The Energy Thread

[falafel]

people still have gas powered cars?

You still had Comcast until a few years ago.

[Uncle Ted]

people still have gas powered cars?

Yeah, it sucks for all the little people that have to drive a gas powered car...

What is the hell is wrong with these people? Just go buy a Tesla, man.

[old_gregg]

people still have gas powered cars?

[Katy Lied]

I wonder if the gas shortage would constitute grounds for me to keep working from home.

[Uncle Ted]

The Columbia pipeline incident is interesting. There is enough gas in storage to satisfy needs through the weekend, supposedly, but panic buying is happening so gas stations are running out. It’s like the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.


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Only through the weekend!?! Oh crap its worse than I thought... I need to go fill up my gas tank:

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[Uncle Ted]

The cyber-attack is Biden's fault?

How dare he?

The Harris Administration should have created a new branch of the military to stop this stuff... CyberForce!

[beefytee]

Good thing Trump was focused on the current threats and not pie in the sky stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The cyber-attack is Biden's fault?

How dare he?

[Moliere]

The Columbia pipeline incident is interesting. There is enough gas in storage to satisfy needs through the weekend, supposedly, but panic buying is happening so gas stations are running out. It’s like the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.


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[Uncle Ted]

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Solarwinds and now this. Maybe the Harris Administration will finally take cyber security seriously... ah, the smell of money.

[Katy Lied]

What about those companies who are purchasing shuttered power plants and spinning up the old coal fired, polluting generators. Nope, they are not retailing or distributing power-- they are using all of it on Bitcoin mining. Does the government only count the plants that provide energy to the public when they are calculating climate goal KPIs?

[Uncle Ted]

Yes, good ole nuke power is back on the table... The Harris Administration is finally getting real:

White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets -sources

The White House has signaled privately to lawmakers and stakeholders in recent weeks that it supports taxpayer subsidies to keep existing nuclear facilities from closing, bending to the reality that it needs these plants to meet U.S. climate goals, three sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
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The United States has more than 90 nuclear reactors, the most in the world, and the business is the country's top source of emissions-free power generation.

But these aging plants have been closing, some as recently as last month, due to rising security costs and competition from plentiful natural gas, wind and solar power, which are rapidly becoming less pricey. Losing more nuclear plants could make Biden's zero-emissions goal challenging, if not impossible, analysts have said.

"There's a deepening understanding within the administration that it needs nuclear to meet its zero-emission goals," said a source engaged in the talks and familiar with the White House thinking.

The White House had no comment.
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https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/white-house-eyes-subsidies-for-nuclear-plants-to-help-meet-climate-targets-sources-2021-05

Time to spin up Yucca mountain! We can convince Nevada it's a good idea by shutting off their water.

[wuapinmon]

I don't like sweating inside either, but 68 in summer is pretty low.

We keep it at 74 summer, maybe 72 for the upstairs AC every once in a while when I'm feeling too hot at night and can't sleep. Of course humidity is low, to say the least, in Utah. 68 winter.

My kids in winter, "I'm cold." Me, "Go take the dog for a walk; it'll feel nice when you come back inside. Of course, it was 78F here today---in February--so who knows what cold is like anymore.

We also make use of our whole-house fan (attic fan in the South), quite a lot. It'll push all the air out of the house in about a minute, and make the curtains hang sideways in front of a window if there's only one open.

[BigFatMeanie]

http://energy.sc.gov/node/3069
Per the Dept. of Energy, I pay an average of 12.34/KwH to my provider Duke Energy Progress. I keep my house at 68F in summer and 64F in winter. 2600 sq ft, brick ranch, with maximum efficiency windows and more the recommended amount of insulation in the attic, ridge vent, and not completely black shingles (I wanted white/reflective, but my wife said, "uhh, no!"). 3/4 the house is on a gas/electric furnace/AC, the other fourth is heatpump for both. We have gas logs in the office where my wife works, right in the middle of the house. They get used a lot.

We spend around $250/month keeping the house at 68F. In the winter months, our bill is well below average because we have a gas furnace (uncommon here because most people can't connect to a gas grid and have to have propane tanks).

I have too many trees to make solar viable here, and I'm down in a draw, so the wind up the hill coming across the coastal plains wouldn't be enough to generate power.

Our powerbill in New Orleans, to keep that 1921 house at 68F, with no f-ing insulation, was $450.

I only like to sweat inside for one reason.

I don't like sweating inside either, but 68 in summer is pretty low.

We keep it at 74 summer, maybe 72 for the upstairs AC every once in a while when I'm feeling too hot at night and can't sleep. Of course humidity is low, to say the least, in Utah. 68 winter.

[wuapinmon]

http://energy.sc.gov/node/3069

Per the Dept. of Energy, I pay an average of 12.34/KwH to my provider Duke Energy Progress. I keep my house at 68F in summer and 64F in winter. 2600 sq ft, brick ranch, with maximum efficiency windows and more the recommended amount of insulation in the attic, ridge vent, and not completely black shingles (I wanted white/reflective, but my wife said, "uhh, no!"). 3/4 the house is on a gas/electric furnace/AC, the other fourth is heatpump for both. We have gas logs in the office where my wife works, right in the middle of the house. They get used a lot.

We spend around $250/month keeping the house at 68F. In the winter months, our bill is well below average because we have a gas furnace (uncommon here because most people can't connect to a gas grid and have to have propane tanks).

I have too many trees to make solar viable here, and I'm down in a draw, so the wind up the hill coming across the coastal plains wouldn't be enough to generate power.

Our powerbill in New Orleans, to keep that 1921 house at 68F, with no f-ing insulation, was $450.

I only like to sweat inside for one reason.