I’m saying the electric grid itself is already strained and near maximum capacity. Upgrades were put off year after yer after year ’cause ratepayers didn’t want to spring for the cost. Line are above ground ’cause it’s cheaper and easier and faster to string cables along poles vs digging trenches and burying cables.
Point being, transformers are blowing up on hot summer days when demand peaks, ice-storms and winds and falling trees knock down cables, and so on. Nothing to do with wind “turbans” or solar panels or coal-burning powerplants, but the infrastructure itself.
That’s an assload of eggs in one crumbling antiquated basket, that all the greenies are pushing to overload even more with everyone driving Teslas and Bolts, and houses being heated exclusively by electricity.
Even here (not sure if this is law yet, but it’s definitely in the works), but new construction of private houses is being forbidden the use of oil or propane or NG for heat, ie, electricity only. Are they retarded?
I had a blackout, yet was still able to cook and have hot water for a good long hot soak to warm up. If everything were all electricity, I’d have nothing, zero. I wouldn’t even be able to make coffee for myself. What am I supposed to do, crack open a bag of Kingsford and heat water on a hibachi indoors? I can imagine how many fires and cases of CO poisoning would result…
Point being, I’m not “blaming” turbines or solar panels (or coal-fired plants or nuke plants, for that matter). I’m blaming the greenies who are just technically and scientifically illiterate, pushing these feelgood ideas without thinking them through, or just plain without thinking. It’s like routing a fully-loaded 50-car freight train over the Cassandra Crossing. It just ain’t able to handle it. The infrastructure is not there. And what is there is inadequate.
Oh, and I can just imagine a directed cyberattack on the grid… right at times like this when the entire country’s seeing record cold (or heat).
Ho boy…