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    Default Warning: BLACKOUTS, Doubling OUTAGES, Decaying Transmission Grid no longer reliable

    "Power outages over the last six years have more than doubled in number compared to the previous six years, according to a Reuters examination of federal data. ...

    America’s antiquated electric infrastructure – a task some industry experts say requires more than $2 trillion. The current network of transmission wires, substations and transformers is decaying with age and underinvestment ...

    The U.S. Department of Energy found that 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old in its last network-infrastructure review in 2015. Lines typically have a 50 year lifespan. The average age of large power transformers, which handle 90% of U.S. electricity flow, is more than 40 years. Transformer malfunctions tend to escalate at about 40 years ...

    Americans will use 40% more electricity by 2050 with widespread EV adoption. ...

    more wind and solar power to the creaky U.S. grid. That would exacerbate the transmission network’s challenges because of the inherent unreliability of these renewable sources. Unlike coal, for example, wind and sunshine can’t be stored for ready use in power emergencies. ... "

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates...electric-grid/

    It's a long article so I have just posted some of the highlights.

    Clearly the aging U.S. electric grid is falling apart at a time when anti-human, climate doomsayers are trying to overload it.
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    I wouldn’t worry too much about it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    "Power outages over the last six years have more than doubled in number compared to the previous six years, according to a Reuters examination of federal data. ...

    America’s antiquated electric infrastructure – a task some industry experts say requires more than $2 trillion. The current network of transmission wires, substations and transformers is decaying with age and underinvestment ...

    The U.S. Department of Energy found that 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old in its last network-infrastructure review in 2015. Lines typically have a 50 year lifespan. The average age of large power transformers, which handle 90% of U.S. electricity flow, is more than 40 years. Transformer malfunctions tend to escalate at about 40 years ...

    Americans will use 40% more electricity by 2050 with widespread EV adoption. ...

    more wind and solar power to the creaky U.S. grid. That would exacerbate the transmission network’s challenges because of the inherent unreliability of these renewable sources. Unlike coal, for example, wind and sunshine can’t be stored for ready use in power emergencies. ... "

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates...electric-grid/

    It's a long article so I have just posted some of the highlights.

    Clearly the aging U.S. electric grid is falling apart at a time when anti-human, climate doomsayers are trying to overload it.
    In creased use of renewable also increases the unreliability of the power grid because it can't simply be turned on in the dark or when there is no wind.
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    Texas)(Public Utility Commission Chair Peter Lake on Wednesday warned that Texas’ main power grid is at risk for outages this summer if wind turbines don’t produce enough electricity when it’s needed. He yet again made the case that more on-demand power sources, such as natural-gas-fueled power plants or batteries, need to be built to make the grid more reliable.....“The Texas grid faces a new reality,” Lake said Wednesday. “Data shows for the first time that the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on renewables to keep the lights on.”
    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05...mance-credits/

    If the wind does not blow we are going to be screwed. EV owner wet their panties.
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    Let's hope it happens more and more often in the solid red, right-wing peckerwood states.

    Anything to shut you cousinfuckers the fuck up and keep your stupid lies and bullshit off the internet and out of the public arena.

    Let you shitbags live in the 1800's like you want to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    In creased use of renewable also increases the unreliability of the power grid because it can't simply be turned on in the dark or when there is no wind.
    As long as there are blabbering right-wing idiots, there will always be wind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Let's hope it happens more and more often in the solid red, right-wing peckerwood states.

    Anything to shut you cousinfuckers the fuck up and keep your stupid lies and bullshit off the internet and out of the public arena.

    Let you shitbags live in the 1800's like you want to.
    California already can't provide enough energy for it's citizen you leftist moron but requiring people to but EVs will make it all better right. There is a word that adequately reflects how.bignof a fucking idiot you are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    California already can't provide enough energy for it's citizen you leftist moron but requiring people to but EVs will make it all better right. There is a word that adequately reflects how.bignof a fucking idiot you are.
    Your typically idiotic, shit-spewing rant is as usual, totally irrelevant to what you responded to.

