Posted on 12/09/2021 8:45:10 AM PST by george76
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Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
re: “and emerging technology such as hydrogen power.”
NPR, where are they going to mine that?
I wish more than anything that one of these CEO’s Grows up and pulls a John Galt and SHUTS down the Plant and Permanently Disables it and WALKS AWAY leaving just a Sign to call the Sierra Club for Electricity
Many left wing climate activists oppose hydro power as well.
Everything I've seen about hydrogen says its a net-negative. You need to put in a large amount of energy to create and store the hydrogen.
I think the central-planners' notion is - you have solar and wind which have strong peaks and troughs of energy production. What do you do with the extra energy produced on warm, sunny days by wind and solar? you send that power to make hydrogen, where it can be (in theory) stored for use later, when the sun isn't shining, and the wind isn't blowing.
Or you just use coal, which is cheap, and can mined anytime, and be stored anywhere, in any conditions.
I left the state in 2020....was invaded by Californians in the early 1990s and took over..an example of a semi red state turning deep blue...
Yes the political correct group vs the political need taxes group. Bring more popcorn!
Coal is making a comeback this year as high natural gas prices incentivize more coal use in electricity generation..
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/US-Coal-Is-Making-A-Transitory-Comeback.html
BUT, the solar and wind power is REQUIRED to be backed up by RELIABLE energy.
Buy a generator for your home before the rush.
Pay more, and we’ll be told the move didn’t accomplish nearly enough after it’s done, and we’ll have to guess what, pay more.
EXCEL is owned by the public.
I mean - all of this thinking is starting to wear me out...
They’re planning on switching us to the smart meters too (XEL in the TX panhandle). Imagine what the envitro’s can get them to do with that.
We live in an outlying area that loses power frequently sometimes for days at a time. We and all of our neighbors have backup generators. Many of us have backup generators for our backup generators. Fortunately our neighborhood has natural gas which currently costs less than a third of what it costs to power a generator with gasoline or propane and much less than diesel as well. But even with natural gas when the power goes out depending on your load and the efficiency of your generator it still costs two to three times as much as when we are billed for electricity.
Minneapolis-based monopoly - Excel - recently got permission for a massive $2.5 billion fuel-switching scam to move its Colorado rate payers away from base-load, reliable .. in favor of not reliable , ugly , bird killing wind mills.
Xcel is seeking a 10.5% return ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3979295/posts
Silly. They probably plan to capture all the hydrogen by boiling water. The fidiots in Nevaduh have done the requisite 2 votes to allow the Nevada Revsed Statutes addition to put in place all power in the state be provided by “renewables”. 50% by 2035 and all in by 2050. Uh, yeah. Sounds like NVNRG will be buying some out of state power. People are so stoopid. Sounds nice? Vote yes.
At last count approximately 95% of the Hydrogen produced in the USA came from converting a Kilo of Natural Gas into 1/3 Kilo of Hydrogen.
Not really green.
Hydrogen power. Great. Why didn’t I think of that. Use technology that requires more energy to produce the hydrogen than it will ever produce by burning it. OH WAIT... MASSIVE government subsidies. Carry on.
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