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One of the biggest newspapers in the Netherlands is warning its readers that Dutch citizens should get accustomed to the notion that electricity will not always be available to them in the future.
NRC, one of the largest papers in the country, published a lengthy piece on June 14 warning that the Netherlands’ green transition is driving up electricity demand more quickly than needed supporting infrastructure can be built, a situation that will likely lead to grid reliability issues if the status quo is maintained over the coming years. The authors describe how a transition away from affordable, reliable and conventional energy resources and toward green energy generation — like solar and wind — is teaming up with growing demand attributable to the country’s push to electrify industry and other parts of everyday life could overwhelm the country’s power system.
“The message is clear: the Netherlands will have to get rid of the idea that electricity is available at all times and for everyone,” a translated version of the NRC piece states. “And drastic measures will have to be taken to prevent the worst problems. But which ones and how successful they will be, grid operators and the government are largely in the dark.” (RELATED: Germany Went All In On The Green Transition. Now, Its Economy Is Crumbling)
Like nearly all of Europe, the Netherlands has aggressive emissions reductions targets to meet in the coming decades as part of a wider effort to fight climate change, including a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels, and 80% by 2040 before ultimately reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the Dutch government. This transition will necessitate replacing fossil fuel-fired generation with green sources, but doing so will require significant advancements in battery storage technology as well as a complementary buildout of transmission and related infrastructure, the NRC piece explains.
However, corporations seeking to electrify their operations as part of the green push — numbering in the thousands — are struggling to get connected to the grid, in part because there is already a growing waiting list for connection and transmission projects, the NRC piece states. Typically, those in the queue can expect to wait several years for their requests to be completed. (RELATED: ‘On The Edge Of What Is Bearable’: Why Are European Farmers Protesting?)
Several members of the Dutch government, as well as the country’s grid operators, have warned about the dynamic that is currently unfolding, according to NRC. The authors state that Tennet — a system operator that manages high-voltage power lines in Germany and the Netherlands — is projecting that the Netherlands will face 14 hours of power shortage per year starting in 2033.
Those shortages do not necessarily mean that the whole country will be plunged into darkness for 14 hours over the course of the year, but rather that there will be too little electricity to meet demand, according to NRC. Realistically, those shortages will more likely lead to huge spikes in electricity prices, as well as a need for some companies to voluntarily restrict or cease their operations on a temporary basis in order to bring demand down.
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Now maybe they will have more to worry about than “climate anxiety.”
“story tip”
https://theconversation.com/three-practical-ways-to-address-climate-anxiety-
230595?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Many young people are experiencing the threat to our planet on a personal, visceral level. In addition, our survey found that women were more likely to experience climate anxiety than men, and taken together it was particularly young women who were most anxious.
Induced mental illness.
Self-induced mental illness, I have seen it in lefties, especially women.
It’s induced by education, it is reinforced non-stop by the mass media. And it has absolutely nothing to do with science.
“”BBC withdraws educational video that said there are 100+ gender identities after backlash””
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/world/bbc-withdraws-educational-video-that-said-there-are-100-gender-identities-after-backlash-302343/
What is climate change? A really simple guide
Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, with more intense heatwaves and rising sea-levels among the consequences.
Things are likely to worsen in the coming decades, but scientists argue urgent action can limit the worst effects of climate change….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24021772
It’s induced by
educationindoctrinationFIFY
When one has many standards, there is no standard.
A new safe and effective jab is coming out every few months now it seems. They can take away that anxiety.
A new jab?
This suggests that young women are least able to educate themselves about climate truths, which is rather contrary to all this ‘women must obtain preferment in all areas of employment’, doesn’t it?
Look up the origins of the word “hysteria”.
“Many young people are experiencing the threat to our planet on a personal, visceral level.”
It’s criminal the way Climate Alarmists lie to young people and scare them to death over the benign gas, CO2.
Climate Alarmists have no evidence that CO2 causes any problems, but that doesn’t stop them from lying and claiming it does cause problems.
There is no evidence that CO2 is anything other than a benign gas, essential for life on Earth. That’s what young people need to hear.
