tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post3141212964951483432..comments2024-03-28T00:27:14.676-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Late 70's there was a song called "Freeze a Yankee":Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-66784359057923897492014-08-01T15:46:58.586-07:002014-08-01T15:46:58.586-07:00Bad wording on my part, should have put it as Wind...Bad wording on my part, should have put it as Windy did: I doubt enough line capacity to move the amounts needed to there.<br /><br />That would be interesting, wouldn't it? "I don't care what's happening somewhere else, we're freezing HERE! Run a cable to that sub fast!"Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-68326618651804019042014-08-01T11:24:35.045-07:002014-08-01T11:24:35.045-07:00I wonder how long before they start screaming to h...I wonder how long before they start screaming to have a few of the subs in Groton plugged into the grid...Cormachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978254921072505008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-15727307950670380252014-07-29T11:51:57.116-07:002014-07-29T11:51:57.116-07:00There is a way to push power around on the grid to...There is a way to push power around on the grid to meet demand, I think it's called "wheeling". It was in the news some 10 years ago in California when people got busted for manipulating the cost of energy in the Enron scandal, and Governor Gray Davis got recalled and we got the other actor as governator. <br />I think it would be limited in some way by capacity of the high voltage wires used to move the electricity around the country.Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-63714096085210409532014-07-28T06:17:45.584-07:002014-07-28T06:17:45.584-07:00Like you, don't know enough to say. I doubt t...Like you, don't know enough to say. I doubt there's any way to move power from central US to there, though.<br /><br />Though the politicians and greenies up there would damn sure demand it: "This is NYC/Boston/Whatever, we're more important than those peasants out west!"Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-38494283703027916182014-07-28T05:07:00.551-07:002014-07-28T05:07:00.551-07:00Not that I know a lot about the national grid but ...Not that I know a lot about the national grid but I wonder what will happen here when they come up so short that the lights go out up there.Titan Mk6Bnoreply@blogger.com