SkisNH Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 9 hours ago, BOHICA said: Not 100% but more than most. Definitely not dependent on countries outside NA for energy. Where does the rest of your electricity come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 12, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, SkisNH said: Where does the rest of your electricity come from? Mostly hydro, some wind, and peaker gas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkisNH Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 23 minutes ago, BOHICA said: Mostly hydro, some wind, and peaker gas Sure it does....it comes on the same transmission lines as every other source. You have no idea if you are getting hydro or gas generated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkisNH Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Secondly, wind turbines don't produce enough voltage to travel very far...without the 10000volts of the gas fired plant you would need wind mills everywhere. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plissken Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 9:03 AM, Mag6240 said: Hmmm, let me take a guess - the city was built below sea level?? It was actually built above sea level. A lot of people don’t know that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plissken Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 2 hours ago, SkisNH said: Secondly, wind turbines don't produce enough voltage to travel very far...without the 10000volts of the gas fired plant you would need wind mills everywhere. Gas fired plants use step up transformers to increase their output up to more efficient transmission levels. The medium responsible for spinning turbines isn’t really a limiting factor in terms of what a step up transformer can increase the voltage to. The Grand Coulee dam has water spun turbines and utilizes 500 kV lines. They are currently planning a 525kV line to bring wind energy from Iowa to Chicago: The Soo Green Line has other benefits. As an HVDC line, its "line loss" of electricity due to heat would be less than in a traditional alternating current (AC) power line. And at 525 kilovolts, it would be able to push through considerably more electricity than a standard 345-kilovolt AC line. https://www.postbulletin.com/business/unique-underground-power-line-would-send-renewable-energy-from-midwest-to-eastern-markets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toslow Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 56 minutes ago, Plissken said: It was actually built above sea level. A lot of people don’t know that. Depending on where exactly one frames the area measured, roughly 50 percent of greater New Orleans lies above sea level. That's the good news. The bad news: It used to be 100 percent, before engineers accidentally sank half the city below the level of the sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 13, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 13, 2023 (edited) On 4/12/2023 at 6:39 AM, SkisNH said: Secondly, wind turbines don't produce enough voltage to travel very far...without the 10000volts of the gas fired plant you would need wind mills everywhere. That isn’t how electricity, generation, and transmission works you know nothing retard Edited April 13, 2023 by BOHICA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkisNH Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 2 hours ago, BOHICA said: That isn’t how electricity, generation, and transmission works you know nothing retard Explain what happened in TX when the state basically shutdown...not enough voltage and the grid cascaded and failed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 13, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 13, 2023 16 minutes ago, SkisNH said: Explain what happened in TX when the state basically shutdown...not enough voltage and the grid cascaded and failed... Load drags down voltage. To much load trips the system off. Texas lost load cause they lost a bunch of various forms of generation. Transformers step up or step down voltages via primary and secondary windings in a transformer. What voltage the generator generates at has nothing to do with if that voltage can be transformed to higher voltages. Each windmill has a transformer that steps up voltage, green pad mount, at which point it is sent to substations to step up higher voltages and sent onto grid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 4 minutes ago, BOHICA said: Load drags down voltage. To much load trips the system off. Texas lost load cause they lost a bunch of various forms of generation. Transformers step up or step down voltages via primary and secondary windings in a transformer. What voltage the generator generates at has nothing to do with if that voltage can be transformed to higher voltages. Each windmill has a transformer that steps up voltage, green pad mount, at which point it is sent to substations to step up higher voltages and sent onto grid. Only 2 forms are known to work flawlessly. Gas and oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 13, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 13, 2023 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Pete said: Only 2 forms are known to work flawlessly. Gas and oil. Oil is not used for electric generation in US on any measurable scale. Texas lost a lot of natural gas and coal generation in their big freeze Edited April 13, 2023 by BOHICA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 13, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 13, 2023 On 4/12/2023 at 9:52 AM, Plissken said: Gas fired plants use step up transformers to increase their output up to more efficient transmission levels. The medium responsible for spinning turbines isn’t really a limiting factor in terms of what a step up transformer can increase the voltage to. The Grand Coulee dam has water spun turbines and utilizes 500 kV lines. They are currently planning a 525kV line to bring wind energy from Iowa to Chicago: The Soo Green Line has other benefits. As an HVDC line, its "line loss" of electricity due to heat would be less