http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2023/10/02/welcome-to-clown-world-youll-never-guess-what-is-keeping-a-coal-power-plant-open-n2388012
The demands by the left that we 'fundamentally transform' our society (do those words sound familiar?) into a carbon-neutral economy steps on a lot of rakes. There is Biden's EPA chief, Joseph Goffman, who doesn't know how much electricity the United States needs each year, the politicians who don't realize that charging EVs requires about 90% of traditional grid electricity, and, of course, everyone's favorite giggling vice president, who famously can't even figure out how to charge an EV.
But maybe the biggest rake of all so far came recently from Kansas, where a coal-fired power plant that was slated for closure will now remain open because ... it is needed to supply power to a brand new, $4 billion Panasonic EV battery factory just outside of Kansas City.
Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) ~ The Self-Licking Ice-Cream cone in living color: $4b electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas uses so much energy it requires its own coal plant. 🤡
http://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-26-panasonic-ev-factory-kansas-power-coal-plant.html
The amount of energy the new Panasonic EV battery facility needs is so high, in fact, that a representative from Evergy, the public utility serving the factory, testified before the Kansas City Corporation Commission that there are serious 'near-term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective.'
Put another way, the Panasonic EV battery factory in De Soto is an energy hog of epic proportions. As such, Evergy says it will have to continue burning coal at a nearby power plant in Lawrence that was previously slated to eventually transition to natural gas production.
If you are laughing right now, that is the appropriate response.
Cecilia Glennon (@CeciliaGlennon) ~ The jokes write themselves these days.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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