https://www.newscientist.com/article/2409679-much-of-north-america-may-face-electricity-shortages-starting-in-2024/
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Hijinx
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I am no scientist, but I could have foretold that.
Windmills and solar panels cannot cut the mustard and we are shutting down perfectly good---operating power plants like the one at Morgantown and the one on the Patuxent near Benedict. Does anyone remember when we had a fuel reserve? We are being set up. No excuse for any of this BS except that we are being set up.
Windmills and solar panels cannot cut the mustard and we are shutting down perfectly good---operating power plants like the one at Morgantown and the one on the Patuxent near Benedict. Does anyone remember when we had a fuel reserve? We are being set up. No excuse for any of this BS except that we are being set up.
That was a weird AF movie.
SamSpade
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One of the rare cases where I read the story long before they put it on film.
Looked up the novel and found the author to be the Terminator Lawsuit guy.
Blister
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Probably the biggest risk is the loss of "Spinning Reserve". At any moment on any day a large base load power plant unit can trip offline. Spinning Reserve is generation that is online below maximum capacity, with the ability to rapidly increase output. For example if on a hot summer day just one 850 Megawatt unit at Calvert Cliffs trips for whatever reason, you would need over 40 other units already online that can each instantly contribute another 20 Megawatts each. Joe Biden, Jennifer Granholm, and John Kerry will all deny their responsibility for the tragedy they have created. Without a doubt the doodoo will hit the windmill this year.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2019/10/f68/EAC_Optimizing Reserves (October 2019).pdf
Optimizing Reserves
Presented by the EAC—October 2019
1
Optimizing Reserves
Introduction
Operating reserves are needed to ensure that additional energy is available in response to numerous
possible system events. “Spinning reserves” – one type of operating reserves – are the unloaded portion
of generators that are online already and can quickly increase their output to their maximum ratings to
meet changes in demand. Other operating reserves can be provided by offline generators that an
operator can turn on when needed (known as 10-minute “quick start” units) but which cannot respond
immediately as spinning reserves. Operating reserves help to restore balance to the system following
large losses of resources, such as the balancing authority’s largest single generating contingency. Both
kinds of reserves are critical to reliability of the grid and should be optimized.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2019/10/f68/EAC_Optimizing Reserves (October 2019).pdf
Optimizing Reserves
Presented by the EAC—October 2019
1
Optimizing Reserves
Introduction
Operating reserves are needed to ensure that additional energy is available in response to numerous
possible system events. “Spinning reserves” – one type of operating reserves – are the unloaded portion
of generators that are online already and can quickly increase their output to their maximum ratings to
meet changes in demand. Other operating reserves can be provided by offline generators that an
operator can turn on when needed (known as 10-minute “quick start” units) but which cannot respond
immediately as spinning reserves. Operating reserves help to restore balance to the system following
large losses of resources, such as the balancing authority’s largest single generating contingency. Both
kinds of reserves are critical to reliability of the grid and should be optimized.
I have a dog that 'thinks' she's telepathic.A very young Don Johnson and a character named @kwillia (Quilla).
SamSpade
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Harlan Ellison. One of my all time favorites. He wrote City on the Edge of Forever from Star Trek and Demon With a Glass Hand from the Outer Limits - and has won 8 Hugos and a host of other writing awards. He was the first in a long line of sf writers who just broke the mold of sf writing in the 60s.
He was brash, a smart ass, the kind of person you probably couldn’t WAIT to punch in the face.
He died just a few years ago.
I think my favorite story of his is When Jeffty was Five.
Yeah. From two different sites I read opinions and interactions with him I kinda got that impression. Including one where he started a fight with another author over who knows what.