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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 04/11/2024
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** Just standard operating procedure for the Ministry of Truth under the "most transparent administration" ever.
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Fox News ([link removed]) (4/11/24) reports: "Biden administration officials successfully pressured fact-checking website Snopes to alter its rating on a fact check it conducted regarding a potential federal ban on gas stoves, according to internal communications. In early January 2023, Snopes issued a 'mixture' rating on the claim that the Biden administration was considering a ban on gas-powered stovetops, citing comments made by a senior official overseeing product regulations. Shortly before the fact check, Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said such a ban was 'on the table.'...But Snopes, which originally gave its 'mixture' rating as a result of Trumka's statements, changed the rating to "false," stating the CPSC is "not currently considering a ban on gas stoves." Snopes' updated article included additional comments from the CPSC and
downplayed Trumka's earlier statement. However, Snopes only altered its article after pressure from the CPSC to do so, according to emails exchanged between CPSC and White House communications officials and obtained by watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI) through an information request..."A commissioner appointed by President Biden wanted to ban gas stoves, and he got caught, provoking a public outcry," said FGI researcher and spokesperson Peter McGinnis. "So, the CPSC staff leaned on Snopes, seeking to counter the narrative by splitting hairs about commission processes. 'And the White House finds this ‘helpful.’ Helpful with what? This goes beyond dysfunction — the government using sympathetic media to censor inconvenient news,' McGinnis said. 'The American people deserve both to keep their gas stoves and to know the truth about what regulations government officials are considering.'"
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** "A reliable grid should be built to have enough reliable capacity to easily handle any one plant going unexpectedly offline. But when your margin of error can literally disappear with the wind, you’re betting against mother nature."
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– PenguinEmpireReports, Substack ([link removed])
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States can have a modern, reliable electric grid, or they can have high levels of mandated renewable energy, but they can't have both.
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(4/10/24) article: "California is relying heavily on offshore wind to take it to the nirvana of a carbon-neutral power grid in 2045. Sacramento believes so intensely in the concept that lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would allow voters to decide in the fall of 2024 if a $1 billion bond should be issued'“to support activities related to the development of offshore wind energy generation.' That’s quite a sum for a project based more on political whimsy than the real world...California’s plans call for offshore wind farms to produce 25% (or 25 gigawatts, enough power for 25 million homes) of electricity by 2045. The state Energy Commission is in full-faith mode, expecting the sea breezes to 'play a major role in helping the state achieve 100 percent clean electricity and carbon neutrality.' Critics have described the 2045 target as a fantasy, crazy, the product of magic thinking, a war on the poor, risky, impractical and a return to the Stone Age. They’re all probably correct.
..Across the country, in another blue state where policymakers are recklessly and myopically trying to jettison fossil fuels, customers are already seeing higher power bills. 'The cost to consumers of two offshore wind projects expected to support New York’s self-imposed climate goals has more than doubled from their original estimates, which were high to begin with,' says the Institute for Energy Research."
If only there was a way to get U.S. gas to the rest of the world.
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Secretary Jenny claims AI and crypto "keep her up at night" but she sleeps like a baby destroying reliable generation capacity and replacing it with part-time wind and solar from China.
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(4/7/24) reports: "Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is losing sleep over energy demand spikes tied to digital technologies like artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. 'That was literally keeping me up last night,' she told the audience at an event Wednesday sponsored by Axios. But Granholm said AI could be instrumental in quickening permit approvals for new energy projects that will provide the energy needed to accommodate new demand. 'We’re developing a pilot [project] for this on public lands,' she said. 'I do think that AI can be helpful in really helping us streamline a lot of this. More on that to come.' Some energy experts say AI, a catchall term for a sweeping set of products that learn data and generate novel content, could help to make electricity distribution much more efficient and cheaper. In December, the Department of Energy said it was using AI and supercomputing to process huge volumes of permitting paperwork. But there are concerns about risks from AI to privacy
and jobs, including potential hacks of software tied to the grid."
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