How Did a Quasi-Governmental Program get so Much Power?
Efficiency Maine's Vision Statement
"Through its fifth Triennial Plan, Efficiency Maine seeks prioritize the piloting of the next generation of demand management measures. For example, measures that deliver load flexibility may help shape load and balance increasing supplies of variable renewable energy. Load flexibility can play an important role in managing costs and grid reliability, helping to integrate higher penetrations of renewable energy and reducing the curtailment of those resources. As Maine advances in the sophistication of its grid operations, including improved granularity of customer usage data, real-time monitoring of utility distribution circuits, and time-of-use pricing, Efficiency Maine will seek more opportunities to apply load flexibility. Through the Innovation Program, Efficiency Maine will use its pilots to generate data and learnings to inform the development of the necessary systems and rate designs and to develop the next generation of demand management programs."
"shape load and balance increasing supplies of variable renewable energy. Load flexibility can play an important role in managing costs and grid reliability"
In Other Words, your electricity use must conform to the wind and sun. Intermittent lifestyles, anyone?
"Efficiency Maine will seek more opportunities to apply load flexibility.
In Other Words, Efficiency Maine will control your power.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 22, 2024 at 10:06am
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War Room’s Steve Bannon, Co-Host Natalie Winters and Raheem Kassam on World Chaos as a Result of the 2020 Election (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/war-rooms-steve-bannon-co-...
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Comment by Willem Post on December 19, 2024 at 11:11am
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The Role of CO2
In the tropics and subtropics, CO2 a weak photon absorber, plays no measurable role, because, near the surface, it is outnumbered by about 65 to 1 by water vapor, WV, a strong photon absorber.
Plus, WV, 18, is lighter than CO2, 44, and air, 29, so it condenses into clouds at about 2000 meter elevation, which, with prevailing winds, are transported to northern latitudes, to areas underserved by the sun, especially during winter.
That means the WV and clouds we see up north come from faraway places, because up north there is not enough energy to evaporate the water, which often is near or on the ground as dew, ground fog, snow and ice.
But, even up north, near the surface, CO2 plays no measurable role, because WV outnumbers CO2 at least 34 to 1.
CO2 begins to play a measurable role when the presence of WV is lower, say 3 to 1, at about 3000 m elevation, which is above the clouds. WV freezes on all dry air molecules and on CO2, pollen, aerosols, etc.
Any sunlight is reflected, refracted or absorbed by the WV molecules, not the CO2 molecules, because they are covered with ice.
At colder temperatures above the clouds, any emitted photons would have longer wavelengths beyond the CO2 15 micrometer absorption window. However, WV would absorb these photons, because it has a much wider window starting at about 15 micrometer.
A photon, a vibrating package of energy with a wavelength, has no mass, moves at the speed of light in a vacuum, which is many orders of magnitude greater than the speed of molecules, measured in hundreds of meter/second.
At higher elevation, temperature is less, density is less, there are fewer molecules/m^3 or moles/m^3, there are fewer collisions, because molecules are further apart.
The average kinetic energy of molecules decreases. See URL
KE = 3/2 RT = 3/2 x 8.314 J / (mol K)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-albany-chemistry/chapter/the...
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No liberal arts journalists would ever write this, because it is way above their heads. They stick to the over-simplified scare-mongering talking points provided by a mostly western cabal consisting of the IPCC, Corporate Media, self-serving elite $stakeholders, bureaucrats and associated entities.
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I wouldn't label the addition of wind and solar into our grid as an advance in the sophistication of grid operations, but that's just me. Bureaucrats would have us raise more sails on a becalmed ocean to make better time on an Atlantic crossing. Vikings used long oars.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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