Most of the country cannot survive and flourish with intermittent electricity
By Ronald Stein
Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California
Wind chills below zero from a nor’easter have hit much of the country. President Biden’s push to go Green at any cost would leave America dependent on intermittent electricity from wind turbines and solar panels. This would be an energy disaster.
The Democratic platform loves California and wants to clone its policies and regulations for the other 49 states. Biden should open his eyes to what is going on in California, before cloning it for the other 49 states. To meet its electrification goals of the state, California professes to be the leader of everything but has become the State that imports more electricity than any other state, through its dysfunctional energy policies.
California has the least reliable electrical power system in the nation. Between 2008 and 2017, California was the leading U.S. state for individual power outages with almost 4,297 blackouts in the ten-year period, more than 2.5 times as many as its closest rival, Texas. Power outages are now commonplace in California.
California energy policies have made the state’s electricity and fuel prices among the highest in the nation which have been contributory to the rapid growth of “energy poverty” for most Californians including the 18 million (45 percent of the 40 million Californians) that represent the Hispanic and African American populations of the state. Why does Biden want to clone California for the other 49 states?
The wealthier developed countries that have access to continuous uninterruptible electricity from coal, natural gas, and nuclear, also have access to heating, air conditioning, and insulation that has virtually eliminated weather related deaths. In the last 80 years, climate-related deaths have gone down by a rate of 98%. Globally, the individual risk of dying from weather-related disasters declined by 98 percent from a high of almost 500,000 deaths in 1920 from floods, droughts, storms, wildfires, and extreme temperatures.
With Biden’s plan to go Green, and rely on intermittent electricity from wind and solar, he is promoting a reversal of the climate-related fatalities as few other states have the temperate climate as California. The state of California can survive on dysfunctional energy policies as the growing outages are not impacting the public and businesses like they would in other states with much harsher temperature extremes.
Yes, getting-off-fossil fuels would reduce those fossil fuel emissions, but it would also drastically impact the lifestyles that we have become accustomed, and surprisingly few would live beyond 40+, as getting-off-fossil fuels would result in reverting to extensive diseases and weather-related deaths, which fossil fuels and electricity from natural gas, nuclear, and coal have virtually eliminated.
With the nor’easter storm hitting much of the East Coast, maybe Biden and America should learn something about Europe’s experiences with wind and solar during those harsh times when continuous, uninterruptible, reliable electricity is required to maintain the basics of living in extreme climate conditions as chaotic wind and solar collapses are threatening an entire Europe-wide blackout.
California has been following Germany trying to be a leader on climate change, by phasing out nuclear and natural gas power plants, and pioneering a system of subsidies for industrial wind and solar as part of a continuing effort to fight global warming.
In recent years, California continues to downsize its natural gas fleet. At the same time, the states “green” religion remains adamantly against coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power plants. In the near term, California has five more power plants to shutter in the cross hairs – the last nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon and four more natural gas power plants.
To compound the dysfunctionality, ramifications from Governor Newsom’s recent Executive order to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 will be devastating to the state’s economy and environment, as the Governor wants to add more electrical charging demands onto a dysfunctional energy program. The state has already sacrificed reliable electrical power on the altar of the fight against global warming.
Biden may be unaware that the temperate climate on the West coast is not representative of the extreme weather conditions encountered throughout most of America. California may be more tolerant to dysfunctional energy policies that are putting more reliance on intermittent electricity from wind and solar, but the rest of the country needs continuous and uninterruptable electricity for life and business to survive and flourish.
Ronald Stein, P.E.
Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure
http://www.energyliteracy.net/
In sales, you need $100 words to sell something.
Hence we have “polar vortex” and “bomb cyclone”. Sales words to sexy up something that has been happening forever.
And polar vortex is simply a stupid use of language.
It’s a high pressure system rotating clockwise and pushing out
A vortex sucks you into a spiral, which is a low pressure system.
A polar vortex is in fact an upper-air low-pressure system. It does bring down polar highs around its periphery.
https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-polar-vortex
Ok, interesting
And yet, the actual massive cold air pool over us is always centered on a high pressure system
Our ideas and logic are “dogs that do not hunt”: We were conquered in three steps. Our institutions were slowly and subtly taken over, there was a fraudulent election and, most importantly, that was left to stand. Now, there is a call for “Unity”; which is a euphemism for accepting unconditional surrender. Also, our speech is diligently censored by a very large number of institutions acting in perfect concert. So, we will have to take whatever we get.
Here is an example, Bellefonte PA. Graffiti on a wall included one red shape of the United States over the word “Conquered!!”. That was labelled in our local newspapers as “White Supremacy”, “Racism”, and it will be prosecuted as a “Hate Crime” when the author is found.
Funny how Democrats are only interested in “unity”, when they are in charge.
They are now trying to Gas-Light America that they didn’t actually run a divisive #Resistance campaign for 4 years.
“Biden may be unaware that the temperate climate on the West coast is not representative of the extreme weather conditions encountered throughout most of America.”
The only thing he is aware of is whether his diaper needs changing.and his drool cup needs to be emptied.
You give him more credit than I do.
A few years back I listened to a political pundit describe being stuck in a traffic jam in DC during a snow storm. What stuck in my mind was the idea that EVs just aren’t designed for a bad snow storm.
That “storm” put down less than 2 inches and paralyzed the metro area for a week. And we allow these morons to run our country.
Just think of all the green jobs created shoveling snow off of solar panels that won’t work under cloudy skies anyway.
Repeal the 20th Century!
the g e n o c i d e s of the 20th Century were just a warm-up, trial-run experiements for what the Totalitarians have planned for the 21st Century.
Cannot wait since they deserve it most.
In order to dig out from a nor’easter, the snowplows all run on gasoline or diesel fuel. Even the snow blowers people use on their driveways run on gasoline.
Let’s see if Biden can invent a wind-powered snowplow.
But then again, he waved his magic wand and COVID-19 went away (with a little help from the World Health Organization when they went from 40 to 25 cycles to define a positive test, the day after Biden was inaugurated). Since each of the cycles doubles the virus concentration, the extra 15 cycles increased the concentration by a factor of over 32,000. Meaning that most of the cases during the Trump presidency were false positives.
But we have to “follow the science”, and fudge the data to help the Democrats!
“Biden should open his eyes to what is going on in California” FauxJoe loves what has been done to Cali, just as he loves what has been done to Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and all the other Democrat run shyteholes. Which is precisely why he is now doing it to America at large.
Wonder if we could get the WH, and the House and the Senate to be powered by Wind and Solar only. Just to see how long that would last in middle of winter. Might get the point across maybe? How bad it really is to rely on that, while shutting down coal, oil, nuclear.
The more pain the better. Pain is one way to educate and focus the mind when tamer, rational methods fail. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT. Then sit back and watch.
Like I asked in another post, how do you keep ice off the wind turbines in offshore installations?