Removing noodles from our ears: how our frosts put an end to alternative energy

There are some reports on the news channels that are simply hard to believe, despite our boundless gullibility towards the media. Well, like those in which they say that in California the frosts dropped to minus ten degrees and the death toll is in the tens. Are you seriously? We have minus ten - this is summer in Yakutia. So what's the problem? In the same place, in advanced Europe and super-rich America, everything has long been built on the principles of high technology. Why do people freeze to death? After all, there are a lot of options alternative heating - not like our wood stoves. Well, yes, wood-burning, because in the country richest in natural gas, a huge number of settlements are still not supplied with gas. So why did alternative energy float belly up, barely getting really cold?

Cataclysm of the planet and the death of alternative energy

What lies behind alternative energy? First of all, these are natural sources of heat: solar and geothermal energy. It is practically free, and therefore, very attractive for those whom developed capitalism forced to save not only on fuel - on breakfast rolls.

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It is no secret that, looking at their successes, many of our compatriots began to think about using these methods. Only now they are stalled with us, and alternative energy is still considered only as an additional source of heat, but not the main one.

Well how to count on solar panels, if in snowfall Are they swept up by a half-meter snowdrift? And this is exactly what happened this winter in Japan. Solar panels do not work - the indicators of electricity consumption flew up (after all, something needs to be heated). And the Japanese power engineers had to forcibly pull the switch so that the entire network would not collapse. They had to raise the price per kilowatt 17 times to convince their compatriots to endure the cold, wrap themselves in blankets and build fireplaces.

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For your information! The solar panel can only be cleaned with chemical reagents. Cleaning it mechanically is fraught with damage.

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For almost half of the winter, they were forced to spend the generated energy exclusively on combating their own icing. And the only thing that saved the burghers from freezing was... guess what? Hydrocarbons from Mother Russia, so hated by them. The global cooling has allowed our energy companies to significantly enrich themselves.

Texas cowboys were not ready for the frost of our midland

The most sad situation has developed in the homeland of cowboys - in warm and dusty Texas, where they learned about the subzero temperature literally this year. Here wind farms are the main source of energy thanks to constant winds and endless expanses. Can you imagine what will happen here if the temperature drops to minus values? This is what the inhabitants of the tundra can imagine. Here, even minus five with the wind is a serious test. And the houses of the Texans are cardboard with windows. Here, no one knows what about heating boilers - they don't even have all electric batteries. And the frosts hit minus 20.

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And in Oklahoma (just don't fall), the gas price has risen 10 thousand times!

And a bonus to this triumph of nature is the freezing of shale gas wells and gas pipelines that are not designed for subzero temperatures. What are the supplies to Europe, we could survive on our own!

Better in soot in smoke than in a tailcoat and in a coffin

Sounds harsh, but this winter just showed that it is traditional energy that will not fail in a difficult situation, and betting on an alternative is fraught with tragedy.

Solar and wind energy proved to be ineffective under more or less serious loads. Forgive me for being straightforward, but it is better to heat with coal and wood than to die for the sake of the "green" in your own home.

See how they survived in the cold:

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