They are on their own gravy train and don’t want to rock the boat – to mix metaphors.
And boy, do they hate it when you ‘mansplain’ climate realism to ’em using facts and reason.
A lack of experience and an over-dependency on social and even mainstream media has made young people particularly susceptible to climate propaganda.
Since the young rarely watch msm they get most of there info from the internet. The irony here is that the establishment constantly warn about ONLINE (far right) mis- and disinformation. They see their alarmism as realism and condemn critical thinking.
Blackouts ( & deaths caused by them ), need to come sooner to end this race to the bottom, or it’ll be a death by 1,000 cuts (excuse the pun).
YOU will have nothing & you WILL be happy … or else !!
I see it (NL) going as follows:current transition fr natural gas to electricity and wind energy hits the ceiling> grid trouble> secure offshore gas supply, build nuclear power stations> expand the grid, limit new wind stations, open up now shut onshore natural gas w safety measures against tremors. Done. Happy days f the Dutch. Oh, and finally win the World Cup (3d time lucky).
Of course the dutch msm w like to see limitations of people’s energy use.The people simply won’t put up w this. They have never experienced energy hickups ever since they went to gas in the 1960s.
So, whatever the NRC wants it won’t get. Governments will topple if they push this idea. You think the farmer’s protest was big? Think again..
Over the years society has evolved from a low energy consumption model to a high energy consumption model. For example, al fresco dining has gone indoors, reading physical books, sports ball and goofing off outside has been replaced by video games and social media consumption. As air conditioning has improved and been adopted, people have been less accepting of deviating from even minor variances in Ideal Room Temperature everywhere. In the States, people will drive to their mailbox rather than make the short hike. Yard tools used to be manual, now ever tool requires fuel or batteries. Even opening the garage door is no longer manual. Even appliances are designed with the idea that power is always available. With new heat-pump water heaters its 300W of constant power rather than 4000W bursts; Tankless water heaters are no longer Instant, but, “when will the be our turn for our ration of power this evening?” Refrigerators, in the pursuit of efficiency are almost constant running – but at lower overall power consumption – not designed for pulse operation.
The point being, while the transformation has taken a generation to have an increased dependance on constant electricity and energy, The near instant return to low-energy or unreliable Cuba Style where the social infrastructure is clearly not in place will cause even more riotous social friction and angst.
Its almost like the Dark Tetrad Powers That Be are constantly seeking way to put society on Tilt until they get a violent reaction that precipitates perpetual Martial Law.
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I was thinking of our multi-speed heatpump HVAC and the major selling point is that the computer consults with weather forecasts, outdoor temperatures, historical temperature curves, etc. All in pursuit of increasing the SEER rating efficiency by only using what is necessary to maintain a desire range of temperatures. While the computerized thermostat can do all those things, its all for naught when it can’t account for random power outages of indefinite length.
We may have to reclaim some Medieval ideas on spiritual warfare.
Nice post!
The various local weather forecasters have been predicting rain frequently for the last several weeks. However, it has rarely rained, despite it being cloudy, and most lawns look like they usually do in August.
The outlook…
… is pretty grim.
So the solution to the problem of the intermittency of wind and solar power is intermittent electricity. Is there no end to this insanity?
Is there no end to this insanity?
No, apparently not. The Green net zero policy appears to be electrify everything you can, at least double electricity demand, and at the same time make the power more expensive, less reliable and less of it.
Logically, if that is what you are going to do, the only way of keeping any sort of working electricity service is rationing by smart meter.
People don’t realize what this means. Maybe they have no older family members or acquaintances? Or maybe they don’t talk to them? It means going back in energy consumption to the early 1950s, or earlier. Talk to those who are still alive and grew up in the 1950s, and ask about completely mundane things. Where did their parents shop, and how often? How did they heat the water for baths, and how often did they bathe? How did they get to school? How many people had cars? How did they heat their homes?
The answers will amaze you.
It’s actually worse than that.
At least in the 1950s you could heat your home with coal, likewise you could cook with coal or gas, if you had a car you could fill it with fuel, and if not then you could survive without one, candles or lanterns were available for lighting, so if you didn’t have electricity, it wasn’t the end of the world.
