ATHENS: Covid-19 vaccinations and most public transport were brought to a grinding halt as Athens found itself in the middle of heavy snowfall. Pictured: Snow covers the Acropolis on Tuesday
* Polar vortex, ultra-cold air that usually hangs above North Pole, has descended on the northern hemisphere
* From Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, subzero temperatures and snowfall have stunned ill-prepared citizens
* Meteorologists say this polar vortex is one of the largest and most brutal they have seen since the 1950s
* White-outs at the Hagia Sophia and Acropolis this week are part of a weather pattern which started in January
* 'The Beast from the East' froze the River Thames in London for the first time in decades before moving south
All across the northern hemisphere from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, snowfalls have blanketed streets and temperatures have plunged to freezing in places where winter usually requires no more than a jacket.
Snow has covered nearly three quarters of the United States, to an average depth of six inches, compared to 35.5 per cent last year with an average depth of 4.6 inches.
In Moscow cars have been submerged under snowdrifts in the biggest dump to hit the Russian capital since 1973, while comparatively warmer cities like Madrid, Istanbul and Rome, have also been covered in white.
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WNU Editor: It has been a colder winter this year (I live in Montreal). There has also been a lot of snow (but no record).
Am I worried?
No.
This is why we call it "the weather".
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Federal regulators warned Texas that its power plants couldn’t be counted on to reliably churn out electricity in bitterly cold conditions a decade ago, when the last deep freeze plunged 4 million people into the dark.
They recommended that utilities use more insulation, heat pipes and take other steps to winterize plants -- strategies commonly observed in cooler climates but not in normally balmy Texas.
“Where did those recommendations go, and how were they implemented?” said Jeff Dennis, managing director of Advanced Energy Economy, an association of clean energy businesses. “Those are going to be some pretty key questions.”
As investigators probe the current power crisis in Texas, which has left millions of people without power or a promise of when it will be restored, questions are sure to be raised about how the state responded to the urgings from the 2011 analysis, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North America Electric Reliability Corporation, which sets reliability standards.
The February 2011 incident occurred when an Arctic cold front descended on the Southwest, sending temperatures below freezing for four days in a row. The result was disastrous. Equipment and instruments froze, forcing the shutdown of power plants and rolling blackouts, according to the report.
John Brady, the communications director at PBOT, says if they only plowed streets they could fit, there would be an equity issue.”
Nature is bad.
Liberals make things much. much worse.
No mention yet of a Russian created weather bomb, though I'm sure its coming.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle
Once again, the Frosty asshole shows he does not know what an engineering tradeoff is or why they are necessary.
Is possible that Frosty could solve a problem with 3 constraints or would she just sit there with her thumb up her ass?
The gas and coal plants are there in part as backups for the windmills which failed. There would not be as many coal or gas plants failing except they are kept as backups to wind. Kept as backups they are not used 24/7 and therefore not as profitable or not profitable period. That puts a crimp on spending covering every contingency.
There was a pile of money sitting around. There was enough to cover extremely hot weather and extremely cold weather. It being Texas they covered the former and took a gamble on the latter. They can't cover both as the the state limits what fees they can charge. That little thing ... that is known as a constraint. I would expect Frosty Ass to understand a constraint and how it affects designed and operation. Details are burdensome to remember and Frosty Ass could not be bothered to remember them. It is why Frosty is non-STEM.
If they had spent that money on winterizing instead of hot weather improvements there would be failures ever 1 to 3 years instead every 7 to 10 years. Again understanding periodicity goes over Frosty's head, because you know numbers.
They could have prepared for both if they could have raised prices, but there is that pesky utility board.
Do you think Frosty has ever experienced air conditioning failing, because there was no where to dump the heat?
The utilities were not utilitizing this type of Gen set which is linked below, but it shows that generators have a problem with heat as well as cold.
"In order for generator sets to function as intended in hot climates, users must assess the ambient capability of the model prior to acquisition. The ambient capability, or ambient clearance of a generator set, is defined as the maximum ambient temperature in which the cooling system can operate effectively without causing the generator set to shutdown due to high engine temperature."
https://www.cat.com/en_US/by-industry/electric-power/Articles/White-papers/ambient-capability-of-enclosed-generator-sets.html
You can design for both heat and cold, but it can cost you a pretty penny. I do not think that Frosty, a no load loser, has every operated a generator. I have. Nothing the size of one used by an electricals utility, but larger than what a serious prepper might use.
Maybe Frosty should stick to something she/he might be good at, the game of Tiddlywinks.
As Germans freeze, leading newspaper calls green energy strategy ‘a dangerous miscalculation’
‘Die Welt’ Commentary: “Europe Can’t Bail Out The German Power Supply”
…Calls Strategy “A Dangerous Miscalculation”
Germany has seriously overestimated how much its neighboring countries are able to help out in the event wind and solar energy fail to deliver, thus putting its power supply at risk.
By P. Gosselin on 11 September 2018
The Day Europe’s Power Grid Came Close to a Massive Blackout -Bloomberg
"Less coal and more wind makes it harder to balance network"
People like Frosty Snowjob don't care about balancing grids ... cuz numbers
Number are hard for them.
Let's be honest
Frosty is not that smart, when it comes down to it.
"Spinning turbines of thermal plants connected to the grid create kinetic energy called inertia which helps keep the network at the right frequency. This spinning can’t be created by wind turbines or solar panels and policy makers need to find ways to incentivize other forms of energy storage or flexible output.
Germany is the biggest producer of green electricity in Europe. The nation is culling a quarter of coal and nuclear capacity next year, a gap it will need to plug. Instead of building a huge fleet of batteries, Germany plans to rely more on more its neighbors, importing power along huge cables."
- Bloomberg
Herr Merkel will crash the system this time next year of there is another cold snap like Europe and North America experienced.
Count on it.
I miss the good old days of global warming. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were all going to perish along with the polar bears.
Where's Greta when we need her?
I keep hoping Greta will be a lunch meal for a bear. Bear probably figures it's not worth the drama
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