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America Needs More Gas Power, Not Wind, AEP!
rangerrebew:
America Needs More Gas Power, Not Wind, AEP!
October 3, 2025
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
China’s Useful Idiot is peddling his fake news again!
From the Telegraph:
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The US is in danger of losing the global AI race for the most banal and careless of reasons: it is critically short of electricity.
The country is sitting on a neglected pre-modern grid that cannot meet surging power demand for data centres, cryptocurrencies, the reshoring of semiconductor plants and the proclaimed revival of the American industrial base.
Nor can it meet the needs for air conditioning through hotter and more humid summers. While we all talk about AI, the chief cause of rising electricity use last year was for cooling.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/america-needs-more-gas-power-not-wind-aep/
rangerrebew:
--- Quote from: rangerrebew on October 07, 2025, 08:01:15 am ---
China’s Useful Idiot is peddling his fake news again!
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Or paid lackey? :pondering:
Bigun:
--- Quote ---America Needs More Gas Power,...
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And MUCH more nuclear!
DefiantMassRINO:
Aeroderivative gas turbines, coal with oxygen-assisted combustion, nuclear (uranium, thorium), and geothermal are all needed for reliable, secure, efficient electricity generation.
Hydro could be a larger part of the mix if they figure out how to co-exist with fish migration. Hydro can be susceptible to droughts, so, it needs to part of a mixed portfolio of available generation options.
Solar and wind make sense as supplemental electricity generation sources that can reduce fossil fuel consumption around the margins or for isolated areas with an already high cost of electricity.
There is no "ONE" solution. It requires a mix for security, reliability, and risk management.
The_Reader_David:
--- Quote from: Bigun on October 07, 2025, 09:44:31 am ---And MUCH more nuclear!
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Yup. I was going to write America needs more nuclear, gas and wind power, with priority in that order.
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