Shark01
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After seeing a couple of misguided posts, I thought I would provide clarity.
The “grid” is solely a way to move electricity from one place to another.
Electricity generation is our real problem and things have only gotten worse since I was in that industry 20+ years ago.
The problem with our nation is we want to be so stupid in how we generate electricity. We don’t want coal fired plants, even though coal is one of our most abundant resources. We don’t like nuclear, fine but dumb as nuclear is very inexpensive on a large scale basis.
In the 90s, natural gas fired plants were set to be our future. They run clean and are very compact on a per kW basis. Another abundant resource. Instead of huge power plants, these were going to be small enough to put it neighborhoods, handle peak loads because they are low maintenance. So of course, state governments discouraged them from being built and are now shuttering them….and the lemmings cheer.
So a grid is useless without the product, and stupidity reigns again.
The “grid” is solely a way to move electricity from one place to another.
Electricity generation is our real problem and things have only gotten worse since I was in that industry 20+ years ago.
The problem with our nation is we want to be so stupid in how we generate electricity. We don’t want coal fired plants, even though coal is one of our most abundant resources. We don’t like nuclear, fine but dumb as nuclear is very inexpensive on a large scale basis.
In the 90s, natural gas fired plants were set to be our future. They run clean and are very compact on a per kW basis. Another abundant resource. Instead of huge power plants, these were going to be small enough to put it neighborhoods, handle peak loads because they are low maintenance. So of course, state governments discouraged them from being built and are now shuttering them….and the lemmings cheer.
So a grid is useless without the product, and stupidity reigns again.
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