The “green vision” seems to be a world where we are totally reliant on electricity for heating, cooking, transportation, and all other services, but at the same time a world where we can’t access the very electricity that they are determined society shall be based on.
Ignoring – for the moment – the politicians who promote the all-electric world (i.e. the useful idiots), the nameless and faceless leaders of the “green” transition HAVE to be aware that their schemes will lead to permanent shortages of energy. In other words, insufficient and intermittent generation capacity in the coming utopia is not a bug, it’s a feature.
Your access to electricity will be dependent on being a compliant comrade. Your first complaint might lead to your smart meter being turned off for a week. Repeated offences could result in permanent disconnection, and if that doesn’t shut you up, then there will be re-education and Room 101.
Permanent energy shortages will be accompanied by permanent shortages of food – as the campaigns to ban nitrogen fertilizers, eliminate flatulent cattle, and take farmland out of service start to ramp up. When you’re cold, hungry and in the dark, you won’t feel much like being a trouble maker.
I can remember living for a few years in the late-’40s in a 2-bedroom home, built to be a Summer vacation home. It didn’t have a refrigerator; we relied on an actual ice box on the porch. Until my father installed a wood-fired water heater in the basement, even a weekly bath was out of the question. He shaved daily by using an electric immersion heater in the bathroom sink. The well water was supplied by an electric pump. If the electricity went out, there was no tap water for cooking, washing dishes, or flushing the toilet again. Even people who think that they are poor usually live with a higher standard of living than I experienced growing up with two working parents, and my father was a reasonably well-paid machinist working in Chicago. It would be a shame to go back to that quality of life.
sanity is now intermittent
Sanity in politics and government is never present; been there, done that, at a relatively high level, quit in disgust, after 11 years.
I had several temp jobs with the state of Wokeachusetts until I was so disgusted I gave up. Almost all permanent jobs were based on nepotism, cronyism, affirmative action. That was ages ago. Now, the best way to get a state job is to be a woke LGBT+ female. A gender change will top the list.
For a long time, vets had the advantage. I didn’t mind that too much because I didn’t serve- so I thought it OK to give them a break, if they were competent.
I once applied for a post office job- took the test- got the highest grade- the guy who got the job scored much lower than me but he supposedly was a wounded vet- yet, everyone in his postal territory raved at house fast he walked- with both legs and arms, so I don’t know what was injured if anything. Probably related to a top state politician. Now that bothered me.
We can always burn all the furniture 🙂
Too bad, so sad…
Clearly nations unable to provide reliable electricity are in no position to take in migrants, immigrants, refugees etc etc?
Time for all immigration to be halted until such time as electricity supply catches up with demand, eh?
No! More immigrants are required in order to get to very insufficient supply much faster.
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United StatesWestern world. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” —Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Dr. John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, 1970.Who gets to decide what that reality is…. WEF/UN
Now, who could have forseen this happening? Anyone with half a working brain cell, that’s who.
Finally, realisation that electricity generation isn’t the major issue but infrastructure is.
Thus News hadn’t reached some other Countries.
“infrastructure” in a wind and solar world isn’t the main issue because it can’t remedy the deficiencies.
Cool!!!! Start by shutting off electricity to that newspaper and all of it’s employees.
Green supporters should be cut off from all of the generating sources they oppose, and forced to live with only those they like. This means cut off from the grid, and from all goods made with fossil fuels. This is the way they can ” show the way”.
Unfortunately it will likely not change away from the green dream untill real pain is felt. Learning is very often the result of pain.
It looks like European politicians are getting ready to inflict a lot of pain on the people of Europe.
The Human-caused Climate Change Mass Delusion has enormous destructive consequences for Society.
Who started this Climate Change Mass Delusion? Who should be held accountable?
“Who started this Climate Change Mass Delusion?” – the late Maurice Strong, that’s who.
Along with Bert Bolin.
THE UN who has the loudest voice on the planet and its IPCC with its phony “models” with their phony predictions of gloom and doom have been the main ones pushing it.
That pain will have to become much greater than the police and military forces can inflict before most people will become involved.
