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What's Wrong with Wind and Solar?   The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You

Started 2/22/21 by WALTER784; 108760 views.
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3/23/23

Yep... and this is another one in the making...

EV owners complain about “logistical nightmare” caused by lack of charging stations

Wednesday, March 01, 2023
by: Arsenio Toledo

(Natural News) Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States are finally admitting that it is a total “logistical nightmare” to own these cars due to the stresses that come with looking for charging stations and waiting around for hours to recharge.
 
One EV owner, YouTube personality Steve Hammes, discussed how difficult it was for his family when he leased a Hyundai Kona Electric subcompact sport utility vehicle for his 17-year-old daughter Maddie. (Related: EV NIGHTMARE: Man spends 15 hours to travel 178 miles, proving EVs are unsuitable for long-distance travel.)
 
Hammes believed this was a smart option because the SUV was affordable, practical and allowed Maddie to put more of her savings toward her college fund rather than spending it on fuel. Unfortunately, Hammes ran into a dilemma many residents of Upstate New York are also running into: not being able to find charging stations far away from home.
 
Owners have noted that charging stations, especially in rural areas, are fewer and far between than those located in more urban areas.
 
“We’re going through the planning process of how easily Maddie can get from Albany to [Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania] and where she can charge her car,” said Hammes in an interview with ABC News. “It makes me a little nervous. We want fast chargers that take 30 to 40 minutes – it would not make sense to sit at a Level 2 charger for hours. There isn’t a good software tool that helps EV owners plan their trips.”
 
There are three levels of EV charging. Level 1 can plug into typical household 120-volt outlets and could add between two to four miles of range per hour of charging. Level 2 outlets are typically only found at charging stations and can provide EVs with between 12 to 32 miles of range per hour of charging.
 
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Level 3, or fast charging, is even rarer than Level 2 due to the kind of high-voltage setups required. But these stations can typically add anywhere between 100 to 250 miles of range with just 30 to 45 minutes of charging.
 
Jared Rosenholtz, editor-at-large for CarBuzz, has downloaded at least eight different apps on his phone from different electric vehicle charging companies like EVgo, Electrify America, ChargePoint and Shell Recharge just so he can power up the EVs he is tasked with reviewing. Not only do these apps clutter his phone, they also require an outstanding balance to use, highlighting how difficult it is for EV owners to map out where they can charge.
 
“It’s like having an E-ZPass account,” said Rosenholtz. “If your account balance gets low, the app pulls from your credit card on file and charges another $10. I probably have $8 to $10 in each of these apps, just sitting there.”
 
No improvement in EV infrastructure in past few years
 
John Voelcker, an industry expert on EVs and the former editor of Green Car Reports, noted that he has seen little improvement in the nation’s EV charging infrastructure in the last four years and he repeatedly hears complaints regarding deficient charging outlets.
 
Voelcker pointed out that the federal government’s incentives are geared toward creating more charging stations, not “making sure they actually work,” which can lead to charging outlets in the middle of nowhere not having enough power to provide travelers with enough charge quickly.
 
Tony Quiroga, editor-in-chief of Car and Driver, is very familiar with this predicament. He has become a familiar face in a Mexican restaurant and a coffee shop in Burbank due to how long he spends there while the EVs he tests sit and charge at a station.
 
“I imagine an ecosystem will be built around charging stations eventually,” said Quiroga. “Longer trips bring up flaws in EVs. People are leery of taking them on long trips – that’s why older EVs don’t have 40,000 miles on them.
 
Quiroga further noted that even his own team of reporters has to carefully plan and calculate how far EV charging stations are when they conduct comparison tests among EV manufacturers.
 
“These comparison tests are a logistical nightmare. We plan meals around recharging the vehicles,” he said. “We need to have the battery at 100 percent or
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3/23/23

They ar best for short trips around town, not driving distances.

 
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3/23/23

Well, if they don't maintain the charging stations they have in the inner-city area, or those stations are vandalized, EVs won't do much even for short trips outside of the range you can reach after charging at home... assuming you still have power!

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3/23/23

Solar panels.

 
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3/23/23

Solar panels for personal use... yes, but they will not replace fossil fuel generation even if combined with wind power.

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3/26/23

No they won’t replace it.

 
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4/4/23

UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Generators for First Time as Green Energy Fails to Keep Up

Smoke and steam bellows from the chimneys and cooling towers of Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal fired power station, owned and operated by Uniper at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. The plant emits 810 million tonnes of CO2 annually. It has a generating capacity of 2,116 MW, enough electricity to meet the needs of …Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

PETER CADDLE
9 Mar 2023

The United Kingdom has been forced to use its emergency coal-fired backup generators for the first time as renewables failed to supply enough energy.
 
Britain’s crusade for net zero saw another major failure on Tuesday, with the country having to resort to using its emergency coal-fired power plants as renewables were unable to keep up with demand.
 
