pasted the bulk of it merely to show that dissension in the ranks extends even to this sleepy part of the nation. As to the veracity of the representations, that burden is for the writer to bear. All that said, everyone here seems to forget just how far to the Right the current Republican party has shifted. I would point to the 1952-1960 time bracket where General Dwight Eisenhower was President. A key plank of his was universal single-payer health care, a program that goes far left of what Hillary Clinton contrived. By "single-payer" it was meant that the Federal Government would foot the bills through the general tax revenue, all services without any charge or even co-pay to anybody in the nation. Thus, no health-insurance industry (and no premiums). That was mainstream Republicanism back in the day. Although I have not studied the Eisenhower proposals in depth, I think I can safely conclude that it intended that there would be no fee-for-service. I.e. all physicians, nurses, everybody, would be a public servant, paid a straight salary. Hard to imagine republicans today agreeing with that specific value set. Just saying.

Well, if there is a serious case to be made for money-laundering or racketeering, he needs to face the RICO music just like any other private citizen. I hope and pray that he was/is smart enough not to do any of that, but who knows. I would hazard another guess: If they looked at the Biden Family half as hard as they've examined the Trump Family, we'd be out of a president. Down to Harris. So ironically, I find myself hoping they don't look all that hard at Biden. As piss-poor as I think Mr. Biden is as president, I truly think he might be the second coming of FDR compared to Ms. Harris. Again, just guessing . . .

If they find anything, IF, it most likely won't be anything any other New York businessman is just as guilty of: guesstimating a higher value to lenders while guesstimating a lower value to the tax man. Pay the penalty, pay the taxes, maybe suspend his real estate license, and hit the links in Florida the day after. We shall see since that Dem AG isn't going away until he can at least have his 15 minutes, as Jan alludes to, and can claim some form of victory where others have failed. And he may yet fail himself.

The fellow who wrote his resignation was only a member of the Republican Party in name, not in soul. He uses all the cliches of the far left (dog whistle, selling our grandchildren's future, voter suppression, etc.). In Vermont this fellow may be a staunch Republican but I can assure you that where I live he would be "one of the crazies" on the other side. In saying that "we should work to make Vermont affordable for everyone," he basically espouses a socialist agenda--because his statement blatantly fights with the entire concept of capitalism. Suppressing the natural rise in real estate, groceries, and snow machines is socialistic. Helping "the most vulnerable among us" is a Christian attitude that most conservative Republicans support. I would imagine that the Muslims in Vermont support it as well, and perhaps even the atheists. I'm sorry, but this guy is about as much a poster-child for the current Democrat Party as you can get. He may be a hell of a guy, but he clearly is not a conservative Republican in the conventional definition. He sounds to me much more of a flip-flopper due to the emergence of a rough fringe element in the Republican Party, someone whose friends and contemporaries influenced, better to be on the winning team. Social liberalism in the face of fiscal conservatism is fine with me. But you're right, the progressive extremists are so far to the left that they're way past being just social liberalists. We're headed straight down the gullet of socialism . . . in my view much due to the willingness of the many to acquiesce to the rigid beliefs of the few. In this case, a weak person with malleable belief systems easily morphed into one or the other. There is a cancer growing in America. If this fellow got under my skin I'd take him to the dermatologist.

