“Electricity usage papers, please.”
Posted on 05/19/2023 4:15:57 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage
The greatest energy folly of all time… Germany restricts electricity supply while ramping up demand! Rationing unavoidable...While leaders demand citizens quickly switch over to electric mobility and heat pump systems, thus placing ever huger demands on the power grid, they are reacting by shutting off nuclear and fossil fuel power plants...if it’s January and -10°C outside, your heat pump may be remotely switched off. Have blankets ready...As compensation for the affected consumers, it is envisaged that they will receive a reduction in their grid fees.
We’re next.
TVA had rolling blackouts this last winter, in some particularly cold weather - something the entity has NEVER done in its 90 year history. This was due to insufficient supply to meet demand.
Yup...they want to own all the utilities...and you will obey...
Will we be required to be happy? 😝
Don’t gas stoves still work after the juice is cut off? Why, yes. Yes they do.
“Electricity usage papers, please.”
The rulers say they need the ability to shut off your heat pump and EV charger to protect the power grid but they could just as easily do it for other reasons.
Hold on tight to every bit of freedom and liberty that you have or they will be taken away from you little by little.
Not only did she deliberately destroy the German energy grid, she deliberately flooded the country with a million young Muslim males who grew up in Third World countries.
“Don’t gas stoves still work after the juice is cut off? Why, yes. Yes they do.”
I wouldn’t bet that the newer ones do...
Just another day in Kalifornia
“Don’t gas stoves still work after the juice is cut off?”
Yes, that is why they want them banned, and also why I have one.
One thing they have been strangely silent on is propane. Given that it is used mostly in flyover county, I am surprised they haven’t floated a full ban yet.
Let them sit in the darkness and thank Jao Bai-din for blowing up their pipeline to support Zelensky and his globalist comrades.
Don’t worry Germans. As you’re shivering in the darkness, Gaia will be pleased by your sacrifice.
Though she will probably demand a further sacrifice from you - namely, that you give up meat too.
But that is OK, everyone needs to switch to electric cars!
Only the stove top, not the oven.
Indeed. If electricity got sketchy in the rural areas but stayed solid in the city areas there would be a lot of migration to the cities I imagine.
Eventually there would be so few rural people it wouldn’t make sense to keep the lights on out there.
Here's how I handled it. It won't work for everybody, but it might for you since you live in a similar climate. As soon as Brandon signed his EO's to limit natural gas production I started doing the math on producing my own power with solar and had the Phase I of my project installed in May of 2021. After owning it half a year I liked it enough to do Phase Ia, which was convert my two natural gas appliances to electric. In May of 2022 I had the data of how will my solar produced each day of each month, and it had provided 58.5% of all the power we needed for the year, within the range I predicted (50% to 60%).
So I implemented Phase II, which is what I wanted all along but didn't want to go all in until I tested it with a smaller project. I doubled my solar (now 20kW) and inverter capacity (now 18kW continuous power), tripled by battery storage (now 92kWh), and, since it was time to replace my wife's old crossover car anyway, bought a crossover EV. Owned the EV since June (11 months) and the solar upgrade was completed at the end of August (8 and a half months ago). I predicted it would produce 80% to 90% of all the power we need across the year (higher in the spring summer and fall, lower in the winter). To date it's produced 75.8% of all the power we need, with the summer months left to go to see how well it performs to finish the year (since the Aug 31 upgrade). I now predict it'll be a little over 80% for the year. (In my initial calculation I didn't anticipate my wife and I putting 24K miles on the EV in the first 11 months of owning it LOL. That obviously created a large power demand than I expected.) No natural gas bills. Almost no gasoline at the pump (we don't drive our ICE pickup nearly as much as we do the EV car). And over the past 12 months our power bills averaged $99.88 (expecting it to go down a little after the summer months of upgraded solar becomes part of the 12 month average). And none of those lowered power bills are from selling power to the grid (I don't do that, but now I'm recently applying for the power sell program because I found a way to do it without making my system shut down automatically if the grid power goes down.)
None of that solar or EV saves the world from some fake warmageddon. Nor should they be forced onto people (my system wouldn't work as well for most people). But in some use cases like ours it allows our family to be almost energy independent and gives us the kind of energy security as a family that we had as as a nation when Trump made our country practically energy independent. When the grid goes down, no problem, my system operates like a whole-house generator anyway. As energy costs go up, eh, bummer but not a show stopper since we buy only 20% of our power anyway.
Bet let’s force everyone to replace gas and diesel with EVs.
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