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    Default Blackouts possible this summer due to heat and extreme weather, officials warn

    It's going to be a long hot summer. How many Global Warming converts will vote Democratic at the end of it?

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/us/bl...her/index.html
    Blackouts possible this summer due to heat and extreme weather, officials warn
    By Tyler Mauldin, CNN | Posted - May 20, 2022 at 10:04 p.m.

    Extreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle across vast areas of the country this summer, potentially leading to electricity shortages and blackouts, a U.S. power grid regulator said on Thursday. (Frederic J. Brown, AFP,

    ATLANTA — Extreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle across vast areas of the country this summer, potentially leading to electricity shortages and blackouts, a U.S. power grid regulator said Wednesday.

    NERC, a regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation's electrical infrastructure, says in its 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment that extreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle. High temperatures, the agency warns, will cause the demand for electricity to rise. Meanwhile, drought conditions will lower the amount of power available to meet that demand.

    "Industry prepares its equipment and operators for challenging summer conditions. Persistent, extreme drought and its accompanying weather patterns, however, are out of the ordinary and tend to create extra stresses on electricity supply and demand," said Mark Olson, NERC's manager of Reliability Assessments.

    On Thursday, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center called for nearly the entire contiguous United States to experience above average temperatures this summer.

    The power grid is extremely delicate and electricity supply must always meet electricity demand, experts warn. If not, capacity shortfalls can occur. A shortfall is when there is not enough power being generated to meet demand.


    Forced power outages, also known as rolling blackouts, are initiated during these situations — which is what millions of Americans run the risk of seeing this summer — to prevent long term damage to the grid.
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    It’s going to be hot with a chance of blackouts

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/21/polit...-what-matters/
    After millions of Americans went without power due to cold, heat, wildfires and hurricanes last year, we wrote here about the need to pay attention to the power grid.

    This year, blackouts will probably be back
    CNN’s Tyler Mauldin, a meteorologist, wrote this week about a stark warning from NERC, the regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation’s electrical infrastructure.

    In a reliability assessment for the coming summer, NERC predicted that excessive temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle.

    The high temperatures will increase demand for electricity.

    Meanwhile, drought conditions will reduce the amount of power available.

    Bottom line: The US power grid does not react well to extreme temperatures, either cold or heat, but more extreme temperatures are guaranteed because of the climate crisis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    It’s going to be hot with a chance of blackouts

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/21/polit...-what-matters/
    After millions of Americans went without power due to cold, heat, wildfires and hurricanes last year, we wrote here about the need to pay attention to the power grid.

    This year, blackouts will probably be back
    CNN’s Tyler Mauldin, a meteorologist, wrote this week about a stark warning from NERC, the regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation’s electrical infrastructure.

    In a reliability assessment for the coming summer, NERC predicted that excessive temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle.

    The high temperatures will increase demand for electricity.

    Meanwhile, drought conditions will reduce the amount of power available.

    Bottom line: The US power grid does not react well to extreme temperatures, either cold or heat, but more extreme temperatures are guaranteed because of the climate crisis.
    Do you live in the part of Texas that is tapped into the natl. grid?
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Do you live in the part of Texas that is tapped into the natl. grid?
    No. I have a generator and solar panels. Still have a wiring issue, but working on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Do you live in the part of Texas that is tapped into the natl. grid?
    There is no national grid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    There is no national grid.
    Just when I think I've seen the most fucked in the head right wingers, you come along.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Port Tack View Post
    Just when I think I've seen the most fucked in the head right wingers, you come along.
    Into the Night is a sock for gfm7175 and IBDaMann. Follow his signature links to his "forum" for insights into the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic.

    Instead of trying to remember/type his names all the time I just call him Sybil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    It’s going to be hot with a chance of blackouts

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/21/polit...-what-matters/
    After millions of Americans went without power due to cold, heat, wildfires and hurricanes last year, we wrote here about the need to pay attention to the power grid.

    This year, blackouts will probably be back
    CNN’s Tyler Mauldin, a meteorologist, wrote this week about a stark warning from NERC, the regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation’s electrical infrastructure.

    In a reliability assessment for the coming summer, NERC predicted that excessive temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle.

    The high temperatures will increase demand for electricity.

    Meanwhile, drought conditions will reduce the amount of power available.

    Bottom line: The US power grid does not react well to extreme temperatures, either cold or heat, but more extreme temperatures are guaranteed because of the climate crisis.
    There is no national power grid. The SDTC is not the U.S., and is has not been a State of the Union for many years now.
    Apparently you don't seem to realize that temperatures in the northern hemisphere are warmer in the summer than the winter.

    'Climate crisis' is a meaningless buzzword.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    There is no national power grid. The SDTC is not the U.S., and is has not been a State of the Union for many years now.
    Apparently you don't seem to realize that temperatures in the northern hemisphere are warmer in the summer than the winter.

    'Climate crisis' is a meaningless buzzword.
    There are 3 power grids in the continental US, east, west and Texas. Four if you want to count the one for Alaska. Now you go ahead and say something fucking stupid, everyone else can google "what are the 3 power grids in the U.S. if you don't believe me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Port Tack View Post
    There are 3 power grids in the continental US, east, west and Texas. Four if you want to count the one for Alaska. Now you go ahead and say something fucking stupid, everyone else can google "what are the 3 power grids in the U.S. if you don't believe me.
    Making up numbers and using them as data is a fallacy, dude.

    Four is not several thousand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Making up numbers and using them as data is a fallacy, dude.

    Four is not several thousand.
    Who the fuck ever said there were several thousand?

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    We are not to mention that the grid needs something like $2 trillion in investment, and that we dont have enough electric production capacity, nor that there is a big push for intermittent energy production.

    Its global warmings fault, because it cant be our leaders fault.
    "Everywhere America goes it spreads war, misery, and destruction."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    We are not to mention that the grid needs something like $2 trillion in investment, and that we dont have enough electric production capacity, nor that there is a big push for intermittent energy production.

    Its global warmings fault, because it cant be our leaders fault.
    Let's fill the country with a couple million illegal aliens to provide energy and gasoline for. That is a great idea!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    Let's fill the country with a couple million illegal aliens to provide energy and gasoline for. That is a great idea!!!
    "If they were trying to destroy America what would they be doing differently?"
    "Everywhere America goes it spreads war, misery, and destruction."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    "If they were trying to destroy America what would they be doing differently?"
    I can't think of a single thing
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