I only checked 2019 but in that year there were over 25000 blackout events in California in that year alone. Guess we have different opinions in what is acceptable.
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The vast majority of which are likely cause by transmission and distribution outage events rather than lack of generation capacity. Like "Bird flew into substation and got vaporized tripping a circuit breaker" or "Ice load caused power line to sag and cross phases"
This is kind of what I work on every day. We (the utility industry) are putting a lot of time and effort into improving reliability and doing it strategically and cost effectively to our customers. PG&E out in California has to deal with a myriad of different issues, forced outages to prevent wildfires during high winds (because of their poor track record on the issue) being a major one of them.
I think California gets a bad wrap for blackouts stemming back from the Enron years where non-regulated utilities were allowed to manipulate the energy markets.
More hot summer nights. One of the visuals shows Tulsa faring better than most nationally?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...-hot-nights.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...-hot-nights.html?referringSource=articleShare
Renewable energy intrigues me... have we finally created a perpetual motion machine?
California averts widespread rolling blackouts as energy demands ease amid heat wave
The California Independent System Operator had issued a level 3 alert, a sign that the grid couldn't meet the state's electrical needs.
www.latimes.com
Cal Iso is anticipating its highest load ever tomorrow. That's a bit astounding. They need to start building more generation or more transmission from areas that have some excess.California averts widespread rolling blackouts as energy demands ease amid heat wave
The California Independent System Operator had issued a level 3 alert, a sign that the grid couldn't meet the state's electrical needs.
Costs of climate change already being felt.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...-risk-homes.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...-risk-homes.html?referringSource=articleShare
If raw total suits you better, we’re in roughly the same place as we were in the 70s-80s
Not great, but as you said, it doesn't matter. Where are we making the most headway is my curiosity.
Pretty sure the headway is due to switching to natural gas from coal as a result of the frac'ing boom.
Extrême heat map
No worries unless you have children and grandchildren…?
www.themanual.com
No worries unless you have children and grandchildren…?
This tool shows how horrific climate change will be in 2050
Over 1,000 US counties are projected to experience at least one day above 125 degrees by 2053.
www.themanual.com
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China screwing the US once againExtrême heat map
No worries unless you children and grandchildren…?
This tool shows how horrific climate change will be in 2050
Over 1,000 US counties are projected to experience at least one day above 125 degrees by 2053.
I know we tend to focus on China’s emissions but India deserves a mention as well. Their emissions are projected to double by 2030. This is obviously problematic for global warming and further illustrates measures by the US will fall well short of the established “drop dead” point. Reality is reality.
www.carbonbrief.org
Guest post: India's emissions will double at most by 2030 - Carbon Brief
In a global climate regime built around national climate pledges – known as “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) – it becomes essential to understand the likelihood of meeting these pledges.
I pretty much mention China & India in the same breath 9 times out of 10.I know we tend to focus on China’s emissions but India deserves a mention as well. Their emissions are projected to double by 2030. This is obviously problematic for global warming and further illustrates measures by the US will fall well short of the established “drop dead” point. Reality is reality.
Guest post: India's emissions will double at most by 2030 - Carbon Brief
In a global climate regime built around national climate pledges – known as “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) – it becomes essential to understand the likelihood of meeting these pledges.
Focusing on China and India as reasons to avoid doing anything is just more toad talk. It also ignores the industrialized west's responsibility for its being the largest contributors to the human supplied CO2 already in the atmosphere.
While one might take some solace in the recent steps the US has taken to reduce CO2 emissions, it's not nearly enough. For example, Shell is opening a huge plastics plant near Pittsburgh this month that will annually add C02 to the atmosphere equivalent to 450K cars of the road, and even that ignores the other forms of pollution the plant will add to the area.
While one might take some solace in the recent steps the US has taken to reduce CO2 emissions, it's not nearly enough. For example, Shell is opening a huge plastics plant near Pittsburgh this month that will annually add C02 to the atmosphere equivalent to 450K cars of the road, and even that ignores the other forms of pollution the plant will add to the area.
Show me a single post where I have advocated to not do anything? Stop misrepresenting my position. The point is factoring in the future emissions of China and India there is zero chance of avoiding the drop dead emission levels. Therefore, resources must be used to best deal with the coming changes as they are now a certainty.
But that's 'toad talk'.
While he ignores the elephant in the room.(drop dead emission levels unavoidable without India & China's assistance)
Pointing to others as a reason to do nothing yourself is exactly toad talk. It is also just the most current of a list of reasons to sit on one’s hind legs. First it was denying the climate was changing (NOAA and NASA were fudging their readings?), then ’it’s too expensive’ and on down the list. The result is always the same…do nothing.
If we are a leadership country, we should not be waiting for our competitors and opponents to take the lead.
If we are a leadership country, we should not be waiting for our competitors and opponents to take the lead.
It’s like I’m talking to my 8 year old…or worse. Again….show me where I said “we should do nothing”. Until such time I will ask once again that you please stop misrepresenting my position. You frankly look stupid. In fact, I have consistently called for action in this topic. Action to deal with the inevitable. What is coming is coming and there’s not a damn thing the US can do to stop it. We best be prepared
I care about the lives of Americans and your main concern is the respect of a few foreign countries…sounds about right.
In all this talk, I keep wondering how it is that the Manchurian Poster can justify his presence on the internet. He seems to advocate being extreme in being efforts to fight the inevitable (the fossil and sedimentary record indicates it has happened before) yet, he does not appear to have abandoned his tech and moved to a cave in the mountains to live his zero lifestyle..
Didn't mean to post this last night, wasn't finished:
You are quite something. If spend all your money to fix the problem and you don't fix it? Then you need money to combat the problem through measures to alleviate the suffering the problem brings. You have a logical blindness about this issue, and you can't even see it.
And I said broke(n) intentionally. You will be broke, and broken as a leader, broken as a political influencer, and broken in your susceptibility to military attack, as well as broken at home in how your systems are failing. It matters in what you spent it on and how much benefit you got out of it. So money does matter in an existential crisis.
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