Cheney's continued abysmal polling is the real story here. Although I wouldn't expect Trump to out-poll DeSantis in Wyoming, that poll shows DeSantis has displaced Trump at the top of the ticket in flyover states.
So they prefer a Navy Officer Veteran to a NYC developer like the ones ruining Jackson and Laramie right now, like Market Equities is seeking to do in Yellowstone.
Trump was invariably right way more than wrong, but it does seem his time has past.
More numbers and shit about the green gaia unicorn world of utility scale battery shortage. Anyone supporting solar and wind as cheap, green, renewable energy is both lying and delusional. This is the sort of easy math that the green's want banned from the public arena. What would happen if a high school math teacher made the kiddies do a few math problems on the futility of batteries? Rhetorical question. We don't teach the basics. Energy density? What's that?
Consider the case of Germany, the country that has gone the farthest of any in the world down the road to “energy transition.” My Report presents two different calculations of the energy storage requirement for Germany in a world of a wind/solar grid and no fossil fuels allowed…. One of the calculations, by a guy named Roger Andrews, came to a requirement of approximately 25,000 GWh; and the other, by two authors named Ruhnau and Qvist, came to a higher figure of 56,000 GWh. The two use similar but not identical methodology, and somewhat different assumptions. Clearly there is a large range of uncertainty as to the actual requirement; but the two calculations cited give a reasonable range for the scope of the problem. *** And against these projections of a storage requirement in the range of tens of thousands of GWh, what are Germany’s plans as presented in this “20-fold expansion” by 2031? From my Report:
In the case of Germany, Wood Mackenzie states that the planned energy storage capacity for 2031, following the 20-fold expansion, is 8.81GWh.
Rather than tens of thousands of GWh, it’s single digits. How does that stack up in percentage terms against the projected requirements?:
In other words, the amount of energy storage that Germany is planning for 2031 is between 0.016% and 0.036% of what it actually would need. This does not qualify as a serious effort to produce a system that might work.
This absurd situation is duplicated in every other jurisdiction that has purported to mandate wind and solar energy. For example, California:
The Report cites another article from Utility Dive stating that the California Public Utilities Commission has ordered the state’s power providers to collectively procure by 2026 some 10.5 GW (or 42.0 GWh) of lithium-ion batteries for grid-scale storage:
The additional 10.5 GW of lithium-ion storage capacity, translating to at most about 42 GWh, would take California all the way to about 0.17% of the energy storage it would need to fully back up a wind/solar generation system.
This is a joke. There are nowhere near enough batteries in the world to back up the world’s need for electricity, nor will there ever be. My colleague Isaac Orr prepared this simple graph, which shows the entire battery capacity of the world as projected in 2030 against the electricity consumption of a single state, Minnesota:
Is there a single place, anywhere in the world, that has actually satisfied its citizens’ need for electricity through wind or solar energy, plus batteries, as liberals now demand for all of us? No, actually, there isn’t:
Here’s what tells you all you need to know: not only is there no working demonstration project anywhere in the world of the wind/solar/storage energy system, but there is none under construction and none even proposed.
The whole green energy project is a gigantic fraud. A handful of shysters are getting rich, along with some activists and politicians, while the rest of us will be left holding the bag. In the dark.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., endured a politically rough day Tuesday.
First, a permitting reform bill that Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had agreed upon was excluded from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Manchin had pushed for energy-permit refoms, including speeding up environmental reviews, expediting priority fossil and renewable projects, beefing up transmission lines, and securing the approval of a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia.
But congressional negotiators on Tuesday reached an NDAA agreement that excludes Manchin's permitting reform legislation, the Washington Examiner reported.
Schumer had cut the deal with Manchin in exchange for support of President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
Manchin's side deal with Schumer would have expedited the environmental review process of infrastructure and energy projects.
Last month, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the top-ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said there was "zero chance" of adding permitting reform to the NDAA, The Hill reported.
Manchin then tried to strike a deal in the lame-duck session. However, GOP members and liberal Democrats balked.
Republicans also knew Manchin's seat could be up for grabs in 2024. GOP strategists say they expect Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to spend millions in an effort to oust Manchin.
