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The coming blackouts:
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has released its latest reliability assessment for the summer of 2022 and, to put it mildly, the news is not good. In far too many states, the power grid is already nearly at full capacity, and in the next few months, that capacity will be exceeded. This isn’t a question of “if” or really even “when.” It’s just a fact. Industry experts know this and have been trying to sound the alarm for several years. Critics are trying to place the blame on climate change (as they do with everything else) in the form of extended droughts and heatwaves. Those factors definitely exacerbate the problem, but this was going to happen in the next year or so anyway. And thus far, the government has done virtually nothing about it.-
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SpikeTalon 10 May 23
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Leftist policies that assume knowledge of how to project demand - or rather the false assumption that there is no need to project demand and plan for maintenance and development, has crippled the carefully thought through projections and infrastructure support required to maintain adequate power. So without that infrastructure spending, everything degrades, and eventually breaks down. Welcome to Stalinist Amerika.

@TimTuolomne @SpikeTalon @timon_phocas @eschatologyguy @Sensrhim4hizvewz @iThink

We have to separate good infrastructure and bad infrastructure.

Infrastructure should be financially efficient.

Infrastructure should be built by local government, if possible.

The interstate freeway system, built in the 60s, is good infrastructure. That being said it was federal, and it should have been states. States should have held a conference and designed a sensible roadmap, and then each state builds its piece.

Johnson won the election because he advocated for rural infrastructure, like the interstate freeway system. This was the last time that Democrats cared about rural America. They forgot that this wins elections.

Instead of "more socialism vs. less socialism", think "good socialism vs. bad socialism".

Dams are good socialism. Dams are an all-around good thing. Build a dam and you get cheap electricity forever. Every American river worth damming has been dammed.

The CDC could be good socialism, but Democrats screwed it up.

We should have a stout electricity system, and lots of backup coal plants.

The NCAA is bad socialism.

Howdy @jaymaron,

good socialism versus bad socialism

I remember listening to a smart American businesswoman back in the Obama administration. She had extensive investments in Germany. She said there was a big difference between American and German socialism. American socialism was geared towards sending money to individuals. German socialism was geared towards subsidizing companies who hired people to make things. She said she preferred German approach.

@jaymaron ANY socialism is "...government control of industry," which in my book is never good. Government does nothing well. Private industries bid and produced good highway systems back in the day when government officials feared the people if they failed to award and oversee good contracts (pure capitalism, with the Federal government as the customer.) That does not exist today

@TimTuolomne

"back in the day when government officials feared the people if they failed to award and oversee good contracts"

Good point.

Where's the bridge? Show me the bridge!

A bridge collapsed in Pennsylvania and the media didn't cover it.

California can't build. They still don't have a commuter rail line linking LA and SF. We had a transcontinental railroad in 1869.

Slogans for Republicans:

Build track better.

Build frack better.

Slogan for Democrats: Build crack better.

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Howdy @SpikeTalon,

We are under the thumb of of environmental extremists. They think we can be driven like sheep into their new ecological nirvana and that we'll mutely accept our new reduced status. They'd better find new and creative ways to cheat this year, because even deep blue states are going to see a red wave.

even deep blue states are going to see a red wave.

I remember that's what they said the last time.

An apocalypse prediction from @eschatologyguy

@jaymaron An observation. Might get repeated.

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Democrats tell us to get EVs, and then Democrats turn off the electricity.

If everyone gets and EV, the grid isn't big enough to handle a personal charging station in every house.

Gasoline is squeezable. A shortfall in gasoline can produce a big price spike. Same for electricity.

The prices of gasoline and electricity drive the prices of everything else.

Massachusetts cut down a swath of forest through Maine that is 100 yards wide, to build an extension cord to Canada to buy electricity.

Everyone should have their own personal strategic gasoline reserve, a firewood reserve, a whiskey reserve, etc.

jaymaron.com/offgrid.html [jaymaron.com]

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Climate change is being used as the primary reason for these blackouts. The absolute insanity here is that folks don't realize that at the same time they warn of pending power outages...they are hard-pressing society into electric vehicles. Most people can't connect the two pending disasters.

We have a fuel and transportation system built on reliable fossil fuels yet our governments are eliminating this infrastructure through punitive taxes and high costs.

None of it makes sense and none of it benefits anyone except the psychopaths making these ludicrous decisions

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The NERC I know about means Non-Epistemic Ranking Criteria.

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Never heard of The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) before now.
Sounds like something the Communists (aka Democrat party) dreamed up.
You know how good they are at coming up with names for their latest initiatives that sound all benevolent and altruistic - right?

So far the Communists have not been able to shut up and shut out the American People legislatively, nor through the judiciary branch - COVID 19 has not worked out the way they hoped it would. Fomenting violence in the streets all across the nation has not manifested in the complete social breakdown they apparently hoped it would. In fact it only served to facilitate record gun and ammo sales over the last 2 or 3 years.

Now they are "notifying" us of their latest brainstorm - Running Blackouts. Just when summer arrives and coincidently a few months prior to the upcoming Mid-term elections.

So I am expecting to begin hearing about some areas of the country being prioritized above other areas...I mean, like, you know; NY, DC, Eastern Seaboard States where the politicians and the lobbyists live - well, those areas critically important and their electricity MUST NEVER be allowed to fail - National security...you know.
I just did a quick little web search on the NERC - about all I got was that it is a "non-profit" organization.

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