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The Coming Dark Age
« on: March 07, 2011, 08:09:59 PM »
Don’t count on constant electricity under renewable energy, says UK electricity CEO

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Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country’s grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won’t be available when the wind doesn’t blow, “The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that.

“We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”

Holliday has for several years been predicting that blackouts could become a feature of power systems that replace reliable coal plants with wind turbines in order to meet greenhouse gas targets. Wind-based power systems are necessary to meet the government’s targets, he has explained, but they will require lifestyle changes.

Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential purposes.

Smart grids are being developed by utilities worldwide to allow the government to control electricity use in the home, down to the individual appliance. Smart grids would monitor the consumption of each appliance and be capable of turning them off if the power is needed elsewhere.

Holliday’s startling comments on BBC Radio 4 were reported by The Daily Telegraph.

The world of Atlas Shrugged is emerging right before our eyes.



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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 08:56:23 PM »
The US is quickly moving down this road too.  Blackouts and radical Islam.  What a great combination. ::fail::

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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 09:07:23 PM »
I was just thinking that islam and darkness do go together.

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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 09:07:51 PM »
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Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable

They're saying straight out that we peasants had better get used to a Third World existence.

It goes without saying that the ruling class will not be subject to such restrictions.  They'll still enjoy their mansions, limousines, private jets, and Wagyu beef whenever they want.  Just like Third World dictators.
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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 09:11:46 PM »
I was just thinking that islam and darkness do go together.

Islam, hell.  This is flat-out communism.
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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 09:23:05 PM »
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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK..."
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"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 09:38:02 PM »
"Highest SOCIAL PURPOSE"???!!  They bring that here, and they will, and they'll be getting a lesson on "social purpose".

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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 09:49:30 PM »
I'm getting tired of people's willingness to put up with bullsh*t. It's a profound sort of dysphoria to know that no matter how angered and "up in arms" you feel about these outrages, there's 1,000 other citizens who will just do whatever they're told.
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Re: The Coming Dark Age
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 06:37:40 AM »
Morons!

We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.