You will have to live like this
Posted on 10/20/2023 10:43:33 AM PDT by george76
Gore and Kerry are deeply saddened.
The Clueless are Clueless about the REAL world
Those scarce and expensive transformers are made in China.
I work for an electrical utility, and I can tell you that there are a couple of huge obstacles besides the actual means of generating “green” power, which also presents its own issues:
1. Getting generation connected to the grid takes years. There is a huge bottleneck in this process, called the generator interconnection backlog, and it is a real problem. The article touched on this, but I wanted to emphasize this reality.
2. We lack the means to transfer power to the scale that will be necessary to electrify everything. Power lines are like highways—they can only handle so much traffic before they become congested. Congestion causes lines to literally melt, which can cause fires and blackouts. We need more of these “energy highways”, but they are extremely expensive to build and take a long time to get done.
“possibly putting governments’ climate goals at risk”
There isn’t much that hacks me off as much as that. Why the HELL should we worry about meeting some stupid, arbitrary, “goal” set by marxist / progressive governments that are addressing a non-problem?
There is nothing better than putting most “government goals at risk” because we clearly do not have an elected, representative government looking after our interests. They farm these things out to the unelected administrative state that runs roughshod over our interests.
A couple billion.
No, my understanding is that the goal is to bring the population of the world back down to 500,000.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
Baby steps....
That is why Germany has re-opened two of its coal powered electricity plants.
There is not enough renewable energy to run the electrified trains.
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