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Gasoline Availability Good Locally
On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:07:59 -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. === In addition to the I2R losses, there is also power lost to electromagnetic radiation. It turns out that those long high voltage lines also make pretty good transmitting antennas. Many new high voltage lines are converting AC to DC at the power source, and then inverting it back to AC at the receiving end. The power conversion electronics has gotten cheap enough to make that worthwhile. https://engineering.stackexchange.co...etter-ac-or-dc https://www.powermag.com/benefits-of...ssion-systems/ https://energycentral.com/c/ec/ac-vs...lectrical-grid That underwater cable I wrote about a while ago going to Crete is going to run DC at high voltage. |
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