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82-T/A [At Work]
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OCT 06, 08:43 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
Curious about the case of the original owner going to prison for 2-years for filling a wetland. |
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Yeah, I was wondering about that too... I'd have to guess maybe there was more to that.
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WonderBoy
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OCT 06, 11:48 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
rinselberg quotes rinselberg... to post a correction. Germany has three of the Siemens eHighway installations with overhead electrical lines for a total of just over 6 miles, altogether, of electrified highway. The longest of the three stretches for just over 3 miles.
"Germany Now Has Three eHighways Where Trucks Are Being Powered By Power Lines Above"
Obafemee80 (screen name) for AutoJosh; November 8, 2021.
https://autojosh.com/german...y-power-lines-above/ |
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So, I wasted my time watching that video. Why did I waste my time? I was hoping that the video would explain where the electricity powering those overhead power lines come from. Not mentioned.
Wind FARMS?
Solar panel FIELDS?
Unicorn FARTS?
Am I missing something?
This is more load on the grids is it not?
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Wichita
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OCT 06, 11:53 AM
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Follow the science politics.
 [This message has been edited by Wichita (edited 10-06-2022).]
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rinselberg
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OCT 06, 08:45 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by WonderBoy:
So, I wasted my time watching that video. Why did I waste my time? I was hoping that the video would explain where the electricity powering those overhead power lines come from. Not mentioned. Wind FARMS? Solar panel FIELDS? Unicorn FARTS? Am I missing something? This is more load on the grids, is it not? |
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The electricity has to come from somewhere.
This forum thread was started in reference to California, but these Siemens eHighway setups cannot be installed anywhere on the planet without looking at the requirements that would be imposed upon the "grid".
The Biden administration has been pushing for new offshore wind energy projects. There's at least one that's being visualized for California. There has also been reporting on a plan for a new wind energy project in Wyoming that would include the long distance grid connectivity to bring some of that power to California. I've posted in this forum recently about both.
I like the aesthetics of this overhead electrification technology, but I am not here to say that it's a "no brainer" that California should have this. Maybe not. Maybe there is more upside to the opposed piston diesel engine technology that I posted previously in this thread:
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/...HTML/000377.html#p23
What I've been trying to do is to bring this thread around to the idea that there is more to CARB (California Air Resources Board) than "woke", which is a reference to how this thread was started.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 10-06-2022).]
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Hudini
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OCT 07, 09:06 AM
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You cannot destroy the oil and gas industry without a viable alternative. So CARB is woke with their nonsense. Your gov better come up with a plan to charge all those vehicle batteries and soon. It takes years to build the required infrastructure.
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rinselberg
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OCT 10, 10:11 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Hudini:
You cannot destroy the oil and gas industry without a viable alternative. So CARB is woke with their nonsense. Your gov [sic] better come up with a plan to charge all those vehicle batteries and soon. It takes years to build the required infrastructure. |
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Part of the plan is developing more offshore wind energy for the West Coast, including California.
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines concept; YouTube video (2 minutes).
"Floating Offshore Wind Shot", Wind Energy Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
https://www.energy.gov/eere...g-offshore-wind-shot
"FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Expand U.S. Offshore Wind Energy"
White House press release; September 15, 2022.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/...ffshore-wind-energy/
| quote | | DOI [U.S. Department of the Interior] also announced a new goal to deploy 15 GW of installed floating offshore wind capacity by 2035—enough clean energy to power over five million American homes. This builds on the Administration’s goal to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind [floating and seabed anchored, combined] by 2030. DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will advance lease areas in deep waters for floating technology, starting with a lease auction off the coast of California by the end of 2022. Achieving this ambitious target will spur billions of dollars of economic opportunities and avoid an estimated 26 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually. |
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| quote | | West Coast Ports Analysis: DOE announced a nearly $1 million project funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce key infrastructure challenges by outlining a network of West Coast ports and upgrades needed to deploy commercial-scale floating offshore wind. |
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| quote | | West Coast Transmission Analysis: DOE announced an analysis to review existing transmission studies and identify research gaps related to offshore wind integration in California, Oregon, and Washington. This work will help inform future analysis efforts that will aid in transmission planning and buildout. |
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[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 10-10-2022).]
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Hudini
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OCT 11, 10:08 AM
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Sounds great. Until the wind is calm.
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rinselberg
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OCT 11, 11:32 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Hudini:
Sounds great. Until the wind is calm. |
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Offshore winds are more reliable. The farther offshore, the better on that score. That's why the interest in wind turbines that float. It makes it more feasible to install wind turbines farther offshore and in deeper waters.
Wind, and offshore wind, is only part of the "game".
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olejoedad
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OCT 11, 01:07 PM
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So you admit that Green Energy is gaming the population?
Whodathunkit? 🤔
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rinselberg
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OCT 12, 08:54 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
So you admit that Green Energy is gaming the population? Whodathunkit? 🤔 |
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Not at all, When I ended my previous remark with the word "game", I set it off with quotation marks to indicate that it is a figurative or metaphorical reference, not a literal reference.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 10-12-2022).]
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