Electrostate vs. Petrostate: Smart electrical grids of tomorrow!
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3057661]Obviously, you cannot walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. I said the war will not have anything to do with the long term price of energy nor will it have anything to do with what is used to generate elctricity in the future.[/QUOTE][NOPARSE]Ya gotta love the boldface lies, backpedaling and revisionism from MAGA and Repubs, especially those most perpetrated and promoted by their Fuhrer himself.[/NOPARSE]
[LIST]So you're still gonna lie and claim you to fail to see the MAGA Fuhrer/Israel - Iran War, has "anything to do with energy"? after saying those exact words: [i][b]"Then there is this trash about Trump and Israel that [u]I fail to see has anything to do with energy.[/u]", [/b][/i] here: [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=3055749&viewfull=1#post3055749[/url][/LIST]
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3057661]To wit, By far the most important measure of a grid is its reliability, and a grid that is "only" 99% reliable would be catastrophic for a developed economy. In the US, grid operators aim to meet what's known as the "1-in-10 year" standard, defined as no more than 24 hours of outages over a 10-year period or 99.97% reliability.
To achieve that standard, supply and demand must be precisely balanced too much electricity can be just as problematic as too little...[/QUOTE]Instead posting reams of of "cut-and-paste" passages from the article, to make it look like your words, [U]just provide the link to the article,[/U] so I can read it for myself. Unlike MDS1, at least you took out the [I]"ADVERTISEMENT" labels...LOL![/I].
As far as grid reliability goes, if gas is more reliable than coal and nuclear is more reliable than gas, why has there only been 2 nuclear power plants built in the United States, this century, and in the last 30 years?
Wattsbar in Tennessee and Vogal Units 3 & 4 in Georgia. Vogal took 15 years to construct and cost $37 billion dollars, [B]more than twice the projected timeline and costs[/B] and is the single most expensive power plant in the USA [URL]https://www.oregonpsr.org/plant_vogtle_the_true_cost_of_nuclear_power_in_the_u_s [/URL].
What you constantly fail to realize, is that the electrical grids of tomorrow, not only will need to be "reliable", they also need to be, cleaner, greener, resilient, flexible, adaptable and smart.
What you also again, fail to realize, is that the electrical grids of tomorrow, will need the smart flexibility to handle, much of the clean, green renewable economy with electrotech, such as: rooftop-solar, EV's, battery storage tech, VPPs, heat pumps, heat batteries, pumped hydro, wave energy tech, UHVDC, HVDC & HVAC interconnectors, V2 G, V2 H, V2 be, V2 X, H2 G, B2 G and X2 G. Etc.
This is what "reliability" will look like, in the electrical grids of tomorrow!
Iran just take a page out of the Trump / MAGA grifting playbook?
I take [NOPARSE]no pleasure from the senseless death on both sides of the US/Israel-Iran war, that the MAGA Fuhrer and Bonkers Bibi started. But that said, U GOTTA LUV, the latest turn of events for Iran, to turn the war into a money making grift, by charging ships, US$1 million to move through the Straits ---fuckin' genius and freakin' hilarious!
Talk about out smarting, out maneuvering and taking a page out of the Trump/MAGA grift playbook, by essentially taxing and putting a "toll" or "tariff", on the ships going through the Strait of Hormuz...LOL[/NOPARSE]!
[B]P.S.: [/B] As part of reparations, some pundits speculate, Iran my just decide to keep the ongoing [B]"Trump like tariffs",[/B] but increase the tolls in the Strait, after the war. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
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Trump's method for negotiating everything.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;3058412]Trump lost economics war, just making chaos in economics, making losing more jobs. A really really bad guy for our world, but criminal Netanyahou follower. What are now USA, after beach resort in Gaza. Shameful.[/QUOTE]It was known long before Trump ran for office the first time that his method for negotiation goes something like this:
He enters a banquet where everything is running along pretty well but can be improved upon with a few smart tweaks here and there.
He gets his fat ass up on the top of the main buffet table, drops his pants and takes a huge steaming wet dump right into the main entre bowl.
At that point and compared to what he just did anything else that happens looks reasonable.
But it will not be Trump to clean up the colossal mess he made.
Somebody else will rush in, do whatever is necessary to clean up the colossal mess he made or try to and the measures that must be taken will surely require stirring his shit around and dealing with it in ways nobody would have needed to do had he not climbed to the top of that buffet table and taken that huge steaming wet dump on anything.
