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April 08, 2008
A Shortage Of Power
Carl from Chicago Boyz is discussing the looming collapse of the electrical power grid in Britain and how it relates to what is happening in America. There is a looming electricity crisis that is about to overtake the United States. While our demand for electricity continues to increase due to construction, computers (data centers take up a significant portion of electricity demand), and potentially even electric cars, essentially no new "base load" supply of electrical generation is being added to the market. We do get the occasional wind farm or solar or geothermal source of energy, and a bit of conservation is on the rise, but these tiny dents in supply and demand, respectively, don't even begin to cover growth much less the fact that many electricity plants are aging and will face retirement in the future. Due to the long lead times involved with getting a new plant on line (at LEAST 5-10 years in the case of large base load coal or nuclear plants, best case), our problem is that we aren't doing anything NOW to head off the crisis LATER, when we won't have any options at all.They have a nice graph showing how the grid in Britain will not be able to meet demand by around 2015. They also mention that already there are spot shortages in London. We need to plan ahead and throw the Greenies overboard. Already they are contributing to the destruction of the rain forests, and starving the poor. Why we want to let them have so much power in the face of their almost total ignorance of anything outside their narrow interests is beyond me. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 04.08.08 at 12:24 AM
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A knee-jerk reaction would be 'Hah! The Greenies are now the evil bastards of the world, taking their greed to the little brown people' ... but I know it is just the path towards control. We are using power and directly hurting the world ... we should stop, and the government will allocate us our power rations to make sure we obey the new 'conservation laws'. mdmhvonpa · April 8, 2008 08:24 AM Hamburg's aluminum industry is being threatened by the refusal of the Greens to allow building of a coal-fired plant. This is the main issue in coalition talks to form a new local governnment. vb · April 8, 2008 09:06 AM wow, I was going to make an unfair prediction, but mdmhvonpa's comment suggests it might not be unfair at all. The greens will continue to say "we should conserve, you should live differently," and block certain types of energy production. They will advocate nice-sounding alternatives, all of which will have unintended consequences. When the crunch comes, they will say "see, you should have done it our way." They will strive to make their dire predictions come true, whatever the cost to others. Because the others don't really matter. Far more than any fundamentalist preacher or cutthroat capitalist, environmentalists are absolutely oblivious that their proposals benefit them personally. The perceive nothing the noblest of motives in themselves, rather like inquisitors. Yes, I am a little irritable this morning. Assistant Village Idiot · April 8, 2008 09:15 AM Tom Maguire's Paul Krugman critique just moved John McCain from my "no way", to my "maybe" collumn. Papertiger · April 8, 2008 11:27 AM Peak Oil Update, 10x increase in US reserves. Papertiger · April 8, 2008 11:34 AM Post a comment
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