Posted on 11/10/2023 2:10:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I've heard that from sources I trust far more than TWC.
One problem with the warmer winter, is that it means increased snowfall which is more likely to bring down trees and power lines.
Sometimes You just cant win so it pays to be ready for whatever happens.
These Global warming, climate change idiots...blame it on mankind rather than “naturally occurring”....just like everything in the universe.
I’m the last guy to know the facts about the story and you worked on them yourself so I will defer.
“The wireless infrastructure landscape in the US showed 142,100 cell towers and 452,200 outdoor small cell nodes across the country at the end of 2022.”
327 million cell phones in use in the US.
Charging a phone once a day will use about 0.15 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month and 1.83 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
So maybe my friend wasn’t onto a significant power drain source?
So either way people are going to be without power.
Just darn…
Hey I have a bowl just like that!
Just park your EV in the garage. The resulting fire will generate plenty of heat (for a little while).
That should keep us warm during the winter. Who needs solar or wind power for electricity?
can’t be....the planet is warming up...haven’t they heard??
It’s the cell sites that consume the power. And they say the switch from 4G to 5G will require about twice as much power for the 5 G sites. “According to Huawei data on RRU/BBU needs per site, the typical 5G site has power needs of over 11.5 kilowatts, up nearly 70% from a base station deploying a mix of 2G, 3G and 4G radios.”
Thank you. Someone with more knowledge than I. Not difficult but I salute you anyway.
Great memes. Especially Vin Diesel and Vin Electric.
Thx
Just the thing for a frosty winter morning.
Yup. Ya win some and lose some.
We had a tree take out our power line last winter and were without power for a couple days. We were fortunate to be prepared with a generator, lots of fuel, a wood stove and plenty of firewood.
We stayed warm and few, but missing FR was frustrating.
Especially when the panels are covered with snow, right????
My generator is ready.
-SB
Won't be toasty, but won't freeze neither.
(From msn.com) :" More than half of the U.S. and parts of Canada, home to around 180 million people, could fall short of electricity during extreme cold again this winter
due to lacking natural gas infrastructure, the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) said on Wednesday."
"In its 2023-24 winter outlook, the regulatory authority warned that prolonged, wide-area cold snaps threaten the reliability of bulk power generation
and availability of fuel supplies for natural gas-fired generation.
“Recent extreme cold weather events have shown that energy delivery disruptions can have devastating consequences
for electric and gas consumers in impacted areas,” NERC said."
(My Opinion) : The electric grid is at risk to all above ground catastrophes; not so the natural gas home heating plants, however electric fans are used to circulate ambient air flow
The Biden plan to cast a "War on Petroleum" products (natural gas, gasoline, diesel) has been shown to be remarkably short sighted and unreliable,
especially since we already have a known high reliance on petroleum for home heating and transportation, not to mention of other products like fibers, paints, plastics, etc., etc.
My suggestion, find a relative or a neighbor who heats with wood, and befriend them , ..or get your own wood burner stove for back-up.
Furthermore, when you add up the additional strain on the electric grid by electric vehicles and the need for transportation,
you will see how unreliable and vulnerable this forced electric economy truly is.
P.S. : Biden doesn't live in an all-electric house ..
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