Say Goodbye to Electricity on Demand
Your demand for renewable energy will have more ramifications than you know. Lifestyle changes will be required, rather than requested. You'll have no choice but to conserve, at best, and do without at the worst. Electricity simply won't be available when you want it.
No, I'm not making this up
The U.K. announced that the days of electricity on demand are over. Steve Holliday, CEO of England's National Grid, pointed to higher renewables requirements for power reduce electricity availability in the grid. With a requirement for six-fold increases in wind-generated power, there won't be much power when the wind isn't blowing.
Centrally planned power distribution
And the government will decide who gets whatever electricity there is. That's what happens when utilities are government regulated to the degree they are in the U.K., and increasingly so in the U.S.
Don't think for a moment that it's not happening here. Just the other day, my electric meter was replaced with a "smart meter," giving remote monitoring capability on individual household usage. Besides desecrating landscapes with quixotic windmills, the government just got into my home, invading yet another part of my privacy.
Big Brother is coming
Entire areas are being converted to smart grids, allowing government controlled electricity use in the home and diverting it elsewhere at its own discretion. Besides paying more for the little you use, you won't have it when you need it. The decisions you make for how much electricity you use will no longer be yours. Sounds like a communist plot. It does and it's coming.
Limit your liberties with renewables
This is what you get when you opt for renewables. Don't like it? Neither do I. So, save the "green" rhetoric for those who want a return to Neanderthalic lifestyles and public views of your privacy.
And be careful what you ask for, because you'll get it, right along with its unseen consequences.
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Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen
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26 Comments
Post a CommentMakes one sit up and ponder! - siva
This is scary. I had no idea.
Well done.
I would like to say you are paranoid. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you are not.
Great job Lorainne! Smart grid technology is yet again a clever little progressive moniker for "Let's control the Hell out of the moron public."
BO is trying to starve the coal miners, in his pretence of be a green critter. Buying solar panels for person use is a way to go for people that still have the money.
Scary scenario-hopefully it won't come to pass in our lifetimes since the gov. is so slow at everything!
Lorraine, I hope you didn't think I was disagreeing with you. I was in total agreement. I was just saying that renewable technology (such as solar and wind) is useful in limited applications-- not on the grid we're currently using. :)
Commenters can call me and my writing anything they want. But sending the country back to sun and wind for power is de-development, any way you cut it. Technological progress is not the direction this takes us. Standard of living declines. We do less with less because it's required. This is not the America we are.
Well done!