It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with New York killing off reliable, dependable, affordable energy sources and replacing them with unreliable and expensive energy sources which are dependent on the sun shining and the wind blowing, right? Replacing energy sources which can take weather and can be repaired quickly, can take over loads, with energy that can be knocked offline easily, is hard to fix, and is hurt by weather events, righ?
New York cities plagued by blackouts due to climate change, study finds
Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found.
Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science.
The risk to the grid is rising as more frequent extreme weather knocks down power lines, damages transformers and threatens the stability of the grid, said first author Nina Flores, a doctoral student at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Researchers found that several neighborhoods in Queens had more than 100 outages over the three-year period: 147 in Jamaica, 138 in Flushing and 104 in Richmond Hills.
Other cities had dozens of outages: 48 in Lewisboro, near the Connecticut state line; 42 in Flower Hill, on Long Island; 38 in Boston, south of Buffalo. Small towns in counties like Nassau, Hamilton and Westchester had 20-30 outages.
So, mostly urban areas which already have transmission issues and are now more and more reliant on solar and wind.
Flooding and extreme levels of rain, hail or snow were the primary causes of outages, researchers found.
The scientists also noted that these outages are more than an inconvenience. If they coincide with heat waves or cold snaps, these outages can harm or kill residents — and at all times, they endanger the lives of people dependent on elevators or electric medical devices.
Would you be surprised that a high percentage of these outages are from winter weather? Who would have thought that snow and ice, along with the associated clouds, would cause problems with solar and wind? Don’t forget that wind turbines are meant to operate with wind speeds of 5mph to 30mph. More can damage the turbines. Snow and ice can likewise affect performance. Solar cannot gather light when it is cloudy, when rain is hitting them, or covered in snow or ice.
And it’s not a barely rising sea or storms which are not getting more extreme and more often, it’s having more power usage in those areas.
If “William” Teach had bothered to read the actual study report he might “understand” the effects of extreme weather events on the “grid”.
Whiners gotta whine.
William “Teach” lets fly at his “preordained” target – renewable energy – while the study “itself” looked at the electrical grid. Heat waves increase “electrical” consumption leading to grid breakdowns “and” failures. Tropical storms destroy power lines, transformers and flood power plants. Thunderstorms blow trees onto exposed power lines. Every time a line of sever storms passes through Missouri, power outages for hours and sometimes days, occur.
If there was just some way to “harden” our electrical grid against wind, floods, heat waves and blizzards?
Omigod! Who knew???
Omigod! It’s like it’s never occurred before!!!
Omigod! Jeez, if we could only control the weather!!!
Thanks Karen(aka Rimjob).
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Piss Ant
Ouch, Karen (aka Rimjob) that really, really hurts.
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Then perhaps hardening the electrical grid should be where the concentration of effort should be rather than changing the global weather which is currently impossible.
Well, yes! As I’ve stated many times, we’ll be required to adjust to global warming. Small towns along the Mississippi here are building flood walls and utilities would be wise to bury lines where feasible. Burying power lines costs a few million per mile. We’ll adjust but it’s not cheap.
Our local electric company can (and do!) trim your trees that threaten power lines.
Reducing atmospheric CO2 is a long term endeavor.
Chicken Little Man
Using targeted maximum likelihood estimation, we found
Say what???
likelihood estimation
adjective: such as well might happen or be true; probable.
Let me clarify.
Maybe it will or maybe it won’t.
estimation: a judgment of the worth or character of someone or something.
Chicken Little Man
If there was just some way to “harden” our electrical grid against wind, floods, heat waves and blizzards?
Really??? Are you that stupid?
Well, we could bury local transmission cables. We could build more dams for flood control and electrify generation. We could stop building windmills that kill birds, fail in cold weather and must be replaced in around 20 years. We could offer serious tax rebates for serous home insulation and reduced pricing on LED’s. And we could go nuclear in a big way.
All pretty simple, eh?
Ol’ Man,
Really??? Are you that stupid?
Electricity, cable television, and land-line telephones are our most vulnerable to the weather utilities, and always have been, because they are delivered via lines on telephone poles. They can be taken down by heavy, wet snow loads, ice storms, vehicles hitting and knocking down poles, all sorts of things. Most of us have abandoned land-lines for their telephone service now, so that’s less of a problem.
That has to be a consideration as Our Betters want to push, or even force, us into all-electric heat, water heating, and cooking in our homes. They are attempting to put even more demands on electricity generation and the delivery grid, and that means more people will suffer potentially life-threatening situations when the sparktricity fails.
I’ve told you guys before how we were out of power for 4½ days, in our then all-electric home, but that was in March of 2018, and the weather wasn’t that cold. In the upper 20s at night, into the upper 30s and even mid 40s during the day. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize that things could have been very different if it had been a severe winter storm, with roads blocked and daily highs in the teens and nights around zero. Yet that’s exactly what the liberal northeast wants to force.
Around here, almost all power outages result from spring and summer storms with tree limbs bringing down power lines. The rare but devastating ice storms in winter do the same thing. Obviously, underground power lines are less vulnerable.
“Extreme weather events on the grid..”
Except there’s no more extreme weather events than before. Let’s “fix” the problem of these alleged weather events by relying more and more on a solution that…relies more on the weather!
Do you really DENY that extreme weather events knock out electric power??
Where do you live?
Right over your head, hey Karen (aka Rimjob)?
Can’t recognize actual sarcasm if it hit you over the head.
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So “Mr” Teach is either intentionally or inadvertently incorrect in blaming renewable solar and/or wind energy for power outages in New York.
Except he didn’t Karen (aka Rimjob), you queefed that up on your own.
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I said no more extreme weather than before. That’s true.
jl,
Even if there is no INCREASE in events, isn’t it bad enough now to require fixing??
“…isn’t it bad enough now?”
What she say?
Huh?
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