than in a traditional alternating current (AC) power line. And at 525 kilovolts, it would be able to push through considerably more electricity than a standard 345-kilovolt AC line. https://www.postbulletin.com/business/unique-underground-power-line-would-send-renewable-energy-from-midwest-to-eastern-markets the guy your are replying too has absolutely zero knowledge in electricity based on his posts. It’s just regurgitated talking points from a very small sector of our retarded population in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Gimme your chargers: Thieves Are Targeting EV Chargers 171 Steven Symes Wed, April 12, 2023 at 9:00 AM CDT How did the industry not see this coming? A new report from The U.S. Sun highlights a problem we’ve seen touched on a few times already: thieves are targeting electric car chargers. We’re not talking about people getting robbed or having their car stolen as they sit and wait for it to charge, yet. Find out why the Canadian government has EV chargers that don’t even work here. The report focuses on thieves swiping the entire charging station from private residences or the charging cables from cars left unattended. With people having the chargers installed on the outside of their house, it invites people who are wanting to make quick money removing it in the middle of the night, something we’re shocked nobody thought about before. We’ve also seen reports from police departments that thieves have been targeting public EV chargers. After all, they’re loaded with copper and over valuable materials. That problem seems to be random and small at the moment, but with plans for the federal government to dramatically increase the number of remote electric car chargers, it could become common. While the expense of replacing a stolen charging cable or entire home charger will hit some people hard, it can also create an even bigger problem. If you rely on home charging to have enough juice to get around to your job and anywhere else daily, such a crime might dramatically alter how you get around. As for the public chargers, when those are targeted it could affect people’s ability to continue driving as they’re in the middle of a trip. Enough EV owners have reported the fast chargers often are down thanks to software problems. If those and other chargers won’t work because thieves stripped them of parts, that has the potential to leave drivers stranded and calling for a wrecker to take their vehicle to a working charging station. Unfortunately, thieves don’t respect EVs and their chargers just like how they love to steal cars that are being gassed up. We’ll see how this crime trend affects electric vehicle adoption moving forward. Source: The U.S. Sun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 14, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 Record rise in sea levels on the Chinese coast happening as well https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/china/china-sea-level-record-high-2022-climate-intl-hnk/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted April 14, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 Record sea level rise…ok….now what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted April 14, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 14 hours ago, Skidooski said: Record sea level rise…ok….now what? They can put the excess water in all the holes they digging for Lithium. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted April 14, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 35 minutes ago, Steve753 said: They can put the excess water in all the holes they digging for Lithium. Maybe, but one thing we do know is they will be back in a month crying about it again 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01mxz800 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 On 4/10/2023 at 7:37 PM, BOHICA said: Electricity is not a global traded commodity. Opec sneezed and the pump prices are up. We are energy dependent with oil. 100% of our electricity use is produced in North America. We don need to gargle on Arabian ball bags or send Americans off to foreign lands to die for oil prices like we have. 2 1/2 years ago we were enegry independant fucking liberals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted April 14, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 3 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said: 2 1/2 years ago we were enegry independant fucking liberals Won't say that. We just produced more than we imported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01mxz800 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, Steve753 said: Won't say that. We just produced more than we imported. we were exporting, now bidumbass wants to buy shit when we have here at home, we could easily supply our own needs and fuck the rest of the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted April 14, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 8 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said: we were exporting, now bidumbass wants to buy shit when we have here at home, we could easily supply our own needs and fuck the rest of the world Not a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gold Member BOHICA Posted April 14, 2023 Author Gold Member Share Posted April 14, 2023 15 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said: we were exporting, now bidumbass wants to buy shit when we have here at home, we could easily supply our own needs and fuck the rest of the world So you are against private companies in oil and want it all government run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01mxz800 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 7 minutes ago, BOHICA said: So you are against private companies in oil and want it all government run? I am in the petroleum business, fuck the government, only thing the government wants is complete control, keep the government out of it and stop these useless regulations and let the companies thrive instead fuck being tied to OPEC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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