Saw a report today that the energy department is predicting power shortages around much of the nation by the end of next year.
Due to the various Gubbermints here trying to reach stupid renewable energy targets to keep the green do gooders happy, a number of traditional coal fired power stations have been closed down. So far we have had 2 major grid shutdowns, the first taking out an entire state and the 2nd taking out most of it. Both cost industry HUNDREDS of millions. Steelworks came to grinding halts not to mention production in other facilities where a stoppage meant mass wastage.
Industries are now saying they are going to cancel expansion plans and look to go overseas where the power supply is more reliable. Great thing for the country that is and in the Big picture, saves Fuck all emissions, BS gasses and all the rest of it.
As well as an electricity shortage, the other resource this country is floating on, gas, is also coming into short supply. There have been a lot of bans put in place against Fracking ( which I am in favour of given it's more than established track record) but we are still exporting loads of gas overseas which makes no sense at all. Sell the food you have to make money while you starve to death yourself. Brilliant strategy!
I remember as a small boy blackouts were pretty common. Always lived in major City Surburbia but everyone had candles and matches and torches at the ready for regular use.
My Grandmother was always adamant on having a gas stove. My Grandfather was a shift worker and she maintained she could always cook him a hot dinner when he got home by candle light on a gas stove where having an electric left the completely unacceptable possibility of him not coming home at midnight or 5 am to a hot meal.
Gas shortages were unheard of then but Gran would be dissapointed now. Probably not really. She would have grandad install a 2nd Stove hooked up to bottled gas.
She was more concerned with him having a full on cooked dinner when he got home than he ever was as I recall.
Finally My roid and various engines and power generation setups may come into their own. I may well be the only one with lights on in the place before long. Don't know how long it will last though. We have a new political party on the scene now that offer's a real choice to the other clowns and they don't have any of the PC correctness on a whole range of things the other morons do. They are out to put the country and the average person first rather than look after themselves and their elite bum chums.
Once the lights start going out and you are not allowed to have your AC going, you can bet there will be a scramble to build new power stations ( as they have literally in a stroke of predictable Genius) blown many of the old ones up. You can bet they will also put a ban on high power demand appliances.... Like charging your electric car.
Won't that put the green goobers in a hissy fit if that happens? Product of their own idiocy!
All this trendy, stylish BS has driven the cost of power through the roof in many parts and rebuilding power stations to ensure a reliable supply is not going to make it any cheaper obviously.
Maybe I should be looking to invest in a couple of containers of Chinese Horizontal Generators and change over switches and get a Veg oil Collection company going to offer cut price Fuel for the things. Buying up all the used Solar panels I can find, getting in a forklift battery pack and a serious inverter may also be smart on a personal level.
Wonder if anyone in China does 24V Fridges or even Kero/ diesel Fueled ones?
ALL of the Greenwashed pacification Schemes we have had here over the last 7-8 years have been unmitigated disasters. There is a substantial Death toll associated with them, they have been that bad not to mention the BILLIONS of dollars pissed up the wall already.
Now it looks like we are headed for a real Doozy of a cockup with our power supply.
These people really have no limits to their stupidity. On another forum I look ( and laugh at) one of the greenwashed Moderators whom won't have a word whispered against renewable energy or any other green feel good today started a thread about a project he is working on.
His bright idea to save the planet and Co2 emissions, yada yada, is to program Crapple phones and Muckbooks to NOT recharge their batteries during peak grid Demand times.
He wants to interface them with the Grid supply authority in Eurpoe where he is and monitor power useage so the things only charge in off peak periods to ease the load of Fossil fueled power stations.
Yeah, can you imagine the load all those Phones, Iplads and laptops put on the grid as a percentage? Must be almost calculable if you go to 19 digits! This is the kind of stupid and idiotic mentality that has got us into all these messes and no doubt a heap more in the future. And can anyone show me any demonstrable improvement this has made to the world as a whole? No, because there has been none, just a lot of feel good crap designed to empty your pockets into the coffers of Big Biz and gubbermints.
When the lights do start going out, I might yet go from a nutter and DIY'er to a Visionary and authority worth hundreds an hour for my Consultation and guidance!
Maybe I better look at buying up this forum and charging a joining fee for all newcomers. 50X rate for anyone who craps on about the environment and saving the planet.
