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What needs to happen now is stop shutting down coal plants, reverse carbon capture and other EPA rules for new natural gas plants, and start building traditional GW scale nuclear plants. I am an advocate for re-powering Palisades nuclear plant in southwest Michigan. The general public hasn’t the slightest clue how close they are to not having affordable, reliable power, and once lost will be extremely difficult to reinstate. There’s going to be a lot of confused and pissed off people. All of this is self-inflicted damage.

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A warning from The Energy Realists of Australia

Around the Western world, subsidised and mandated wind and solar power have been displacing conventional power in the electricity supply. Consequently, most of the grids in the west are moving towards a tipping point where the lights will flicker at nights when the wind is low. This is a “frog in the saucepan” effect and it only starts to worry people when it is too late. Too late for Britain and Germany certainly.

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/

Consider the ABC of intermittent energy generation.

A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.

B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.

C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.

Therefore, the green transition is impossible with current storage technology.

The rate of progress towards the tipping point will accelerate as demand is swelled by AI and electrification at large.

In Australia, the transition to unreliable wind and solar power has just hit the wall, while Britain and Germany have passed the tipping point and entered a “red zone,” keeping the lights on precariously with imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.

The meteorologists never issued wind drought warnings and the irresponsible authorities never checked the wind supply! They even missed the Dunkelflautes that must have been known to mariners and millers for centuries!

https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf

There is an urgent need to find out why the meteorologists failed to warn us about wind droughts and why energy planners didn’t check. Imagine embarking on a major irrigation project without forensic investigation of the water supply including historical rainfall figures.

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/no-gusts-no-glory/

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I'm surprised to see New York in the lowest risk category. I just read Jon Pepper's Hostile Climate. The Manhattan Contrarian and Climate Etc. have been making blog posts about NY's energy incompetence. Does Manhattan have a bunch of stranded LNG tankers docked onshore?

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I believe they're well-stocked in offshore peakers at the moment, but are still vulnerable in winter when it comes to pipelines. Don't quote me on that though.

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I asked my Congrescritter Adam Schifferbrains, my then senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, my California Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, my California State Senator Anthony Portantino, and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, for the comprehensive quantitative end-to-end life-cycle system engineering report about the US energy system, and in particular about our version of Germany's Energiewende failure. Nobody responded even with "I'm sorry, we have no such report." So I wrote "Where Will We Get Our Energy?" Everything quantified. No vague handwaving. 350 bibliographic citations so readers can verify I didn't just make up stuff.

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It appears to me ... humanity requires... Air, Water, and Sun/food... and now Electricity. Electricity is now not a commodity, electricity is a requirement for survival.

The politics of Climate Change 'screwed the pooch" for abundant electricity supply growth. Data Centers and now AI are radically moving the demand curve. Where's the juice? https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/2024-4/ Over the next five years across the Pacific Northwest, significant load growth and changing system dynamics are creating risks for maintaining power system adequacy.

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Have you ever fainted because of heart palps?

Then you will understand me when I say that idiot meters can injure and kill humans inside the dwelling. If I want to really sleep soundly I must turn off my breaker. As it is I am relocating my office due to its proximity to the meter. My ears ring quite constantly, and it takes a full day of being out of emfs for the ears to begin to normalize. We are not meant....

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