Posted on 09/23/2023 9:27:42 AM PDT by CFW
A $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, will help satisfy the Biden administration’s efforts to get everyone into an EV.
It also will help extend the life of a coal-fired power plant.
Resource Adequacy
Panasonic broke ground on the facility last year. The Japanese company was slated to receive $6.8 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, which has been pouring billions into electric vehicles and battery factories as part of its effort to transition America away from fossil fuels.
The Kansas City Star reports that the factory will require between 200 and 250 megawatts of electricity to operate. That’s roughly the amount of power needed for a small city.
In testimony to the Kansas City Corporation Commission, which is the state’s equivalent of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, a representative of Evergy, the utility serving the factory, said that the 4 million-square-foot Panasonic facility creates “near term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective,” according to the newspaper.
As a result, the utility will continue to burn coal at a power plant near Lawrence, Kansas, and it will delay plants to transition units at the plant to natural gas.
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Green now means Scam
Think of the toasted marshmallows and s'mores you and your family can make while huddled around the comforting flames.
It's a bonding event. :O)
I wouldn’t want one of those fire hazards if it was offered to me for free.
My company sold products to a solar factory. I realized what a scam it was when I discovered the factory was 100% on the grid.
This is Easy, Let them build and finish plant, then BAN the use of Coal Produced Electricity. They will abandon the plant then you SEIZE it and sell it for scrap and keep the money.
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But it’ll save the planet.
It always has been. That’s why they were abandoned the first time. It’s why they will be abandoned again.
Once someone sane gets back in to office and cranks up oil production again evs will become a thing of the past
The first electric car actually predates the internal combustion engine.
It was invented in 1832
Maybe a few of these would be better.
And no matter how much evidence you give to the Left...Orange Man Bad....Pres Trump was controlled by the Chinese/Russians....Pres Trump was a foreign asset
The left projects their faults on others.
See Biden as example a
Go cat Go ,LOL
Government imposed solutions always fail and most often turn out to be unmitigated disasters.
Capitaiism and free markets work except when governments try to use them as tools to advance political agendas.
Our Feral Government has been working hard for over 100 years to manipulate the American economy to push their Socialist/Globalist agenda.
So far the government’s major accomplishments have been to destroy the value of the dollar, hand our wealth and industrial might to foreigners and bankrupt the country.
In doing so they killed individualism and the work ethic and have done their best to push Americans into hate mongering identity groups.
About the only thing the government did fairly well in the past was building the American Military.
Now with their “Woke” agenda and tyrannical power grab they are doing their best to destroy the military and turn it into a tool to push their DEI and sexual deviancy agendas.
Yet, in spite of that dismal record, they seem surprised when they see that normal Americans hate their guts!
So they call us terrorists and find different ways to kill us.
“near term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective,”
AS IN THEY DON’T EXIST!!! But what do they care? They are getting billions in subsidies, mandates, and direct taxpayer cash.
People are starting to discover big diesel gen sets at charging stations all over the country.
Wait! They can have fat people on exercycles powering the generators. They’ll get in shape, earn minimum wage, and power EVs so they can explode every now and then! Win/Win/Win/Win!/Sarc
“Wait! They can have fat people on exercycles powering the generators. They’ll get in shape, earn minimum wage, and power EVs so they can explode every now and then! Win/Win/Win/Win!/Sarc”
Liberal, fat, blue-haired, and tatted ladies have found themselves a new “weight loss” program guaranteed to save the planet while getting in shape. Let’s cheer them on!
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