We had a power failure around midnight or maybe a little later; power was back on when I woke up as it was beginning to become light in the morning. Nothing about it in the news this morning.
I am informed and reasonably believe the power came back on around 3AM. When we first moved in here power failures were rather common (the lines were about 50 years old), but since they rebuilt the lines about 10 or 15 years ago they have become rare.
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The last I heard, five of the biggest (or is that the five biggest?) US coal companies have gone bankrupt. The Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign has been waging a very effective if little known campaign against votes enabling renewal or expansion of existing coal fired power plant licenses. Most of the said power plants are getting on in years, and the owners do not have plans to rebuild them. I read an article a year or so back that a company has developed and tested a new type of power storage device--billets of aluminum encased in graphite. They are heated (nearly?) to melting when there is excess power from renewable sources, using power lines going into a shut-down coal-fired power plant. When power is needed, the hot aluminum is used to generate steam. The whole setup is designed to produce steam in amounts and at temperatures comparable to the old coal-fired boilers. So, remove the furnaces, slot in the aluminum heat storage devices, use the existing boilers, generators, and power lines--and keep the workers employed. Sounds like a great idea.
We had a power failure around midnight or maybe a little later; power was back on when I woke up as it was beginning to become light in the morning. Nothing about it in the news this morning.
ReplyDelete{listener} How long was it off?
DeleteI am informed and reasonably believe the power came back on around 3AM. When we first moved in here power failures were rather common (the lines were about 50 years old), but since they rebuilt the lines about 10 or 15 years ago they have become rare.
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DeleteIt's not an every-day occurrence, but particularly on weekends we see one down there once in a while.
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DeleteThe last I heard, five of the biggest (or is that the five biggest?) US coal companies have gone bankrupt. The Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign has been waging a very effective if little known campaign against votes enabling renewal or expansion of existing coal fired power plant licenses. Most of the said power plants are getting on in years, and the owners do not have plans to rebuild them. I read an article a year or so back that a company has developed and tested a new type of power storage device--billets of aluminum encased in graphite. They are heated (nearly?) to melting when there is excess power from renewable sources, using power lines going into a shut-down coal-fired power plant. When power is needed, the hot aluminum is used to generate steam. The whole setup is designed to produce steam in amounts and at temperatures comparable to the old coal-fired boilers. So, remove the furnaces, slot in the aluminum heat storage devices, use the existing boilers, generators, and power lines--and keep the workers employed. Sounds like a great idea.
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