HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 26 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: What runs the electric grid since all the green peeps are anti nuclear Not oil Coal (yuck), natural gas, nuclear are the big 3 Plenty of wind and solar potential out there so, plus a sprinkling of other techs (olive pits, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 41 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: What runs the electric grid since all the green peeps are anti nuclear I wasn’t referring to the electric grid but ok bud since you asked. Less than 2% is from oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 27 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Not oil Coal (yuck), natural gas, nuclear are the big 3 Plenty of wind and solar potential out there so, plus a sprinkling of other techs (olive pits, etc) Where does gas come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 30 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Not oil Coal (yuck), natural gas, nuclear are the big 3 Plenty of wind and solar potential out there so, plus a sprinkling of other techs (olive pits, etc) Intermittancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 15 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Where does gas come from? Great article explaining it. Why Is New England Paying The Equivalent Of $180 Oil For Natural Gas? The gas that lands in Boston has historically been sourced from fields in Trinidad & Tobago, Norway, and Russia. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2022/02/01/why-is-new-england-paying-the-equivalent-of-180-oil-for-natural-gas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said: I wasn’t referring to the electric grid but ok bud since you asked. Less than 2% is from oil. Without looking, I think the proportion is higher in New England, especially in Maine. Switching from fossil fuels has the obvious catch -22, encouraging heat pumps and EVs while shutting down fossil-fueled generating facilities. The solutions are apt to be lengthy and expensive at first, though prices should become more reasonable as green power is a bigger share of the grid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 35 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Not oil Coal (yuck), natural gas, nuclear are the big 3 Plenty of wind and solar potential out there so, plus a sprinkling of other techs (olive pits, etc) You can track the real time fuels and prices at ISO New Englands website. https://www.iso-ne.com/ Oil is still used on extremely cold days and hot high demand days in the summer. There are oil fired peaker power plants that sit idle most of the year and will turn on when the price of wholesale electricity goes sky high. During a cold snap I did the math and the New Haven oil plant was getting like 20x the normal wholesale power rate. The plant was making a few million in one day at those rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said: What runs the electric grid since all the green peeps are anti nuclear Maybe some nuclear so long as Putin’s goons don’t shoot at it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 42 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: What runs the electric grid since all the green peeps are anti nuclear I think we definitely have to re-think nuclear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Not on my 2022 Bingo card but can't wait to see @weatherwizreaction when one parachutes on him. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/03/09/giant-joro-spiders-east-coast-may Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said: Not on my 2022 Bingo card but can't wait to see @weatherwizreaction when one parachutes on him. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/03/09/giant-joro-spiders-east-coast-may I am barricading myself inside. I don't know why they have to come during the middle of severe weather season. How am I supposed to chase with spiders falling out of the sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Where does gas come from? Taco Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Intermittancy Storage has been a big issue. That is getting better... all of the technologies are getting better but some of that is still sourced outside the US which blows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QCD17 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Hydrogen fusion. Still a ways off, but I'd like to think that my great grandkids will be enjoying energy from that process. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 3 hours ago, tamarack said: I'd recommend doing this carefully, with a sunset provision perhaps tied to prices drop below a set threshold. Roads/bridge are bad enough now and an extended spell of drying up their finances won't help. Also, the sunset provision would eliminate the need to vote for a tax hike, with its political fallout. Totally different subject: Came thru my ablation process quite well yesterday. The Electrophysiologist (a discipline I'd never heard of before last October) spent 25 minutes treating over 130 separate rogue impulse sites in pulmonary veins during the 4-hours it took for anesthesia/insertion of tools into femoral veins and up to-through the heart/ablation/removal and cleanup, followed by 3-4 hours on my back in recovery and then another 2 hours stopping the skin-layer capillary bleeds. In Hospital at 6:15 AM, out at 6:30 PM, totally professional job all around. My throat is scratchy thanks to the tube and my chest is sore - things were done inside there - especially if I take a deep breath. A week of no lifting more than 10 lb and other sensible cautions. Get well Tom! We old NNJ weenies stay united! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 14 minutes ago, weathafella said: Get well Tom! We old NNJ weenies stay united! Thanks - the 75+ crowd is pretty slim. My early birthday present. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 Heating oil down 23% Torch Tiger getting the word out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Heating oil down 23% Torch Tiger getting the word out? of course i got my delivery yesterday, 83 gallons $5.29 per 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 19 minutes ago, SJonesWX said: of course i got my delivery yesterday, 83 gallons $5.29 per Wow! We pre-bought our oil last summer... $2.79 per gallon (I think?) We might wind up using more than we bought though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Random question, early 1980s people in NY and NE put on snow tires in November or December and took them off in March or April, you could tell who hadn't put on warm weather tires because the tires were louder. In 40 years, have they invented all season tires? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 More good stuff in Allagash. Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaStorm05 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 I don’t know exactly what they are going to do, but the idea of regulating cryptocurrency seems like a good idea at this point. I think it has ventured into scammy and scandalous waters and one which wears a suit and tie. The concept seems convincing enough but the thing about it is, who is using it to buy everyday stuff? Nobody? All it has been is this thing that thrashes about left and right while people put in and pull out erratically. People lose and gain left and right going in and out of the pot. You just have so many of them popping up, each with a cutie celebrity face promoting them, some of which have silly names even. I am not qualified to take direct jabs at any specific one but I can rightfully say it sketches me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Heating oil down 23% Torch Tiger getting the word out?Why down? Did u mean up?Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 12 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: Why down? Did u mean up? Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Nope. When I checked, the futures for heating oil were down 23% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 Currently down 22% https://oilprice.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 It’s absolutely maddening that when crude rises, prices at the pump rise the same day… when it drops like today, no movement. Guess they are only in a hurry to raise prices, not drop them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 5 hours ago, Lava Rock said: More good stuff in Allagash. Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk That place does Winter really well. I feel so far south sometimes and then realize we are compared to up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 10 hours ago, tamarack said: Thanks - the 75+ crowd is pretty slim. My early birthday present. It’s past midnight so happy 76th! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 3 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: It’s absolutely maddening that when crude rises, prices at the pump rise the same day… when it drops like today, no movement. Guess they are only in a hurry to raise prices, not drop them Theoretically it’s when they get their delivery but when prices are rising they don’t wait it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 16 hours ago, Lava Rock said: More good stuff in Allagash. Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Lots of memories in that first pic. My first Maine deer, a mini-basket 8-pointer, was dragged (uphill 1/2 mile) to the Hafey Road in 1976. it was the stockiest, short-bodied critter I've taken, weighed 175 after hanging a week. Brought several other to that road before finding the real honey-hole in the Big Brook country. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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