"Failing to pass bipartisan energy permitting reform that both Republicans and Democrats have called for will have long-term consequences for our energy independence," Manchin said in a statement tweeted on Tuesday night.
"The American people will pay the steepest price for Washington once again failing to put commonsense policy ahead of toxic tribal politics. That is why the American people hate politics in Washington."
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., endured a politically rough day Tuesday.
First, a permitting reform bill that Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had agreed upon was excluded from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Manchin had pushed for energy-permit refoms, including speeding up environmental reviews, expediting priority fossil and renewable projects, beefing up transmission lines, and securing the approval of a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia.
But congressional negotiators on Tuesday reached an NDAA agreement that excludes Manchin's permitting reform legislation, the Washington Examiner reported.
Schumer had cut the deal with Manchin in exchange for support of President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
Manchin's side deal with Schumer would have expedited the environmental review process of infrastructure and energy projects.
Last month, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the top-ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said there was "zero chance" of adding permitting reform to the NDAA, The Hill reported.
Manchin then tried to strike a deal in the lame-duck session. However, GOP members and liberal Democrats balked.
Republicans also knew Manchin's seat could be up for grabs in 2024. GOP strategists say they expect Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to spend millions in an effort to oust Manchin.
"Failing to pass bipartisan energy permitting reform that both Republicans and Democrats have called for will have long-term consequences for our energy independence," Manchin said in a statement tweeted on Tuesday night.
"The American people will pay the steepest price for Washington once again failing to put commonsense policy ahead of toxic tribal politics. That is why the American people hate politics in Washington."
Go GOP
Imagine trusting a devil like Schumer. Or McConnell for that matter.
I've always have asked, "What is the functional difference between say the dazzler or mello and a Washington Post reporter with a grad degree from the Columbia School of journalism?" Now we know.
HEH: New AI Chatbot Covers For Biden, Says Rachel Levine Is A Woman. Can It Replace The Washington Post?
At first glance, an online entity that “discovers new knowledge” with the capability to generate written content for a broad audience sounds an awful lot like a journalist. Below are some simple questions presented to the chatbot to discover what kind of journalist this character of artificial intelligence might be. … “The concept of gender is complex and can be difficult to define, as it can refer to a person’s biological sex, their gender identity, or their gender expression,” wrote the computer. “Because of this complexity, it’s difficult to say exactly how many genders there are.” … When independent journalist Jordan Schachtel asked the AI which killed more children, the demonstrations on Jan. 6 or President Joe Biden’s drone strikes, the computer covered for the White House.
“President Biden has not carried out any drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of children,” the computer wrote, oblivious to a drone strike in Kabul last year that killed 7 kids.
Schachtel also asked the AI machine if “communism is bad.”
“Whether communism is ‘bad’ is a matter of debate and depends on one’s perspective,” the computer wrote.
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Cheney's continued abysmal polling is the real story here. Although I wouldn't expect Trump to out-poll DeSantis in Wyoming, that poll shows DeSantis has displaced Trump at the top of the ticket in flyover states.
So they prefer a Navy Officer Veteran to a NYC developer like the ones ruining Jackson and Laramie right now, like Market Equities is seeking to do in Yellowstone.
Trump was invariably right way more than wrong, but it does seem his time has past.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/battery-storage-is-a-fantasy.php
Thus, for example:
Consider the case of Germany, the country that has gone the farthest of any in the world down the road to “energy transition.” My Report presents two different calculations of the energy storage requirement for Germany in a world of a wind/solar grid and no fossil fuels allowed…. One of the calculations, by a guy named Roger Andrews, came to a requirement of approximately 25,000 GWh; and the other, by two authors named Ruhnau and Qvist, came to a higher figure of 56,000 GWh. The two use similar but not identical methodology, and somewhat different assumptions. Clearly there is a large range of uncertainty as to the actual requirement; but the two calculations cited give a reasonable range for the scope of the problem.
***
And against these projections of a storage requirement in the range of tens of thousands of GWh, what are Germany’s plans as presented in this “20-fold expansion” by 2031? From my Report:
In the case of Germany, Wood Mackenzie states that the planned energy storage capacity for 2031, following the 20-fold expansion, is 8.81GWh.
