Category Archives: Electrical Power Grid

You Must Read About 10,000 Books to Understand What is Happening; But These Videos Will Give a Head Start

Posted on 13 February, 2023 by alfin2101

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 →

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Surviving a Fake Climate Apocalypse is Going to be Harder than Surviving a Real One Would Have Been

Posted on 20 January, 2023 by alfin2101

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 →

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Europe’s Wind Fantasy vs. Russian Energy Realpolitik

Posted on 4 December, 2022 by alfin2101

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 →

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Wagner Group HQ Destroyed; 100 Mercenaries Dead

Posted on 17 August, 2022 by alfin2101

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 →

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How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age

Posted on 22 February, 2021 by alfin2101

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 →

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Texas Power Failures Look Like California!

Posted on 16 February, 2021 by alfin2101

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 →

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Effective Power at the Flip of a Switch

Posted on 18 December, 2020 by alfin2101

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!

Posted on 22 February, 2020 by alfin2101

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!

Posted on 3 February, 2020 by alfin2101

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 →

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“The Current War” Then and Now

Posted on 31 October, 2019 by alfin2101

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 →

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Make the World Go Away

Posted on 25 June, 2019 by alfin2101

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 →

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South African Power Company Eskom in Death Spiral

Posted on 7 January, 2019 by alfin2101

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 →

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Coal is Just Getting its “Second Wind”

Posted on 4 December, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Wind Power’s Limits to Growth

Posted on 19 May, 2018 by alfin2101

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?

Posted on 13 May, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”

Posted on 25 April, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Where Would We Be Without Renewable Energy?

Posted on 6 February, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Fossil Fuels Beat Greens Into Submission

Posted on 6 December, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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How California Can Secede from US, and the World

Posted on 15 October, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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Solar Panels: 300X More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear

Posted on 29 June, 2017 by alfin2101

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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This’ll Kill Ya: They’re Coming For Your Electric Power

Posted on 22 June, 2017 by alfin2101

Up to 90% of the inhabitants of advanced nations would die within one year, if all electrical power were lost. No, I Am Not Talking About Electromagnetic Pulse Although both North Korea and Iran are steadily working to build the … Continue reading →

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Making Your Home Self Sufficient in Power and Heat

Posted on 20 April, 2017 by alfin2101

Making Your Own Heat and Electricity In Any Climate or Location Suddenly it is becoming possible to make all the electricity and heat for your home that you could need — no matter your latitude or weather conditions. Using “micro … Continue reading →

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There Is No Future Without Power

Posted on 7 April, 2017 by alfin2101

What Does Energy Suicide Look Like? With the best of stated intentions, Germany is cutting its own throat. The unfolding disaster called Energiewende is slowly but surely destroying the foundations of Deutschland’s industrial base, thus destroying Germany’s economy in a … Continue reading →

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Green Energy is an Unimitigated Disaster

Posted on 13 March, 2017 by alfin2101

Germany, Australia, and Ontario — among other jurisdictions — made catastrophic errors in judgment when they committed their constituents to a dependency on unreliable, unaffordable, poor quality wind and solar energy. Now, these governments are beginning to pay the price … Continue reading →

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Why the World is Turning to Coal: It Works!

Posted on 20 February, 2017 by alfin2101

Per a report from the World Coal Association, there [are] currently 861 billion tons of proven coal reserves worldwide, implying that there is enough coal to last nearly 112 years at current rates of production. In comparison with this, proven … Continue reading →

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