Green energy disaster: power prices soaring as wind stops blowing for periods | Eastern NC Now
weather dependant wind and solar is expensive and unreliable
Using wind turbines to make electricity is expensive and unreliable. One of its flaws is that "wind droughts" happen where the wind just stops blowing for days, weeks, or even months. A few years ago, Germany and the UK were hit hard by wind droughts that lasted months, where their wind turbines produced little or no electricity. It was only power imports from coal fired Poland and nuclear powered France that kept the lights on.
Now that EU Green Deal policies have strongarmed Poland into using more wind power, they have been hit with a wind drought that has caused their power prices to soar for families, while many induxtries simply had their power cut off to keep the grid up.
Mickey Mouse power production by wind and solar is nothing but a disaster for consumers, whether families or businesses.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/10/31/brits-count-mounting-staggering-wind-power-subsidy-cost/
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2 deer killed at night within 2 days, at SAME spot.
That makes one each day of this weekend. I think City of Washington may need a deer crossing warning sign here on west 5th street. Or... the NC transportation Dept should slow the traffic down. 50 mph speed limit here near PC Sound, where all these houses have tiny driveways, that ppl need to almost stop to turn into, is too fast. All the overhead street lamps within the City limits, on 5th street, make deer crossing a friendly opportunity... except that at 50mph the deer are in danger from speeding vehicles. Even without the deer being killed...its too fast, because it is just a block from the traffic light where a busy intersection is being built up with multiple businesses. Hey Stan, may I suggest that you set up a comments board for "Daily Musings" around Washington, and Beaufort county? Local information is important to a healthy community. |
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Solar is just as bad. It stops producing every night with reducing production in late afternoon and early morning. Other weatehr conditions like rain, clouds, snow, frost, fog, etc. also reduce or eliminate power production from solar. Wind and solar are indeed expensive and unreliable.
Power prices in wind and solar obsessed Germany are the highest in the world and that is causing an upsurge in bankruptcies of German companies, as well as German companies moving abroad. Wind and solar are a sure way to kill an economy. |
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by Rev. Mark Creech
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says in-state tuition for illegal aliens is illegal under federal immigration law
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corrupt Biden autopen judge thinks he wears a purple robe and a crown
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Tillis had no problem approving some really nasty Obama and Biden appointees
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another DEI scheme shot down
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DEI is a mixture of socialism and racism
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hundreds of them voted.
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pay for play rides again
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“Neville Singham has been a mechanism and funding arm of the Chinese Communist Party.”
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illegal aliens are a major part of crime throughout Europe
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illegal alien "asylum seeker" migrants are a crime wave on both sides of the Atlantic
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Making good decisions about planning will improve healthcare for Beaufort County and ENC residents.
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Once again big brother is watching
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to fill Lindsay Graham seat
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wrongful stops and possible people tacking including cell phones
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travesty on fee speech and religious liberty
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his crimes should be discovered and prosecuted
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Within the last hour, I think abt 60 speeding cars have run over the carcass smearing it all over 5th street. Soon there will be nothing left of it but mush & crushed bones.
The cars are going 50 mph and so they cant see it in time to move over.
I think City of Washington may need a deer crossing warning sign here on west 5th street. Or... the NC transportation Dept should slow the traffic down. 50 mph speed limit here in the city limts is too fast here, where all these houses have tiny driveways, that ppl need to almost stop to turn into, is too fast.
We asked the NC dept of Transportation to slow the traffic, but they said the City of Washington didnt want it slowed.
We asked the city police to call someone to move it, the dispatcher told me the highway is not their jurisdiction.
At 50mph the deer are in danger from speeding vehicles, & the people are in danger too. 50 mph is too fast