News Analysis: Potentially mis-guided efforts have been made by governmental agencies, using computer modeling, as well as influenced by political rhetoric, to make myopic choices regarding Environmental Protection. Since fashionable Environmental Protection Rules will not mean much to people perishing from cold exposures due to a reduced American electrical power grid, perhaps Court Injunctions are in order to protect the Public Welfare.
With the American Power Grid losing capacity due to energy source shutdowns, from Draconian Decrees by government environmental agencies, human discomfort, personal economics, and physical safety will be jeopardized, many scientists think.
The efficacy of the Coal Industry’s ability to provide quick energy sourcing, should not be discounted.
It will mean very little to those experiencing cold discomfort of “Polar Vortexes” that there are some particulates in the air near some Coal Fueled power facilities. Coal as well as Oil are both proven for their “24/7/365” Energy Production Capacities. Once these facilities are shut down, it would take years to reactivate them, if possible.
To those “Greens” who tout ‘Geothermal Energy’, ‘Solar Energy’, ‘Wave Energy’, ‘Wind Energy’, etc. the facts remain that these systems are: Costly/Energy Value Delivered or Localized (far from Cities) or of Reduced Efficiency, or Transitory (Day/Night).
The American Power Grid losing generation capacity does not bode well for its citizens. Long after the politicians who voted for spurious regulations have left office, and the ‘substitute energy systems’ aforementioned have been proven to be of minimal energy impact, Americans will continue shivering in the cold. Legacies of inept former politicians who made poor energy choices (in the name of a ‘Clean Environment’) will remain with them and may help warm them up from the internal anger generated by such poor decisions of such people.
Reality.
Reference: http://tinyurl.com/luttv59