Folks... Remember Biden's guarantee: "I guarantee We Are Going To Get Rid of Fossil Fuels”

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September 06, 2019, 5:49 PM

Well guess what folks!!!
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently.
Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent major upgrades.
Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma.
The soaring demand is touching off a scramble to try to squeeze more juice out of an aging power grid while pushing commercial customers to go to extraordinary lengths to lock down energy sources, such as building their own power plants.

NOW remember again Biden's promised to get rid of 60% of electricity generating by fossil fuel plants!
How f...king DUMB!!!
 
Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
Not to mention digital currency mining operations and the MASSIVE amount of electricity that they consume.
 
September 06, 2019, 5:49 PM

Well guess what folks!!!
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently.
Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent major upgrades.
Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma.
The soaring demand is touching off a scramble to try to squeeze more juice out of an aging power grid while pushing commercial customers to go to extraordinary lengths to lock down energy sources, such as building their own power plants.

NOW remember again Biden's promised to get rid of 60% of electricity generating by fossil fuel plants!
How f...king DUMB!!!
Creating issues that they know are destructive and the other side will fight.

Only thing democrats are any good at is chaos, fraud, and screwing people out of their money.
 
China is building coal fired power plants.
And we - USA are shutting down ours even though they are cleaner and less polluting than China's.
EPA mandates from a few decades ago had USA coal fired power plants install scrubbers to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) making the exhaust flue almost 100% water vapor and CO2. A combination that has boosted plant growth near those power plants.

Flue-gas desulfurization - Wikipedia

What is Flue Gas Desulfurization? | Wastewater Digest

Flue-Gas Desulphurization - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

etc.
 
Global annual renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50% to nearly 510 gigawatts (GW) in 2023, the fastest growth rate in the past two decades. This is the 22nd year in a row that renewable capacity additions set a new record. While the increases in renewable capacity in Europe, the United States and Brazil hit all-time highs, China’s acceleration was extraordinary. In 2023, China commissioned as much solar PV as the entire world did in 2022, while its wind additions also grew by 66% year-on-year.

 
Global annual renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50% to nearly 510 gigawatts (GW) in 2023, the fastest growth rate in the past two decades. This is the 22nd year in a row that renewable capacity additions set a new record. While the increases in renewable capacity in Europe, the United States and Brazil hit all-time highs, China’s acceleration was extraordinary. In 2023, China commissioned as much solar PV as the entire world did in 2022, while its wind additions also grew by 66% year-on-year.

People dont seem to understand is that countries like the US and China get their energy from different sources. Just because China is building a few coal fired plants doesnt mean they arent also expanding other areas of energy production.
 
September 06, 2019, 5:49 PM

Well guess what folks!!!
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently.
Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent major upgrades.
Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma.
The soaring demand is touching off a scramble to try to squeeze more juice out of an aging power grid while pushing commercial customers to go to extraordinary lengths to lock down energy sources, such as building their own power plants.

NOW remember again Biden's promised to get rid of 60% of electricity generating by fossil fuel plants!
How f...king DUMB!!!
LOL Did you even read your link? The Problem is with the local state infrastructure. The article specifically mentions Georgia.

Not only that… why are we having this issue now? Again, from your link…

Data center operators are clamoring to hook up to regional electricity grids at the same time the Biden administration’s industrial policy is luring companies to build factories in the United States at a pace not seen in decades. That includes manufacturers of “clean tech,” such as solar panels and electric car batteries, which are being enticed by lucrative federal incentives. Companies announced plans to build or expand more than 155 factories in this country during the first half of the Biden administration, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a research and development organization. Not since the early 1990s has factory-building accounted for such a large share of U.S. construction spending, according to the group.

In other words... the problems we are encountering is because President Biden is doing his job of bringing in companies on US soil to provide jobs and a better standard of living for the American people.

Would you rather have the old days under the orange douchebag where our jobs were exported to China? I'll bet your response would be yes, you fucking traitor.
 
Like Gay Barry said - "Never underestimate the ability of Joe Potatohead to fuck things up".

Or Justice Thomas - "Joe Potatohead is one the dumbest people I have ever met".

"Hey, lets do away with the major source of energy in the world, what could possibly go wrong?".
 

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