Rather than tens of thousands of GWh, it’s single digits. How does that stack up in percentage terms against the projected requirements?:
In other words, the amount of energy storage that Germany is planning for 2031 is between 0.016% and 0.036% of what it actually would need. This does not qualify as a serious effort to produce a system that might work.
This absurd situation is duplicated in every other jurisdiction that has purported to mandate wind and solar energy. For example, California:
The Report cites another article from Utility Dive stating that the California Public Utilities Commission has ordered the state’s power providers to collectively procure by 2026 some 10.5 GW (or 42.0 GWh) of lithium-ion batteries for grid-scale storage:
The additional 10.5 GW of lithium-ion storage capacity, translating to at most about 42 GWh, would take California all the way to about 0.17% of the energy storage it would need to fully back up a wind/solar generation system.
This is a joke. There are nowhere near enough batteries in the world to back up the world’s need for electricity, nor will there ever be. My colleague Isaac Orr prepared this simple graph, which shows the entire battery capacity of the world as projected in 2030 against the electricity consumption of a single state, Minnesota:
Is there a single place, anywhere in the world, that has actually satisfied its citizens’ need for electricity through wind or solar energy, plus batteries, as liberals now demand for all of us? No, actually, there isn’t:
Here’s what tells you all you need to know: not only is there no working demonstration project anywhere in the world of the wind/solar/storage energy system, but there is none under construction and none even proposed.
The whole green energy project is a gigantic fraud. A handful of shysters are getting rich, along with some activists and politicians, while the rest of us will be left holding the bag. In the dark.
F’n
Night
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., endured a politically rough day Tuesday.
First, a permitting reform bill that Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had agreed upon was excluded from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Manchin had pushed for energy-permit refoms, including speeding up environmental reviews, expediting priority fossil and renewable projects, beefing up transmission lines, and securing the approval of a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia.
But congressional negotiators on Tuesday reached an NDAA agreement that excludes Manchin's permitting reform legislation, the Washington Examiner reported.
Schumer had cut the deal with Manchin in exchange for support of President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
Manchin's side deal with Schumer would have expedited the environmental review process of infrastructure and energy projects.
Last month, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the top-ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said there was "zero chance" of adding permitting reform to the NDAA, The Hill reported.
Manchin then tried to strike a deal in the lame-duck session. However, GOP members and liberal Democrats balked.
Republicans also knew Manchin's seat could be up for grabs in 2024. GOP strategists say they expect Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to spend millions in an effort to oust Manchin.
"Failing to pass bipartisan energy permitting reform that both Republicans and Democrats have called for will have long-term consequences for our energy independence," Manchin said in a statement tweeted on Tuesday night.
"The American people will pay the steepest price for Washington once again failing to put commonsense policy ahead of toxic tribal politics. That is why the American people hate politics in Washington."
Go GOP
Nothing to see here. Just The FBI CIA etc. colluding with big tech and leftyloon media to effect elections. BideBros are still cheering.
https://instapundit.com/
HEH: New AI Chatbot Covers For Biden, Says Rachel Levine Is A Woman. Can It Replace The Washington Post?
At first glance, an online entity that “discovers new knowledge” with the capability to generate written content for a broad audience sounds an awful lot like a journalist. Below are some simple questions presented to the chatbot to discover what kind of journalist this character of artificial intelligence might be.
…
“The concept of gender is complex and can be difficult to define, as it can refer to a person’s biological sex, their gender identity, or their gender expression,” wrote the computer. “Because of this complexity, it’s difficult to say exactly how many genders there are.”
…
When independent journalist Jordan Schachtel asked the AI which killed more children, the demonstrations on Jan. 6 or President Joe Biden’s drone strikes, the computer covered for the White House.
“President Biden has not carried out any drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of children,” the computer wrote, oblivious to a drone strike in Kabul last year that killed 7 kids.
Schachtel also asked the AI machine if “communism is bad.”
“Whether communism is ‘bad’ is a matter of debate and depends on one’s perspective,” the computer wrote.
Nothing can replace the Washington Post, easily.