“grid operators and the government are largely in the dark.”
So the rest of the population will be.
From the article: “Those shortages do not necessarily mean that the whole country will be plunged into darkness for 14 hours over the course of the year, but rather that there will be too little electricity to meet demand, according to NRC. Realistically, those shortages will more likely lead to huge spikes in electricity prices, as well as a need for some companies to voluntarily restrict or cease their operations on a temporary basis in order to bring demand down.”
That sounds like a good way to kill an economy.
Europe’s political leaders are dangerously stupid.
Never fear! The BRICs+ will supply all of your meager physical needs paid for with your devalued Western currencies. Learn Mandarin.
I fear it is a lead up to another world war. If China, India, Russia, and other nations continue to use fossil fuels, there will be a massive “forcing” to stop them. Not a good ending.
I think the next world war will start differently. The wrst continues to weaken itself while China gets stronger by monopolising coal usage. When China feels strong enough, it makes its move.
China doesn’t want a real WWII style war. It wants to continue getting rich. It’ll do so by continuing with its current policies of being the most productive society and slowly increasing its power and influence over the rest of the world. A real war would ruin its economy. It wants to be the “Middle Kingdom” again. I think it’s their motto – “Make China Middle Kingdom Again”. MCMKA
China takes the long view like no other country.
Someone once said: the West is playing chess, the East (China) is playing Go..
“A real war would ruin its economy.”
Yes, it would. And attacking Taiwan would have dire consequences.
Xi needs to check his ego at the door.
A good precursor will be the Western “carbon border adjustment tariffs” and the reaction by the rest-of-the-world’s booming industries and economies. Trade wars are unwinnable by he West with their relative lack of an industrial base and reliable, inexpensive energy.
Well it is definitely news. Hope people react appropriately angrily.
I find that the focus of our power system has gone to the belief of
“climate change” but the availability of critical components such
as capacitors used in substations or large buildings is at a worrisome low.
This is a trend seen throughout the country. When the riots were
ongoing during covid there was a group attacking substations. The
central focus is on wind and solar generation but not much involving
the critical pieces…Do the politicians even understand risk management?
No, they don’t.
All together now after me with the international anthem…
Eastern Australia at Risk of Imminent Natural Gas Shortages | OilPrice.com
Then everyone will buy diesel generators for their homes.
I visited India in the 80s when I was young. Every day from 7-8pm there was no electricity (rolling blackouts to manage demand). It was fun the first day (“Yay! It’s like camping!”). Miserable every day afterwards.
Energy redistribution with wealth redistribution and the Marxists are goading you into it. People need to read and understand Agenda 21 to see what the UN has in store for you. Tired of having a good life that you earned? Don’t worry, that will be taken care of.
I used to work in the Soviet Union. They knew that it was impossible in their system to distribute cream before it went sour. Solution: Let it go sour under controlled circumstances, and distribute only sour cream.
It’s going to be interesting when the first few countries start having these kinds of problems, and then they see that others are not having problems. What will they do then?
I have read the entire comments section and noted nary a word from MyUserName and his ilk, I wonder why?
Voluntary ‘blackout.’
I wonder why?
Maybe “If I ignore it, it isn’t happening”?
There’s that term “fighting” again. Fighting climate change requires fighting the weather for 30 years, by definition. “Fighting” is defined as committing violence to achieve your goals.
So, All this continued violence results in no electricity?
I don’t think “winning” is defined that way.
Fighting equals struggling for lefties. It’s all about the struggle for them. Doesn’t matter what the pathological urge to struggle is about or any real positive outcomes so in struggling against global weather they’ve latched onto their ultimate psychological nirvana.
Anyone depending on unproven, unreliable energy sources like wind and solar should be prepared for energy shortages and power outages almost always at the most inconvenient times. Let’s hope that those of us living in colder climates like Canada or the northern tier of American states don’t find themselves held hostage by excessively Green agenda governments; otherwise they’ll experience these shortages in the dead of winter when temperatures of minus 20C=minus 4F or lower aren’t uncommon. Then we’ll see how gung-ho any climate alarmists are about saving the planet.