amicus
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When I write of Darkness Descending on America, it is not just a metaphor concerning the devolution from liberty into statist socialism and slavery. It is the literal ‘going dark’ as the result of nearly a half century of effort by such anti American groups as the Sierra Club, a mixture of militant environmental Nazi’s and Ecology freaks, that have hampered efforts to supply electricity to the American public.
Uttering such syrupy bromides as, ‘save the planet’, ‘pristine wilderness’, incestuous groups who hate mankind, progress, expansion and want the population to decline, the anti industrial pastoral socialists, have slowed the growth of American enterprise and electric generation to a point where a crisis looms in the next few years.
It is not just the number of electric generating plants that the aged hippies have stopped building, it is the continual harassment and intimidation in the courts and through legislation, the threat from DC to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build a coal fired plant, all combine to offer a dim future for Americans everywhere.
It is unthinkable to most that one fine day the lights would go off and not come back on.
There is approximately a three day supply of food in the markets without replenishment. With no electricity, nothing moves.
Do the research, do the math. Plants are retired due to age; no new electric generating plants are being built. The population and the demand for electricity continue to grow and the supply is stagnant or decreasing.
What will you do when the lights go out?
“Total electric power generated in the US
Steady rise from 1949, smallest increase 1973- 1974 1.864.1 1,870.3
First year to year decrease in power generated, in billion kilowatts
2000 3.802.1
2001 3.767.6
2007 4.156.7
2008 4.119.4
2009 3.950.3
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.cfm#generation
"NERC’s assessment shows there are 4 areas of vulnerability. First, reserve margins, the capacity above what is required to meet normal peak demand, can be severely affected due to either the retirement of plants that do not meet the standards or the de-rating of capacity for plants that add environmental equipment in order to meet the standard. NERC regional planners would like reserve margins to be at 10 to 20 percent of peak demand to meet surges in power demand caused by weather, outages, or other unexpected occurrences.
"Second, while plants are offline to install environmental equipment required to meet the new EPA guidelines, electricity generation will be lowered. Third, retrofitting the units to meet the standards in the short time frame mandated (2012-2015) will require coordination of plant outages among the industry, requiring a massive effort since it typically takes about 18 months to add environmental equipment to a coal-fired unit.
"Finally, because there are a limited number of companies that design and install scrubbers, the time for retrofitting may increase beyond the typical 18-month period, which could cause additional generation to be off-line and further lower reserve margins.
"All told, NERC estimates that as many as 677 coal-fired units (258 gigawatts) will need to be temporarily shut down to install EPA-mandated equipment, which constitutes an impact on over 70 percent of our total coal-fired capacity.”
Other Estimates
"There are good reasons to believe that EPA’s regulations will force more generating units off line. According to the Edison Electric Institute, for example, about 48 gigawatts of coal units at 231 plants will be retired between 2010 and 2022. That capacity represents 14 percent of the 339 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity in 2010, or about 5 percent of total generating capacity.[ii]
Recently, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) compiled a list of all of the generating units that will be closed according to EPA’s model and utilities’ disclosures because of the transport rule (CSAPR and CATR) and the utility MACT rule. IER found that almost 30 gigawatts of electric generating capacity will be taken offline due to these two rules alone. That amount is about double the number originally predicted by the EPA and represents nearly 10 percent of total coal generating capacity in the U.S.
"To put it in perspective: this is the equivalent of closing every power plant in the state of North Carolina or Indiana...”
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Not just a possibility, a certainty and inevitable. Thanks to progressives, liberals and democrats everywhere…
Amicus
Uttering such syrupy bromides as, ‘save the planet’, ‘pristine wilderness’, incestuous groups who hate mankind, progress, expansion and want the population to decline, the anti industrial pastoral socialists, have slowed the growth of American enterprise and electric generation to a point where a crisis looms in the next few years.
It is not just the number of electric generating plants that the aged hippies have stopped building, it is the continual harassment and intimidation in the courts and through legislation, the threat from DC to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build a coal fired plant, all combine to offer a dim future for Americans everywhere.
It is unthinkable to most that one fine day the lights would go off and not come back on.
There is approximately a three day supply of food in the markets without replenishment. With no electricity, nothing moves.
Do the research, do the math. Plants are retired due to age; no new electric generating plants are being built. The population and the demand for electricity continue to grow and the supply is stagnant or decreasing.
What will you do when the lights go out?
“Total electric power generated in the US
Steady rise from 1949, smallest increase 1973- 1974 1.864.1 1,870.3
First year to year decrease in power generated, in billion kilowatts
2000 3.802.1
2001 3.767.6
2007 4.156.7
2008 4.119.4
2009 3.950.3
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.cfm#generation
"NERC’s assessment shows there are 4 areas of vulnerability. First, reserve margins, the capacity above what is required to meet normal peak demand, can be severely affected due to either the retirement of plants that do not meet the standards or the de-rating of capacity for plants that add environmental equipment in order to meet the standard. NERC regional planners would like reserve margins to be at 10 to 20 percent of peak demand to meet surges in power demand caused by weather, outages, or other unexpected occurrences.
"Second, while plants are offline to install environmental equipment required to meet the new EPA guidelines, electricity generation will be lowered. Third, retrofitting the units to meet the standards in the short time frame mandated (2012-2015) will require coordination of plant outages among the industry, requiring a massive effort since it typically takes about 18 months to add environmental equipment to a coal-fired unit.
"Finally, because there are a limited number of companies that design and install scrubbers, the time for retrofitting may increase beyond the typical 18-month period, which could cause additional generation to be off-line and further lower reserve margins.
"All told, NERC estimates that as many as 677 coal-fired units (258 gigawatts) will need to be temporarily shut down to install EPA-mandated equipment, which constitutes an impact on over 70 percent of our total coal-fired capacity.”
Other Estimates
"There are good reasons to believe that EPA’s regulations will force more generating units off line. According to the Edison Electric Institute, for example, about 48 gigawatts of coal units at 231 plants will be retired between 2010 and 2022. That capacity represents 14 percent of the 339 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity in 2010, or about 5 percent of total generating capacity.[ii]
Recently, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) compiled a list of all of the generating units that will be closed according to EPA’s model and utilities’ disclosures because of the transport rule (CSAPR and CATR) and the utility MACT rule. IER found that almost 30 gigawatts of electric generating capacity will be taken offline due to these two rules alone. That amount is about double the number originally predicted by the EPA and represents nearly 10 percent of total coal generating capacity in the U.S.
"To put it in perspective: this is the equivalent of closing every power plant in the state of North Carolina or Indiana...”
***
Not just a possibility, a certainty and inevitable. Thanks to progressives, liberals and democrats everywhere…
Amicus
