Duke Energy Leaders Made Hurricane Florence Worse — Op-Ed from NC WARN

NC Warn (and several newspapers) ^ | Sept 19 2018 | Jim Warren

[moovova]

#MeToo

[cpdiii]

Pure Bravo Sierra.

Click the link below to see 166 years of hurricane history in the United States. Nothing has changed.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E23.html

[Still Thinking]

Well, they certainly “fueled” the argument by keeping liberals from freezing to death. I wonder if there’s some kind of AI electric meter that can divine your political leanings.

[Still Thinking]

[Right Wing Assault]

Duke's methane made the hurricane worse. Not the methane used by hundreds of millions who use it in their gas stoves and furnaces. Cute of them to call it "natural" gas, too, instead of natural gas. Those quotation marks make hurricanes worse, too.

They also forgot to condemn the swamps and cattle.

[Nifster]

These people are insane

[Ozark Tom]

Some giant mosquitoes around Sabine, Texas were worse ever that didn’t retreat from Deet. Louisiana tall-grass marsh has two inch horse flies that beat all others ever encountered.

[Tax-chick]

While science can’t prove Florence was worsened by Duke Energy decision-makers, a reasonable, conservative approach to the crisis (sic) demands ... that people who choose to live at the coast pay property insurance rates based on their risk of loss, rather than dumping the cost on the taxpayer through insurance subsidies or disaster relief.

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

[Vinnie]

As hurricanes go Florence was a minor burp. High pressure systems prevented to from taking its natural northeasterly course.
Article is all BS.

Let’s see, seems every type of electrical power generation other than wind and solar is evil.
What we need to see is a video/pictures of what a solar panel farm would look like to supply the energy for a large city, the backup generation, storage, etc.
Effects on the environment, flora and fauna of the wind turbines sq miles of panels, heat islands they would create.

[Mashood]

It only floods where the Army Corp of Engineers has provided their services.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Monster storm? Pug-lease

Average hurricane strengths have been DECREASING in the past several decades, not increasing.

You have no clue what you’re talking about. Just repeating pablum.

[Dusty Road]

Hate to tell these folks that we don’t vent methane. While we might have an occasional leak from time to time we go to great extremes to contain it. Methane is money! From the well, through the separator, through the treater and even what little goes into the tanks is contained. Most goes from the separator directly into the meter line. What we see as flares burning is being vented but it;s also burning to remove any methane escaping. What they’re not saying in the story is the earth burps and farts methane at an enormous rate whether it’s venting from the soil or bubbling up from the sea floor. Every lake in the US is a producer of methane. One of the largest producers of methane comes from landfills and every town in the US has at least one and some have several. Vent pipes have to be installed to keep pressures from building up and they don’t flare those due to the risk of setting other escaping gasses on fire.

[Don W]

And the Maldives are now underwater, too.

The lies are starting to unravel, yet they keep promoting them...

[IronJack]

How was Florence a “monster storm?”. It was a Cat 1.

[Sgt_Schultze]

How much global greenhouse gas is the “green” industry responsible for? The physical mining for ore is 100% fossil fueled. The transportation of the raw ore to refiners and smelters is 100% fossil fuel reliant. The refining itself is 100% fossil fuel reliant. And the rest of the manufacturing and transport processes are also nearly 100% fossil fuel reliant. The machinery used in ALL these industries was manufactured using facilities 100% reliant on fossil fuel. And what of the electricity all along the way? Mostly fossil fuels reliant.

Considering all the inputs, it’s doubtful that current “green” energy equipment ever generates enough lifetime energy to offset that used in their manufacturing.

[bert]

I drove to Raleigh by Durham on I40 Friday and yesterday.

We saw at least 60_or so power trucks headed home to somewhere

[Popman]

Duke Energy executives bear much of the blame for Hurricane Florence’s devastation.

LOL...how ridiculous...

leftist will believe any BS published...

[PapaBear3625]

Florence hit as just a Category 1. It was not a “monster storm”.

[oldtech]

All sounded like horse hockey to me. Again.

[editor-surveyor]

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Where is the obligatory “BARF ALERT?”
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