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Category Archives: Electrical Power Grid
I Picked the Wrong Century to Start Believing in Peak Oil
The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row. Crude oil production in the United States, including condensate, averaged 12.9 million barrels per … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Peak Oil
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Good Elon / Bad Elon : Power Grid, AI, Crappy Energy
“I’ve never seen any technology advance faster than this.” The chip shortage may be behind us, but AI and EVs are expanding at such a rapacious rate that the world will face supply crunches in electricity and transformers next year, … Continue reading
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Climate Apocalypse and Peak Oil Armageddon Meet the Funky Chicken of Doom: Nate Hagens Meets Doomberg
Nate Hagens runs the YouTube channel “The Great Simiplification.” Nate is a true believer in climate apocalypse and peak oil armageddon. He is friends with many left radical environmentalists who promote the large-scale engineered reduction of Earth’s human population in … Continue reading
Posted in coal, Coming Anarchy, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Germany, intermittent unreliable energy
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After Viewing the Movie “Oppenheimer,” Biden Orders a Repeat Nuke Strike on Hiroshima
In the middle of a White House viewing of the box office hit movie “Oppenheimer,” Biden stood up and yelled for the Joint Chief of Staffs to be convened immediately. “It just came to me all of a sudden,” Biden … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire, satire
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Africa’s Golden Age Ending Before It’s Begun
The image below comes from NASA in 2012. It shows Africa at its peak, before the great electrical grid collapse of the dark continent. The African Power Grid is Collapsing, Starting in South Africa; Why? In recent years South Africa’s … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Demographics, Electrical Power Grid, Energy
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You Must Read About 10,000 Books to Understand What is Happening; But These Videos Will Give a Head Start
The benefit of understanding the processes upholding our worlds, is that it becomes more difficult for our overlords to bamboozle and hornswoggle us. If we allow ourselves to be deceived over some particular issues, we may be signing our own … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Idiocy
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Surviving a Fake Climate Apocalypse is Going to be Harder than Surviving a Real One Would Have Been
We are supposed to be undergoing a genuine climate apocalypse, according to the corporate media mainstream information gatekeepers. According to these highly placed persons of limited intellect and even more limited knowledge, we have been on the verge of — … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Environment
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Europe’s Wind Fantasy vs. Russian Energy Realpolitik
Dreams of powering huge electric power grids using nothing but wind and solar energy, have always been more fantasy than reality — although European politicians and pundits would never admit that. For decades, Germany’s leaders have pretended to base their … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Europe, Wind
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Wagner Group HQ Destroyed; 100 Mercenaries Dead
As many as 100 mercenaries are believed to have been killed in the massive strike, including several deputy chiefs. Yevgeny Prigozhin is not believed to have been killed in the strike. Prigozhin, often referred to as “Putin’s chief,” had not … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Germany, Russia, Ukraine
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How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age
The arctic blasts of cold weather known as polar vortices, are just a foretaste of what is coming, as the long overdue “coming ice age” bears down on human civilization, with a vengeance. When the deep cold finally hits us, … Continue reading
Texas Power Failures Look Like California!
Like California, Texas went all-in for big wind turbine farms. And like California, Texas is beginning to suffer the high prices, low reliability, and blackouts that California has been living with ever since it jumped into the green energy swamp. … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Wind
Tagged Green Idiocy, leftist idiocy
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Effective Power at the Flip of a Switch
Unlike intermittent energy schemes based on wind and sun, nuclear fusion offers the promise of useful power when you want it. And unlike the cash guzzling “government fusion” project ITER, private fusion is showing actual promise within a meaningful time … Continue reading
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Asia is Going Gangbusters for Coal!
Don’t write the obituary for coal just yet. In many lands near the end of global energy supply lines — China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, even India — coal is booming like never before! China and India are home to over … Continue reading
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Junk Electricity: Don’t Be a Sucker!
If the system has more power than it needs at any instant, its frequency will increase. If there is not enough power to meet demand at any time, the system frequency falls. … Sometimes AEMO [Australian Energy Market Operator] detects … Continue reading
“The Current War” Then and Now
The Current War is a movie depicting the fierce early 20th century contest between electrical pioneers Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whether Direct Current (DC) or Alternating Current (AC) electricity would power the homes and the rapidly growing … Continue reading
Make the World Go Away
Intelligent readers can see the contradiction in the graph above: In order to achieve the “global decarbonisation” called for by the world green movement, the world as we know it must cease to exist… and an alternate universe must come … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Power, Uncategorized
Tagged energy, Fusion Reactor
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South African Power Company Eskom in Death Spiral
Eskom is now in a death or debt spiral – or arguably both – as it engages in a stand-off with the government. __ Antigone Miltiadous A few years after South Africa changed to a popular rule system of government, … Continue reading
Coal is Just Getting its “Second Wind”
Coal Power Plants Expand Globally … In 2017, after two years of declines, International Energy Agency figures showed global coal demand rising to 5.357 million tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE). __ Coal is King of the World China is building … Continue reading
Wind Power’s Limits to Growth
Every technology contains an innate “economy of scale” for the system within which it operates. As seen in the graph below, grid-scale wind energy is beginning to run into inherent limits of applicability in US power grids: The amount of … Continue reading
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Donald Trump: Alone Against the Apocalypse?
Fighting Chaos with Chaos? Trump as “Chaos-Master” Faces Down Forces of Doom From its start, the Trump administration has been plagued by charges of “chaos.” From the revolving door of senior staffers — including two secretaries of state, three national … Continue reading
Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”
Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading
Where Would We Be Without Renewable Energy?
Big wind and solar were supposed to replace coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants . . . any time now. And yet, something is happening to global investment in big wind and solar that calls the entire “renewables revolution” … Continue reading
Fossil Fuels Beat Greens Into Submission
Continue to Supply Over 80% of World’s Energy Needs Every year since 1971, more than 80% of all our energy has come from fossil fuels. That’s still true today, which is surprising for two reasons. Most nuclear power plants came … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire, Nuclear Power
Tagged Green Idiocy, Nuclear Energy
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How California Can Secede from US, and the World
Kim’s Missiles Can Reach California With this year’s revelation that North Korea’s nuke-tipped missiles could likely reach the West Coast of United States, a more insidious threat has gained prominence—an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. While not deadly on its own, … Continue reading
Solar Panels: 300X More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear
Governments of Europe and California are willing to lay waste to their economies in pursuit of unreliable and destructive forms of energy — big solar and big wind. We already knew that these untrustworthy forms of energy bring instability to … Continue reading
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