On 5/15/2021 4:01 PM, Bill wrote:

On Sat, 15 May 2021 08:28:30 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:


"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:r

On 5/14/2021 8:12 PM, wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2021 11:35:07 -0700 (PDT), " wrote: On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 2:21:17 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2021 07:08:29 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 5/13/2021 11:50 PM, wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2021 10:51:07 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Three of the four gas stations in our area had product to sell and no lines. The big volume dealer -WaWa- was sold out and awaiting a tank truck delivery later today. We had spot shortages here and we don't even get our gas from that pipe. Nobody in the peninsula does. It was just panic buying AKA a media driven emergency. Now that everyone has every gas can and tupperware bowl full of gas, supplies are recovering. I still got gas yesterday at my regular station no line no problem regular

price. Cracks me up though. Responding to the alternative methods to deliver fuel, Biden's Energy Secretary stated that the pipelines are the better way to transport it even though her boss axed the Keystone pipeline. Then she thumbed her typical liberal nose at the public by saying that if people used electric vehicles, they wouldn't be experiencing these fuel shortages. She also happens to own stock in an electric bus manufacturer that Biden visited to promote. The value of her stock holdings are potentially worth $ millions and she has not divested her holdings even though there's a conflict of interest issue. But what really cracks me up is none of these electric vehicle advocates ever mention where the energy comes from to charge up their electric vehicle batteries. The vast bulk of it is generated by fossil fuel plants. Plus, whenever energy is transformed from one state to another there are
losses involved. Laws of physics prevail. There are also the I2R losses in the transmission lines. A while ago one of my inspector trade rags had a story "How hot are those conductors?" talking about how hot some transmission lines run and how that affects line sag but the fact remains that is waste heat going into the air. It is hard to get the utilities to say how much power is wasted in transmission and the crazy bookkeeping they use on the grid makes those numbers hard to actually believe when you see them but it is a pretty big number if your power is coming from very far away. I2R still wins in the end. I'm sure you know that's the reason the transmission lines are run at such a high voltage. It minimizes he losses, but there are still some. The company I used to work for put in some equipment for a regional power company some years ago. They told me about an incident where, in the middle of the summer in a coastal SC area, a
transmission line that was hot and sagging separated at a badly crimped barrel "butt" splice. No one was there to see it, but when it separated it produced a fireball that, when it hit the ground, blew a big enough hole to drive a truck down into and hide it. They said there were clumps of fused sand laying around. That would have been cool to see, just not too close up. Watts is watts (is 3.4BTU) , if you have 300 miles of transmission line that is running at 40-50c above ambient air, you are wasting a lot of watts. When you consider transmission lines typically carry two or 3 triplexes that starts looking more like 1800-2700 miles of wire to go 300 miles. You don't usually see a lot of snow around transformer farms either. They do twist the triplexes to minimize parasitic losses but they are still there or you wouldn't be hearing all the concerns about poweThe line radiation. I have tried several times to find out what the difference is between power
generated and power actually billed to a customer but those numbers are hard to come by, even by people I know, close to the business. As I said, the screwy grid bookkeeping makes it hard to get a real answer. I'll pay attention to my next electricity bill. I know it iscomposed of two major charges, one for generation and the otherfor delivery.I think the delivery component is higher than the generation.-- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.https://www.avg.com

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