Shifty1 has taken the time to share rather electrifying points about the power grid issue that up until now has not been an issue... at least in the minds of the eco-greenie's rants...

... and Shifty1 actually works on the "inside" of that evil monstrosity... the "Power Producers!"

You will not only enjoy the read, you will also probably learn a few things...

I have seen it.

Four months?!? FOUR MONTHS?!? OH CRAP! I better get busy and recycle something...or something!

I continue to be amazed at the Chicken Little-esque headline attending "Climate Change" (BTW don't you looove the greenies adaptability....Global Warming becomes Man MADE Global Warming becomes...Climate Change!) The sad part is that so very many of the governments in the world have read, absorbed and been HEE-ALL_ED! by the Gospel of Gore.

I had to do a presentation for a class on....um Effective Presentations...last year, and since I am a card-carrying member of the eco-terrorist cell know as the local Electric Power Plant worker, mine was on how electricity is made. As part of the presentation I dealt with the ridiculousness of the environmentalists (I call them knot-hole rapists...those who have gone beyond mere hugging of trees to....well, you know!). One of my favorite tales is how the knot-holers are all for "renewable" energy....yet sued the operators of the Altamonte Pass wind generation site because the "eco-friendly" windmills posed a hazard to wildlife!?! Seems the bird flying through the pass are not bright enough to detour around the GIGUNDOUS windmills...and in a match of bird vs. wind turbine blade....guess who wins?
As with most of these "progressive" initiatives, it's not so much about whatever squishy-sounding goodness that it's proponents SAY.....it's about power. And usually MONEY..lots and lots of money!!

I was searching my menmory (well my computer's memory) for the article I read yesterday about how not nearly enough of the "Spendulous" cash has been marked to update the power grid, beyond the "smartening" of it. It made a couple of awesome points. First, installing all the high-tech gadgetry in the world will amount to a fart in the wind if we don't build more Transmission and Distribution capacity...MORE WIRES!! But that's not sexy, and may be ecologically hurtful! So no money for that. The problem is we are running on a system designed at something like 1950's standards (and in some instances using harware that is older than that)for 21st century demand. You can build all the green, blue, purple or pink energy sources you want, but if we don't build more wires to carry the electricity from the source to the user...

And specifically addressing the wind component of "renewable" energy, the article described the special needs associated with integrating wind into the grid, given the wide fluctuations in the level of power developed. One of our current power plants puts out stable dependable levels of voltage at the proper frequency (which is muay importante unless you want all of your electric items to burn up). Wind turbines, by definition vary widely in the amount of power produced. Unless the wind is steady, the turbine will speed up (producing more power) and slow down (less power) with the breeze. Not so great for creating stability on the grid. But hey..let's rush to mandate renewables into every utilities generation portfolio! We only have FOUR MONTHS people!

Thanks again Shifty1!

Ever think about firing up your own blog?

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