Temperatures Too Cold to Report???

[wmoebis]

Maybe they should have not shut down coal plants and relied upon windmills and solar panels in the dead of winter
nuclear plants were the answer, but time is running out

I understand there are 2 gas powered plants down 1 for repairs and one for scheduled maintenance, that seems funny they would do that in mid winter. Never heard it has anything to do with wind or solar didn't know we were relying on that.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I understand there are 2 gas powered plants down 1 for repairs and one for scheduled maintenance, that seems funny they would do that in mid winter. Never heard it has anything to do with wind or solar didn't know we were relying on that.

You can't use the words "wind and solar" and "rely" in the same sentence.
If we were to be relying on wind and solar for the past few days, more than 99% of Albertans would be without electricity. Total wind and solar have been as low as 0.06% of Alberta's demand yesterday.

[wmoebis]

You can't use the words "wind and solar" and "rely" in the same sentence.
If we were to be relying on wind and solar for the past few days, more than 99% of Albertans would be without electricity. Total wind and solar have been as low as 0.06% of Alberta's demand yesterday.

Yes I was quoting or questioning Furrowtickler.

[cropgrower]

Daughter in Edmonton got same

[fjlip]

Guys gals figure out how to post BIG pictures....unreadable.

[fjlip]

Sask cooking just fine....still on COAL, NAT gas!

And for all the windmill/solar morons....phucking FREEZE!

[TOM4CWB]

Wow!!! Coldest temperatures on Earth! Manning-73F with wind chill…

[sumdumguy]

Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? Alberta, the energy capital of the continent is rationing power. Wow, who’d of thunk Alberta would be in that predicament? Moe stand firm and fight like hell for those fossil-fuel power plants. These are the whackiest of times.

[furrowtickler]

Will be interesting to see how much carbon tax will be paid in western Canada for the month of January just to keep warm enough to live here .

[TOM4CWB]

Good Morning!
Many Blessings!
Stay Warm!!!

[blackpowder]

I read that the turbines were shut down because they can't withstand these temps.
You can't talk this fact away.
No matter how many current technology systems you build, you still need peak load generation capabilities in all conditions, every day.
So we're paying to build and maintain 2 systems. New math.
Just Not Ready.

Not sure what/how demand will drive better tech under this new order, but mandated demand push appears quite inefficient.

[fjlip]

Sooner or later we will wake up from the Climate Change nightmare...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Climate cultists solution to the intermittent nature of wind and solar is to back feed the grid with EV's. Wouldn't that be handy when your house freezing, you go to leave in what you expect is a fully charged EV only to find it stone dead.

And even with that fatal caveat, discharging the EV's is still only a solution for the first dark windless night. As evidenced by the dismal failure of both wind and solar during this cold spell, there is no reasonable chance to recharge those EV's during the following day when consumptions is even higher than overnight. So for the 2nd and subsequent nights, it is lights out, and you have no means of transportation.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Alberta has enough storage to meet one percent of our consumption. That would last for 14 minutes. Which obviously isn't the purpose, it is to allow enough time for grid operators to enact controlled rolling black outs when they can't meet consumption. Instead of a catastrophic shut down.
This cold weather has me asking another question.
These are tesla batteries. Which need to be kept warm.
So all winter, this is another parasitic drain on the grid. They produce absolutely nothing.
They consume energy.
Just like all the heaters on wind turbines, and using energy to keep them rotating when the wind isn't blowing to save the bearings.
These "solutions" are actually just contributing to the problem, which wouldn't have even been a problem without them.

[TOM4CWB]

Many Blessings!
Hope all is well and it Warms up!!!
God Bless Alberta!!!!