The country has been focused on moving away from burning fossil fuels and towards green energy sources in recent years, with the last twelve months in particular seeing the country struggle to keep the lights on at times due to the green agenda of its Conservative Party government.
 
However, with it becoming clear that Britain’s new sources of power cannot keep up with the old, the country has kept some coal-burning power plants — those few it has not short-sightedly demolished — operational and in reserve, ready to start supplying power to the energy grid should the more eco-friendly sources start to fail.
 
According to the BBC, such a last resort had to finally be deployed on Tuesday, with two of the plants providing Britons with energy once again after green energy facilities failed to perform.
 
A total of five separate coal-fired power stations were put on standby yesterday, with two needing to be used in order to keep the energy grid stable.
 
The use of the power plants represents a new low for the Conservative Party’s green energy agenda, a project that has cost everyday Britons a substantial amount of money and the country much of its energy security over the last 12 months.
 
Despite receiving near unanimous support from the senior Tories sitting in government, renewables in Britain have proven unable to take over from fossil fuel-burning methods of energy generation.
 
This has resulted in the United Kingdom having to develop fossil-fuel-based failsafes for the British energy grid, keeping coal power plants on standby in order to ensure a minimum supply of power throughout the country.
 
Even this has, at times, not been enough, with Britain also now having a system of voluntary power rationing in place, where poorer energy customers are paid not to use electricity at certain peak-usage times during the day.
 
Dreamt up in 2022, the rationing system saw its first real deployment in January this year, with some energy customers paid to minimise electricity use between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. in order to help avert a possible collapse of the energy grid.

Green Power Fail: UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Plants for First Time (breitbart.com)

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4/5/23

 

 

Agenda21.doc (un.org)

WALTER784 said...

And if fewer people can drive, fewer people can go to work. 

Better look at the link above, they want everyone using public transportation, because Agenda 21 is all about people living closer to cities in smaller dwellings and returning much of countries back to nature where no one except certain people can visit. I think GHWB got us into this crap with the UN. It's real is alive just like the Climate change stuff at the UN. It's called a conspiracy theory, but it isn't...There is a map showing what the US would look like if this were implemented.

 
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4/5/23

The only problem is that to move everybody out of the country side and into or near larger city dwellings, multiple new condominiums would have to be built. This would allow those to be housed near the city center. However, they also don't have the mass transportation that would be required to move all those people into the bigger cities so they would have to build new subway rail and bus services. Not to mention that these new condominiums along with the subways will all require electricity, and the current power grid just won't support that at this time, so the entire power grid would also have to be replaced. 

All of these require massive amounts of monies and quite a bit of time to build.

Request to build a new condominium/apartment complex. After four years of EPA investigation, they determine that the building they want to build doesn't meet certain new regulations, so another 2 years is consumed to re-design the new condominium/apartment complex to include solar panels on the roof and sides of the building increasing the cost. Finally, after about 10 years or more, the complex gets approved, and construction starts. That's just for the building complex. Then they need approval for the new subway or other rail service, all the new buses must be electric too. Those subways and EV buses need electricity, but current grid just won't support it all, so a new grid has to be implemented. So, they draw plans for a new grid, spend another 8-10 years getting it approved and well... you end up with one totally unsustainable crazy idea after another.

Not to mention that the cost of renting one of those condominiums would probably be $5,000/month or more, so nobody could afford to move into them!

ROFLMAO...

Wala: An impossible wet dream at best... and a nightmare at worst!

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Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns

ALANA MASTRANGELO
13 Mar 2023

Some electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are scrapping the AM radio from their cars, claiming safety concerns. Although conservative talk radio dominates AM radio ratings, it is also considered a critical safety tool, as it is one of the primary ways that federal, state, and local officials communicate with the public during natural disasters and other emergencies.
 
Automakers such as Ford and Tesla have ditched the AM radio from their newer EV models, arguing that the motors on EVs interfere with AM frequencies, creating buzzing and signal fading, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
 
James Farley, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg
 
But former emergency officials are warning that scrapping the AM radio would mean EV drivers could miss important safety alerts.
 
Seven former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrators said in a Sunday letter — obtained by WSJ — to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and several congressional committees that the government should seek assurances that automakers will keep the AM radio in their vehicles.
 
FEMA says that more than 75 radio stations are equipped with backup communications and generators that allow them to continue broadcasting information to the public amid an emergency.
 
“Should this continue, it will represent a grave threat to future local, state, and federal disaster response and relief efforts,” the letter read.
 
The former FEMA officials added that while drivers can use their smartphones to tune into certain radio stations, the signal that allows them to do so aren’t as reliable as AM radio during emergencies.
 
Last fall, Ford said it would be removing AM radio from newer 2023 model year F-150 Lightning electric trucks, citing AM radio frequencies.
 
“The frequencies involved in AM radio tend to be directly affected by the electromagnetic noise in EV propulsion systems,” Ford said.

Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns (breitbart.com)

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