America desperately needs electrical generation stations.
More new stations and updates for the older ones.
Throughout New York City, about 52,000 of ConEd’s 3.2 million customers lost power during the heat wave. Triple-digit temperatures forced residents like 77 year-old Rui Zhi Chen, to seek shelter at one of the city’s 400 emergency cooling centers. “It felt like an oven in my home and on the street,” Chen said.
Should Americans view these kinds of scenarios as extraordinary circumstances — or a warning sign of a darker future?
Experts on the nation’s electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers.
During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124 percent — up from 41 blackouts between 1991 and 1995, to 92 between 2001 and 2005, according to research at the University of Minnesota.
In the most recently analyzed data available, utilities reported 36 such outages in 2006 alone.
“It’s hard to imagine how anyone could believe that — in the United States — we should learn to cope with blackouts,” said University of Minnesota Professor Massoud Amin, a leading expert on the U.S. electricity grid.
More than 30 years later (after the 1977 New York City blackout), the United States is still “operating the most advanced economy in the world with 1960s and 70s technology,” said Amin. Failing to modernize the grid, he said, will threaten the U.S. position as an economic super power.
And yet, not only do the Religious Left want no more electrical generation stations to be built, they also want you to turn off your air conditioner despite the fact that, during heat waves, the elderly and the young perish.
Air conditioning uses too much energy.
Yet we can’t have coal because it’s too foul; we can’t have nuclear because it’s too dangerous; we can’t have wind power because it kills birds; we can’t have solar because it chews up acreage and requires too much water to clean.
If that isn’t sufficiently arcane and ridiculous, the Religious Left and the Demorats demand that you shoehorn into electric cars which — wait for it, wait for it — run on electricity. Imagine that!
The Religious Left are absolutely insane, and they don’t care who they kill, inconvenience, bully or lie to in order to enable their unrealistic and unsustainable agenda.
BZ