Respectfully, Jan, I disagree with your statement. I have no idea about Burlington, but Vermont is the home of Bernie and the State showed a true love for Hillary, even more love for Barack, and apparently leans by far to the Left. Those are known facts. Not a secret. Now, starting with Barack, the Democrats began their main strategy to bring the look and feel of a reversal of perceived racism and the hopeful harvest of the majority of the black community. That strategy then called for the extension of the Obama admin with a woman named Hillary. That Donald Trump thwarted that effort and did not allow Hillary to continue on with the strategy, and more, crossed a line with mainstream high level bureaucrats and tech moguls alike. Tech moguls, for their part in the preparations of the larger Democrat strategy, purchased and transformed the 5 major news media companies in America over the last decade, give or take. In fact, the Democrats, and you know this, were so pissed off that Donald Trump, of all people(!), could get in the way of their grand strategy that they commenced calls to the Republican Party and Republican Voters to oust him before he could be nominated. Once nominated, they commenced calling for impeachment before the man was elected. Investigations into supposed collusion (since that sounds so cynical) with that old chestnut "Russia" (just to ensure all Americans knew he was a traitor of the worst sort) started, yes, you know it, before he was even elected or sworn into office. And then those so-called investigations continued, along with the tech moguls promulgating every sordid but false detail, for the entirety of his administration, capped off by one of the strangest 4 year assaults on a U.S. President that I can remember, culminating in the last year from The Twilight Zone with plagues, lockdowns, crashed economies, bankrupt Americans and American small businesses, confusion, and on and on and on. ALL blamed on President Trump; AS IF! Those people are crazy; not me or us! If there are those in Vermont Republican politics that are showing signs of craziness, I think it's to be expected, such has been the unrelenting barrage of bullwhackey that has been hammered on us all. To the article that you show excerpts of: It was said by another commenter that it sounds like a Democrat statement, and I agree with that completely. These last 4 years have shown us repeatedly that the Dems speak with forked tongue, to put it extremely lightly. Saying just the right words but doing the opposite. Doing incredibly bad things, but telling us that they did not (think peaceful demonstrations with burning buildings in the background and elderly people being beaten, not to mention attacks on law enforcement under nefarious pretenses). You may know the Chair that resigned, and I don't doubt you that he is a good man, but if he is not with the Dems then where is he going? He says he's leaving the Republican Party, so where does that leave him? I'm not saying even that he subscribes to what the Dems have been up to for the past 12 years, but I will say that at a minimum he has decided that the (Democrat laid foundations of) instability needs to stop. The crazies that you speak of? Well, I'd say about 75 million other Americans feel pretty crazy watching and living through what the Left has put us through over the last 12 years, especially the last 4, and sure as hell the last one! So, call me crazy, but I ain't buying what your comment is selling. Respectfully, of course.

You are ignoring the basic issue, what has CO2 atmospheric intensity have to do with climate? If the answer is little or nothing, then there is no need to turn the economy upside down and drastically reduce the living standards of our poorest people on the basis of an unsupported idea. In the past two years multiple scientific tests and models have come forth from international scientists questioning the value of atmospheric CO2 in explaining global temperature changes. That may threaten the rice bowls of those scientists committed to the CO2 hypothesis, but ignoring the science and calling down drastic political measures which would damage everyone is the the final step to take, not the first. Especially if it is unsupported by science.

Why don't you guys get a room? No, really, start a climate thread and move everything there instead of muddying up this thread? I promise I might come and visit 😊

More politics over bills. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/san-antonio-mayor-texas-bill-electricity-disaster-15970083.php Actually, the "demon's" are the PUC-created "casino" market, and the Generators, not ERCOT. ERCOT needs to do the investigation, find the facts, and make conclusions. NOT the political PUC. I feel ERCOT did an admiral job containing the situation. It could have been worse. MUCH worse! Wait until the citizens see what happens with their Homeowner's Insurance premiums.

Oh, you are correct, forgot about that...yeah, they are AC, as are Tesla's.

It's not destroyed yet, but if it is, it was done by the Party's placeholders. Trump just exposed the rot

Yet those railroad locomotive motormen seem to do it all the time. Saves on the brakes, and on a long grade, it is the only option, or so it would seem.....

Enthalpic, while we have become inured to your vulgar expressions of anti-Americanism, even for you this is a new low.

