"Governor Swill" <governor.swill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:bgji84tsfpigvd6fk9gnjct09qn190akmi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| This is OneTwoThree's brain on drugs:
| >Dude - both cities are on the Pacific Gas and Electric grid, and
therefore
| >their electricity comes from whatever sources PG&E uses - nuclear,
natural
| >gas and hydro -
|
| Yup.
|
| >with less and less hydro as a percentage of the electricty
| >produced., due to global warming. (Actually due to the long drought
here
in
| >the west, but the leftbots say global warming)
|
| The percentage of energy contributed by hydro is growing smaller
| because demand keeps rising but we aren't building any new hydro power
| plants. But I forget, you're in the west, things are different there.
| Georgia broke a forty year record for drought last year. We've gotten
| a few more storm fronts this year and lots of pop ups, but it's not
| the sort of long, steady rain the reservoirs and water tables need.
| It's been a long time since I've seen a natural spring.
|
| >Real tough for anyone to say their electricity is ALL from hydro - once
its
| >on the grid you have no choice.
|
| The way it works is that if you sell electricity to somebody 300 miles
| from your plant, you put that amount onto the grid and it's delivered
| at the other end but by somebody else. If your generating company
| can't get orders for juice on the grid, you don't generate and aren't
| profitable. Otoh, if the plant you bought electricity from goes down,
| the clients 300 miles away won't notice because their actual power
| source is local.
%%%% I find it hillarious around here that the dirt people are complaining
about a coal fired TVA power plant dumping pollution into the air when in
the 70's and early 80's they shut down the building of a TVA nuclear power
plant and a TVA hydro plant that would have replaced the polluting coal
plant!
"This just in: At 7:52 EDT this morning, "I have a social conscience" was
offically replaced as the catch-phrase of the self-righteous moral
superiority with the even-more ambiguous..."I'm going Green..." -- Mallard
Fillmore, May 9, 2007
|
| Swill
| --
| No, his mind is not for rent
| To any God or government.
| Always hopeful, yet discontent,
| He knows changes arent permanent,
| But change is.
| http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
|
