flacaltenn
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Lemme simplify that last post..
What RockPort GENERATED is just business news. What Rockport actually CONSUMED -- is the only relevent part of the claim. And indeed, 2 days a week or more (statistically) and maybe twice a day for hours, they were a fossil fuel consumer like everyone else around them. That in fact contradicts their "100% wind energy city" status..
But the more important bit is -- they're happy to pump this charade for all it's worth -- while leaving the grid mgrs and their neighbors' coal plant next door hanging on for dear life trying to juggle it all..
So when the neighbor decides that they can't rely on RockPort as a solid customer anymore and buckles to the EPA on the coal plant. They will replace it with something better matched to the ACTUAL grid needs and RockPort may get to have early cold dinners on Wednes and Fridays. And play shadow puppets by candlelight every 30 minutes til the wind kicks up..
I could dance my way thru "The 1st Home in Tennessee to be 100% Powered by Christmas Trees" by going around the county in early January and collecting Christmas Trees to sell to the local incinerator/boiler (biomass conversion -- very Green with the recycling aspect and all)..
What RockPort GENERATED is just business news. What Rockport actually CONSUMED -- is the only relevent part of the claim. And indeed, 2 days a week or more (statistically) and maybe twice a day for hours, they were a fossil fuel consumer like everyone else around them. That in fact contradicts their "100% wind energy city" status..
But the more important bit is -- they're happy to pump this charade for all it's worth -- while leaving the grid mgrs and their neighbors' coal plant next door hanging on for dear life trying to juggle it all..
So when the neighbor decides that they can't rely on RockPort as a solid customer anymore and buckles to the EPA on the coal plant. They will replace it with something better matched to the ACTUAL grid needs and RockPort may get to have early cold dinners on Wednes and Fridays. And play shadow puppets by candlelight every 30 minutes til the wind kicks up..
I could dance my way thru "The 1st Home in Tennessee to be 100% Powered by Christmas Trees" by going around the county in early January and collecting Christmas Trees to sell to the local incinerator/boiler (biomass conversion -- very Green with the recycling aspect and all)..
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