National News Reports Predict Electricity Shortages Are Coming.
The path to comfort slipped right through our hands. Electricity is great when it is just a flip of the switch away, but life can be excruciating when electricity is interrupted, especially when interruptions coincide with unbelievable high prices.
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Comment by Penny Gray on May 29, 2022 at 10:23am
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"It doesn't matter that wind and solar won't be able to power the planet. They're a symbol of what we should be doing."
I was actually told that by someone who truly believed we must continue down this path. Civilization as we know it is about to be symbolically "reset".
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on May 28, 2022 at 9:22pm
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Green Energy Land Requirements
Calculations of easily obtainable information.
1 terawatts = 1,000,000 Megawatts.
Which would be 333,333.33 wind turbines @ 3Megawatts each.
The U.S. in 2021 used 3,930 terawatt hours.
This would require 1,310,000,000 3Megawatt turbines.
Each at 500-600 feet in height needs 3 acres clearance in open areas or forested areas. Totaling 3,930,000,000 acres needed.
The U.S. Has Nearly 1.9 Billion Acres Of Land. (including lakes, ponds, rivers & streams)
If we tore up every building and road and dedicated it to just wind, we are short by 2,030,000,000 acres needed. If we filled the acres of land between wind turbines with solar, we would still fall short of our energy needs, which increase at about 2-4% per year.
The non-electrical power such as direct use of fossil fuels is not included, which calculates out to 4,584.22 terawatts of power.
So now we would need an additional 1.17 times more wind and solar to electrify the roads and fossil fuel dependent industries.
Which would be another 4,598,100,000 acres, to accomplish this task.
This means that we are currently 6,628,100,000 (Billions) acres short of being able to use renewables. This is assuming we left no room to live, travel, or produce crops or products.
This calculation assumes they, both solar and wind produce 24/7.
Neither can, with wind at an average of 28% annually and solar slightly less in overall expected production.
With those known's, we would need an additional 70% more land or 11,267,770,000 (billion) acres total. There are approximately 36 Billion acres for the entire planet Earth (Including all Oceans).
So, of the total of 13,167,770,000 acres needed to go Green, our 1.9billion acres in the U.S. can NEVER produce more than 6.93% of the 2021 energy use between all current electrical production and for fossil fuel conversion to green.
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National Geographic just came out with an article explaining why, if you're sleeping poorly, it's because of climate change. Critical thinking has become as rare as common sense. It's up to the people to educate themselves, but most won't. This is going to get very ugly.
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 28, 2022 at 6:06pm
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We have predicted that for more than a decade now. I remember in an issue of the National Geographic a few years ago the following sentence ending a paragraph on wind power: " Wind power is the grid operator nightmare ,"
Intelligence comes from Latin :" Intel Lego ",to discern, to read in between.
So we all know the equation : A corrupt politico/ business model brainwashes a voting group devoid of intelligence .
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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