Mr. Turbguy "... who cares about the wind generation"? You should. As should I and certainly the millions of Texans who have suffered greatly through this event. The talk of wind providing ~40% of Texas' power days earlier while providing virtually nothing in the time of critical need gets right to the heart of the present situation. For those touting the fact that the drop in wind contribution pales in comparison to natgas' numbers, or was within the forecast performance (?) ... that is both factually correct and wildly off the main point of concern. This ferocious struggle for control of the Narrative is unfolding all across the global information sphere as witnessed by the Guardian's 2/22 article "Australia first casualty of big blackout lie" ... an article so bereft of honest reporting that George Orwell must be spinning in his grave. Absent 'out of market' influences (we are forbidden to use the reviled, albeit truthful, terms such as 'subsidies/preferential treatment'), wind and solar would never have achieved the market penetration we see today. The enraged pushback against a repeat of these past few weeks will obviously include identifying those responsible. That wind power is now deemed vulnerable - as evidenced by the hysterical tone of the Guardian - is a long overdue opportunity for misinformed advocates to be seen as being the havoc wreaking agents that they have truly been for decades.

Are you a cement cranium? One entire side of the aisle gets freedom to do and say whatever they want, for years, without rebuke. All the while, the other side (including law abiding citizens) get every single facet of local and national media, tech, and (in some cases) law and legislative strong arm tactics.....but, yeah, tyranny is only against Trump. You're a numpty.

Best wishes for you and canola. Enjoy your sailing and the beautiful Maine coast. One of the most beautiful parts of America.

You do understand how childish your thoughts are, Fascism looking back it is indeed sad to known Trump could have silenced Pelosi or say Shifty Schiff, it is almost laughable how the far left is turning the man Trump into a Martyr. Revolution devours it own children, will history repeat itself?

Alex Jones on public access TV in Austin was "interesting" - Alex Jones on Austin Community Access Television (especially if you were drunk or stoned, which was how I watched DVDs a friend of mine recorded on VCRs years before). Alex Jones these days is all about getting people to buy merch on his store and making advertisement money (not hard to do via revenue sharing). The problem, is, when you're an actor with the same role every day, and you do not change roles (I personally love improv comedy for this reason, it's like adult playing. think like a kid), then you literally become the "entertainment personality". your own personality changes because your (brain) associates it too strongly with your self-identity (ego) or livelihood. Just my two cents. It's easier to dehumanize other people (or whole groups of people) especially via things like radio, tv, or the internet because your mirror neurons can't perceive the other side of how we communicate. We are all monkey see/monkey do in some respect.

Morris : Democrats intimidated Supreme Court into not accepting cases. https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1011090/16

So your bottom line is that the natural gas generators are the bedrock supplier of electricity, wind generation is the fluff in the system....we always knew that in our hearts but were tongue-tied by the fad of political correctness imposed by hysterical global warmers.

The difference is that, with methanol infusion into the production stream in proportion to the amount of the water cut, and with electric mufflers on Christmas tree pipes, NG plants are absolutely reliable. If . . . If NG utility plants aren't once again rendered subservient to trendy energy supply sources. In the history of baseball, there have been only a few pinch hitters of note. Hitting a baseball is a perishable talent and if you don't hit baseballs you lose your skill set. The same is true of energy. As wind took over the grid, lots of very, very expensive NG utility plants became peaker plants, more or less. They also became much less profitable because they were subservient. Well, they're about to become dominant again, at least in the state of Texas. And they'll have everything they need for the vilest winter weather Mother Nature can throw at Texas. I know you're nonplussed at the stubborn refusal of those of us who steadfastly maintain this stance. I'm equally nonplussed by those who think we're somehow creating planetary climate change with natural gas. I profit from wind, but I don't much believe in it as a reliable, sustainable source of energy for the globe. I also profit from NG, but I absolutely believe in it as the energy savior of the whole world. I know you addressed your concerns to Ward Smith, but he sometimes takes long naps and the rest of us have to fill in for him. 😊

Although only indirectly related to LNG, the recent announcement out of the University of Illinois about a breakthrough in the making of methanol at room temperature could possibly have far reaching consequences. While the conversion of methane into LNG form requires enormous expense and technological sophistication, this announced method uses a titanium/copper catalyst and small amounts of electricity to convert gaseous methane into stable methanol form. Like many other potential 'breakthroughs', this may not lead anywhere substantive, but if a practical/affordable process of liquefying methane is doable without going the cryogenic route, the ramifications could be pretty profound.

