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Mr. Luddite wrote:
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 SÃ¶ze 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
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