America’s Grid Needs Reliable Power, Not More Muddled Green Schemes

[rangerrebew]

WRITTEN BY KERRY JACKSON ON MAR 15, 2024. POSTED IN NEWS AND OPINION

America’s Grid Needs Reliable Power, Not More Muddled Green Schemes

Does anyone in the California Capitol subscribe to the Washington Post? Maybe someone on the governor’s staff, or an aide to an influential legislator?

Because the Post published an informative story on March 7 that should be passed around to every lawmaker in Sacramento. [emphasis, links added]


Start with the headline (and a link to the cached version of the article):

“​​Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power.”

Turns out there are “vast swaths” of the country at risk of being unable to produce enough electricity.

Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, and Texas are noted as states where “utilities and regulators” are “grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.”

https://climatechangedispatch.com/americas-grid-needs-reliable-power-not-more-muddled-green-schemes/

[Fishrrman]

Someone -- power companies, planners, engineering societies, someone -- should be working up plans for standardized coal-burning power generation plants, with an eye on being able to build and get them into operation quickly in the future.

They're going to be needed when "the muddled green schemes" all collapse at once...

[roamer_1]

For those in the north without access to wood, look into cheap chinese diesel heaters. About 150 bucks will heat 500-1000 ft2, or certainly supplement existing heat. They run very clean, and very cheaply. A gallon of diesel will last a couple days.