    The more power outages that happen in redneck red states, the better it will be for civilized human beings everywhere because it would shut down right-wingers' access to public forums and social media platforms which will in turn, help clear the air of the stench of the sickening shit you vomit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Let's hope it happens more and more often in the solid red, right-wing peckerwood states.

    Anything to shut you cousinfuckers the fuck up and keep your stupid lies and bullshit off the internet and out of the public arena.

    Let you shitbags live in the 1800's like you want to.
    Mad Homophobe, so much hate

    Beneath their pointy hood of virtual signaling ... Northern White libs Hate "Redneck" States because that's where most of the Blacks and Hispanic Americans live.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Mad Homophobe, so much hate

    Beneath their pointy hood of virtual signaling ... Northern White libs Hate "Redneck" States because that's where most of the Blacks and Hispanic Americans live.
    Northern white libs hate themselves for being northern white libs and based on their behavior it's no wonder why. Everybody else hates them too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Mad Homophobe, so much hate

    Beneath their pointy hood of virtual signaling ... Northern White libs Hate "Redneck" States because that's where most of the Blacks and Hispanic Americans live.
    Wrong.

    Redneck states are hated by liberals because that's where most of the ignorant, backwards rednecks live.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    Northern white libs hate themselves for being northern white libs and based on their behavior it's no wonder why. Everybody else hates them too.
    Yeah, that's why Biden stomped Trump by over 7 million votes.

    BTW you two idiots, re: your "northern white libs" nonsense, I live in Florida.

    The southernmost state in the US and where blacks and Hispanics abound.

    Idiots.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Wrong.

    Redneck states are hated by liberals because that's where most of the ignorant, backwards rednecks live.



    Yeah, that's why Biden stomped Trump by over 7 million votes.

    BTW you two idiots, re: your "northern white libs" nonsense, I live in Florida.

    The southernmost state in the US and where blacks and Hispanics abound.

    Idiots.
    Does that make you more, or less racist?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Does that make you more, or less racist?
    I report.

    You decide.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    "Power outages over the last six years have more than doubled in number compared to the previous six years, according to a Reuters examination of federal data. ...

    America’s antiquated electric infrastructure – a task some industry experts say requires more than $2 trillion. The current network of transmission wires, substations and transformers is decaying with age and underinvestment ...

    The U.S. Department of Energy found that 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old in its last network-infrastructure review in 2015. Lines typically have a 50 year lifespan. The average age of large power transformers, which handle 90% of U.S. electricity flow, is more than 40 years. Transformer malfunctions tend to escalate at about 40 years ...

    Americans will use 40% more electricity by 2050 with widespread EV adoption. ...

    more wind and solar power to the creaky U.S. grid. That would exacerbate the transmission network’s challenges because of the inherent unreliability of these renewable sources. Unlike coal, for example, wind and sunshine can’t be stored for ready use in power emergencies. ... "

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates...electric-grid/

    It's a long article so I have just posted some of the highlights.

    Clearly the aging U.S. electric grid is falling apart at a time when anti-human, climate doomsayers are trying to overload it.
    It will only get worse with incompetent Biden as president

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    In creased use of renewable also increases the unreliability of the power grid because it can't simply be turned on in the dark or when there is no wind.
    ROFLMAO. When someone is as stupid as you there doesn't seem to be anything we can do to help you medically.

    The U.S. Department of Energy found that 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old in its last network-infrastructure review in 2015. Lines typically have a 50 year lifespan. The average age of large power transformers, which handle 90% of U.S. electricity flow, is more than 40 years. Transformer malfunctions tend to escalate at about 40 years ...
    The problem is an aging system that needs to be replaced. The story cites the failures in the Louisiana, Texas, and other places in the south as well as California. It then lists the places that are actually working to upgrade their systems. The southern US is not one of them but California is.
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