As policymakers in Washington like to point out, America is undergoing an “energy transition.” But as Washington embarks on a major national shift toward renewable energy, there’s a serious question — can we manage this wide-scale transformation without losing the security and reliability of our existing power grid?
The answer — according to the nation’s grid reliability experts — is that we’re on the verge of catastrophe. But instead of smart policies to address this looming crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has actually issued a blitz of new rules that could make things worse.
Relax, just more reactionary fear mongering with a plethora of cherry-picking and straw man 'arguments' thrown in to replace the logic. No matter who is paying for your opinion, the simple fact is that coal is the problem, not the solution. From the time of its extraction to its burning (at only 60% efficiency by the way) it is 100% negative impact on the environment. But we've known this for decades, and now we are well into the process of migrating our power grid toward greener energies, and no amount of scare tactics will change that because of one simple reason - capitalism - green energy is now profitable, the 10 and 11 figure investments are pouring in, and that's not going to change. And as usual, we are going to follow the money - in this case to a brighter more sustainable future.
NREC does a whale of a lot more than “oversees the reliability of the nation’s grid”, it lobbies and promotes for the fossil fuel industry. So, it is hardly a reliable, independent unbiased source of facts necessary to establish public energy policy! And neither is this guy! Beware and forewarned!
His kind has “warned” us for years about the threat posed by the rapid loss of baseload power plants. “In fact, its new summer 2023 reliability assessment found that two-thirds of the nation now faces an elevated risk of blackouts during extended heatwaves”. Wonder why we are experiencing extended heatwaves? Anthropogenic global climate change…we burn things, we don’t seem to be able to stop before people are dying in the streets, towns, farms, coastal areas, everywhere. They already are, and it is very expensive.
We are headed for a really nasty period in human history that includes unprecedented famine, starvation, civil and resource wars, and the end of the world as we know it, in a large part because of people like this author and those he works for who care a lot more about personal short term gain than sustainability. I wonder, are they ignorant or just plain stupid?
Obviously to me Jarrett is fear mongering and is working as a paid shill for the anti environmentalists operating big Coal and Oil in their quest in profiteering at all cost to the planet and our children’s future .
He says fallacies about the EPA and electricity shortages as if he can look at the future in a crystal ball ? We know that’s a myth.
E stands for ENVIRONMENTAL- P stands for PROTECTION.
That means to protect the air we breathe, the ground we grow our food in and the water we drink and catch more food from.
With renewable clean energy, we will always have electricity without destroying our environment and ecology , plus in doing so ,a better economy that isn’t a death economy, like we have that’s polluting our world and our children’s world.
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Relax, just more reactionary fear mongering with a plethora of cherry-picking and straw man 'arguments' thrown in to replace the logic. No matter who is paying for your opinion, the simple fact is that coal is the problem, not the solution. From the time of its extraction to its burning (at only 60% efficiency by the way) it is 100% negative impact on the environment. But we've known this for decades, and now we are well into the process of migrating our power grid toward greener energies, and no amount of scare tactics will change that because of one simple reason - capitalism - green energy is now profitable, the 10 and 11 figure investments are pouring in, and that's not going to change. And as usual, we are going to follow the money - in this case to a brighter more sustainable future.
NREC does a whale of a lot more than “oversees the reliability of the nation’s grid”, it lobbies and promotes for the fossil fuel industry. So, it is hardly a reliable, independent unbiased source of facts necessary to establish public energy policy! And neither is this guy! Beware and forewarned!
His kind has “warned” us for years about the threat posed by the rapid loss of baseload power plants. “In fact, its new summer 2023 reliability assessment found that two-thirds of the nation now faces an elevated risk of blackouts during extended heatwaves”. Wonder why we are experiencing extended heatwaves? Anthropogenic global climate change…we burn things, we don’t seem to be able to stop before people are dying in the streets, towns, farms, coastal areas, everywhere. They already are, and it is very expensive.
We are headed for a really nasty period in human history that includes unprecedented famine, starvation, civil and resource wars, and the end of the world as we know it, in a large part because of people like this author and those he works for who care a lot more about personal short term gain than sustainability. I wonder, are they ignorant or just plain stupid?
Obviously to me Jarrett is fear mongering and is working as a paid shill for the anti environmentalists operating big Coal and Oil in their quest in profiteering at all cost to the planet and our children’s future .
He says fallacies about the EPA and electricity shortages as if he can look at the future in a crystal ball ? We know that’s a myth.
E stands for ENVIRONMENTAL- P stands for PROTECTION.
That means to protect the air we breathe, the ground we grow our food in and the water we drink and catch more food from.
With renewable clean energy, we will always have electricity without destroying our environment and ecology , plus in doing so ,a better economy that isn’t a death economy, like we have that’s polluting our world and our children’s world.
WTF? What about the looming crisis of our losing all of humanity and most of the world's animals due to global warming because of fossil fuel use?
Eggs Actly!
And the author says all that with that gobshite eating grin on his face ?!
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Keep comments focused on the article or commentary in question. Don’t use an article about the Frankfort City Commission, for example, to rant about national politics.
Hyperpartisanship that suggests anyone on the other side of an issue or anyone in a particular particular party is evil is not welcome. If you believe that all Democrats are socialists intent on destroying America or that all Republicans are racists, there are lots of places on the internet for you to espouse those views. State-Journal.com is not one.
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