He will still try to get back up on that table to do it again the whole time somebody else is trying to clean up the mess. Only the most eager Trump shit-eaters will allow him back up in that table.
In the end, no matter how effectively Trump's colossal mess has been cleaned up by somebody else it will not be put back as well and easily improvable as it was before he took his huge steaming wet dump on it.
However, he will still take credit for the clean up and tout it as "the greatest achievement in history, Sir", quoting an imaginary friend he always calls upon whenever he feels particularly lonely and unappreciated.
Dems again flip Repub ruby red seats!
[B]Democrats Secure Stunning Victories in Florida Special Elections, [/B] March 25th, 2026. [URL]https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-secure-stunning-victories-in-florida-special-elections-11731500[/URL] In these unprecedented election times and major victory wins for the Dems, as they again defy double digit Repub ruby red led districts in the 2024 election, and flip two legislative seats in the Florida state congress.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;3058335]Also very funny, democrats defeated Trump at home, when rich place. Maybe his end in November. Our world would be happy to be gotten rid of master of bullshits, so boring guy when Iran resist to him.[/QUOTE]Yes, very funny indeed! I had a good laugh, as the Dems flipped his the seat in his home district of Mar-a-lago. LOL! Worst president in USA History! November will be real interesting and stay tuned for the "NO KINGS" March this weekend.
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Putting the lie to what pundits have been insisting.
[QUOTE=Spidy;3058450][B]Democrats Secure Stunning Victories in Florida Special Elections, [/B] March 25th, 2026. [URL]https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-secure-stunning-victories-in-florida-special-elections-11731500[/URL] In these unprecedented election times and major victory wins for the Dems, as they again defy double digit Repub ruby red led districts in the 2024 election, and flip two legislative seats in the Florida state congress.
Yes, very funny indeed! I had a good laugh, as the Dems flipped his the seat in his home district of Mar-a-lago. LOL! Worst president in USA History! November will be real interesting and stay tuned for the "NO KINGS" March this weekend.[/QUOTE]These dozens of previously strong Red seats being flipped to Blue and in a big way vs zero Blue seats being flipped Red virtually from the moment Trump squeaked out that razor-thin election win in November 2024, even before he enacted his failed tariffs and trade war with everyone, even before prices began to increase because of it, even before they substantially increased the rate of inflation, even before his economic policies virtually killed positive private-sector jobs creation in America, even before he began bombing and invading several countries trying to start unproked wars around the world and on and on is further evidence that the Repub Trump / Dem Harris election campaign issues so adamantly insisted upon by pundits and are still insisted upon by them as "the reason Trump won" brought the contest to a draw, at most.
Contrary to the pundit spin, the American electorate was not really choosing one or the other on the issues of The Economy, Inflation, Immigration, Crime, Wokeism or any other such thing.
That is why it was and has been so easy for voters to totally abandon the supposedly "winning side" of those issues and from Day One. At best it was a coin flip for Trump on those issues two Novembers ago. Close enough for the coin to flip up Dem ever since.
Nope. As I said almost from the week after the 2024 election; a relatively tiny handful of one typically Dem-voting demographic swinging juuuust enough, by less than a single percentage point among them, from the Dem to the Repub on one passionate issue for them in the only 3 swing states that mattered was the sole reason Trump squeaked out a razor-thin win for a 2nd term that he had been campaigning for and not doing anything else particularly challenging for a know nothing, do nothing lazy slob Repub like him since 12 Noon on January 20,2017.
Counting the players on the field back in November 2024, that's why and how it happened. No other reason.
Counting the millions of Biden 2020 voters who were so satisfied with how their personal finances and feeling of security and safety were in November 2024 that they were simply not angry or dissatisfied enough about anything to bother voting and / or had allowed themselves to be bamboozled by pro Repub pretend Bothsiders / Neithersiders into actually believing it doesn't matter all that much, good or bad, which Party is in the White House because "stuff just happens", those voters were awakened to the horrible penalty for falling for such BS soon thereafter and more so with every passing hour.
Even Mainstream Media pundits' tireless efforts to terrify big Dem campaign donors into abandoning the Party by convincing them, falsely, that Joe Biden was cognitively impaired and that Kamala Harris was a "weak" candidate and should engage in a late hour primary battle over the nomination only she could seamlessly accept has been shown to be utterly immaterial since several credible polls are now showing far more approval for them as president then and now over Trump.
Oh well.
We tried.
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