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RaceBannon
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State of Washington moving forward on a back door ban
Cities in California doing the same
Plenty of electricity available from unicorns and rainbows
Vote Democrat
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I read an article this morning where the regional power execs are all saying that electricity rates in the PNW are going to increase by double-digits every year for the next several years.
Also, the amount of energy that the tech companies are now using is mind-blowing. Just building electrical generating capacity to feed those machines is going to be a challenge.
Hope the enviros enjoy their brownouts.
People like @HHusky has theirs so fuck the poor loser-wage losers who suffer from these policies that dramatically increase energy rates.
What a steaming pile of shit you are, H.
@HuskyBuck, do you agree with Daddy H?
I’ve posted before the crazy amount of energy just one Bitcoin farm uses and it blew my mind.
New York city banned wood fired pizza ovens
Fascism on the march
FUCKED.
The Northwest is going to need 4,000 megawatts of additional generation — about 20% of the region’s current output — just to keep pace with power demand over the next five years, according to the most recent forecast by the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee, a trade association of consumer and investor-owned electricity utilities and other power industry interests.
That’s not counting another 1,600 megawatts in energy demand from more data centers that popped up in just the last several weeks, panelist and energy consultant Randy Hardy told the council. Hardy, a former superintendent of Seattle City Light and administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, said the region also needs to greatly expand and upgrade its transmission capacity to move all that electricity. But that is typically a slow, expensive process with lots of community opposition.
Rate increases to pay for it all could hit double digits back to back for years to come, Hardy warned. “How is the region going to react to that?”
Meanwhile, the increasing demands of electrification to help blunt the worst effects of climate change are still coming, with everything from cars to heating systems that presently run on fossil fuels being replaced by electricity. And climate commitments by regional governments to clean up their power supplies to be carbon neutral mean just turning on coal and gas plants to meet demand won’t be an option. Those resources are being powered down.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/surge-in-electricity-demand-spells-trouble-for-pnw-forecasts-show/
They’re hell bent on getting it through one way or another.
I think the new construction thing passes with some kickbacks to builders.
Then they’ll push renovations as well
The only way you’ll be able to use LNG is if you keep your 20yo kitchen as is and they’ll tax the shit out of that as well.
Germany went all in on the green gaia religion and found out that solar and wind don't produce cheap reliable renewable energy. It produces expensive non-reliable energy that needs to be totally backed up with coal, gas and nuclear energy. And yet Team dazzler is all in on following these suicide energy policies. However, when you want to spend hundreds of billions on expensive non-reliable energy there is plenty at the public trough for the pigs.
DEINDUSTRIALIZATION: German industry unlikely to fully recover from energy crisis, warns RWE boss.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder helped make Germany dependent on Russian energy then took high-paying jobs at Russian energy firms after leaving office.
Small nukes enter the chat....
You think the enviros are going to allow those? They'll cover all of Eastern WA in solar panels and wind farms before they go nukes.
Driving through the Gorge last week, a protected senic wonderland marred only by a bunch of fucking Chi com windmills
Ready for the coming Northwest power blackouts?
Even if you didn’t believe my warnings over the last decade, consider the latest report from the Northwest Power Council.
That’s the government agency charged with the job of keeping your lights turned on.
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c…
On Tuesday, they heard the region is already short 4,000 megawatts, and that doesn’t include the 1600 megawatts of brand new demand in the last few weeks: server farms that keep your Amazon on.
That’s five new nuclear power plants or five more lower Snake River Dams.
Only there ain’t any more of those on the way.
Instead, global warming true believers want to rip ALL the snake river dams out.
They want the 10 coal plants that push kilowatts into the region from other states gone.
Natural gas generates 20 percent.
Greenies say that’s gotta go too.
Wind turbines, you think?
Well, the average produces 3 megawatts…so we need a couple thousand more, AND the wind only blows one-third of every day…so triple that number.
And if you think forcing everyone to electrify their homes, at great cost, and switch to battery cars is gonna help, think again.
Me? I have plenty of gasoline, batteries, and candles.
And you thought it was Jihadis who were the ones taking us back to the 14th century.
People need to stop voting for retards
Umm, that's the way Italians make real pizza
WTF
Not any more!
That is a lost cause. Retarded voters in Washington greatly outnumber the non-retarded.