Sorry Jan, but I respectfully disagree with you and agree with El Gato. Those phrases (misattributed to the other posters because it's too difficult on this mobile device to tell where I am copying quotes) come right out of the DNC handbook! What "racial" unrest exists in freaking Vermont? The use of race to "excite" the base is 100% demoncrat playbook and you know it. Meanwhile they've just "placed" the most racist President in 50 years in office. Xiden is the one who publicly declared that blacks were too stupid to use the internet!! That guy who quit was never a Republican, just a democrat in Republican clothing. A RINO.

Capitalism at its finest? Welcome to the fully unregulated energy market. Texas is indeed the wild west.

It is a real tribute to the designers that their babies actually manage to hold together, despite the screw-ups in the field. I once arrived in Aruba and as the pilot dropped the flaps, there was this big wrench lying in the flap bottom pan, right next to the hydraulic lowering piston. Let that thing jam the piston travel and on climbout when the pilot raises the flaps, only one side will come up. Ouch. I reported it to the pilot (!). Gotta wonder about the sloppiness of the mechanic that left a big tool just sitting there (then again, maybe the rest of his tool-chest bounced out on the way down). Oh, well. Always the human factor lurking out there.

You've got the makings of an excellent thread title right there. It merits its own discussion rather than commingled with this disaster. Remember, this temp was an extreme outlier. It was 73 in Austin yesterday, which is pretty normal for there right now.

It ain't just Texas folks! Look around. Minnesota had the same thing

Just so you are aware of it, railroads have switched over to AC traction motors. I suspect, but do not know for certain, that the motivation was to get out from underneath having to clean commutators and replace brushes, admittedly an awkward job on some hefty motor underslung on a wheel truck..... Analogously, the GM Volt auto apparently uses an AC traction motor and complex power electronics to set it up for regenerative braking. Looks like the traditional DC motor is headed the way of the Dodo bird. Oh, well.

Your segment from the letter sounds exactly like a Democrat press release. So the question is, what is your definition of an extremist? To the Press, it's anybody right of Romney To the rest of America, David Duke and beyond. This gent sound like a Rino and not a true conservative, and therein is the problem in the Party and for Teunp supporters. The Republican Party has too many politicians who only take care of them selves and don't listen to the people. Trumps actually listened to the people and didn't just gaslight them, like most do,

For DC systems (traction motors generating into resistive loads), it works fine. That's the primary reason the Union Pacific provides a diesel loco on steam excursions. Dynamic braking, to save wear and tear on the steam loco's brakes (which are apparently expensive to replace). Heck, ANYTHING on a steam loco is expensive... I think this tread needs to be split up.

Gerry, this is all true. And the dissension and debate within the Republican Party and the stalwarts for Trump and the mainstream Republicans is rocking even the staid Vermont part of the Party - where the Party State Chair is a lunatic woman who cannot keep her composure (unfortunately) and rails against the Governor (who is an exceptionally decent man, I get along really well with him), and the City of Burlington Republican Chair who has now quite publicly resigned, declaring that the State party has been hijacked by the crazies. I scarf a portion of the Letter of Resignation just to give you a flavor of how far the dissension reaches, into the backwoods of rural Vermont: --------------------------------- The unfortunate truth is that the Vermont Republican Party has now been hijacked by far-right extremists who have attached themselves (and thereby the party) to a dangerous crusade against the basic foundations of American democracy. Rather than doing the hard and necessary work of improving Vermonters’ lives and engaging constructively to move our state forward, they would rather embrace the easy answers of bigotry, divisiveness and destruction. They have undermined our institutions and have abandoned the decency and respect which have allowed our democracy to function for centuries. At some point, we all must ask ourselves whether we can continue to sacrifice our principles and morals by embracing unbridled populism and division. If Vermont Republicans wish to be seen as the party of values, as they so long have been, then they must recognize the moral imperatives of the moment and abandon the racism, recklessness and radicalism that have driven us to become a party so unrecognizable to many of its proudest and longest-serving members. ............. We should work to make Vermont affordable for everyone, not just for those with the resources and privilege to buy their way in, with a particular focus on meeting the needs of the most vulnerable among us. We should advocate for a balanced budget, not undermine our funding system by slashing revenues and expecting working families to pick up the tab. We should be proud to stand for racial equity, not fan the flames of civil unrest by spewing racist dog whistles and supporting the elements of white supremacy found within Vermont communities. We should work to conserve our precious environment by taking meaningful, sensible action to fight climate change, rather than selling our grandchildren’s future to the highest-bidding corporate interests. We should stand for individual freedoms by working to ensure those freedoms for all citizens, not to undermine civil rights through voter suppression and the use of violent, discriminatory policing. Since it is abundantly clear that current party leadership is determined to destroy the party’s integrity and electoral future for their own personal gain, I see no way for me to stay true to my own principles while remaining within the party. That is why, with great sadness, I am also announcing my departure from the Vermont Republican Party. ----------------------------------------------- Definitely food for thought. While The Donald started out with a ton of great ideas, he has gotten bogged down in the politics of the self. And that leads to the Dark Side of the Force.

"More than 2.5 degrees by 2600", it's right there in black and white. Read the abstract, it is right there, you cannot miss it, https://nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3 In the Responses section below the article the author discusses the retraction issues and shows how they were not relevant to the article. It was weird that she was not given the opportunity to refute the criticisms before the article was retracted by the journal, not by the author. Note, this article passed peer review before publication, so there is no justification for retracting on the basis of some work published AFTER this article was published. That is retrospective review, which is entirely out of order for any journal.

According to the author, this discussion is not relevant to her model, it was a side issue which does not have any effect on her calculations, and therefore should not be any grounds for retracting the article. She registered her disagreement with the retraction and complained about the violation of standard article procedure in this process. She was not given any opportunity to amend her article or to discuss the supposed problems with it.

Supreme Court Justice Thomas delivered a strong rebuke after court turned down and refused to hear two ligit Pennsylvania Election related cases. https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1011008/16

It was the loss of that doubling that is the failure, not the doubling itself.

Coast down, 45 minutes, or longer or shorter. Depends on condenser vacuum. Nuke units are more massive, but run slower (1800 RPM v 3600 RPM) for 60 HZ systems. Either way, the last 20 RPM seems to take FOREVER! Heavy duty gas turbine(s) can start and reach full load in say, 10 minutes (aeroderivatives, which are basically aircraft engines with a "load wheel", much faster say 30 seconds). Bringing the bottoming steam cycle up adds the final amount of time.

Really interesting but if you follow the links and watch the webinair on youtube it really gets more interesting, like Electric bill in UK could go from GBP 1,200 PA to 5,000!!!!, if Scotland goes independent they will be competing for electric South of the border so price wars. Reliability issues more specific to offshore wind which defaults to high OPEX and justfication to continue operation is breached, more in England then Scotland, politicians dont like to admit they got it wrong (how true is that!! Hahaha). Pension funds who think placing there good money on green is a safe bet, wind will crash and the consumers take the hit (no change there), hence the purpose of an SPV. That professer is a switched on cookie.

Untrue. If you've got a gigawatt of power you don't just shunt all that to ground at the touch of a button. Well, you can, but I don't want to be anywhere around when you do. Not relevant to this discussion but a good meme nonetheless.