INTERCONNECTION BLOGGER FOR CLIMATE DUBIOUS

We need an interconnection blogger to sell climate change to the disbelievers.

The scientists aren’t getting it done.

Celebrities are trying but coming up short.

Where is that blogger to tie it all together?

In my reading I found this:

The U.S. Department of Energy reported that almost 40% of all planet-warming pollution comes from the burning of dirty energy to create the energy we use.

Brett White, vice president of Pine Gate Renewables, told CNBC, “Even with all of the work, with all this great stuff that’s in the IRA and all of the wind that is in the sails of decarbonization in the renewable industry, if you can’t address transmission and infrastructure, then those goals aren’t going to be met.”

What does this mean?

It means we need an interconnection blogger for the hard work of hooking up clean power.

I’m not the guy, but how hard can it be?

Interconnection Blogger Request

We need a blogger who sees things as they are and asks, “Why?”

That same blogger who reads the same things the rest of us read and asks, “Why not,” when something makes sense to them.

For example, how can clean solar and wind energy connect to the power grid most efficiently?

That’s the big California question.

One answer comes from the midwest:

So, why would a solar farm, for example, want to be placed at the site of a non-operational coal plant?

It turns out that because these plants are already wired to the power grid — meaning that they’re already connected to the network of substations, transformers, wires, sensors, and poles that carry electricity from power plants to be distributed to our homes — installing new power plants at the site of old ones saves energy companies a lot of money and time.

The idea to transition these sites has taken hold in a number of states, with Illinois leading the pack. In the Prairie State alone, there are currently nine plants that will become solar farms or battery storage facilities, the New York Times reports.

And more coastal states like New Jersey and Massachusetts are opting to repurpose their coal plants for new wind farms.

Did anyone in California read that?

Cali is a coastal state if anyone east of the Mississippi has noticed.

North Dakota Transmission Line

The biggest problem the interconnection blogger faces is the reluctance to change.

Good people living their best lives want things to continue as always.

If they work in a coal fired electric plant with the main transmission line in the state, they might lose their jobs to clean energy.

How bad can that be? Look at the west coast fishing and logging industries.

The west coast learns from the midwest, the midwest learns from Oregon.

Human concerns lead the way on renewable energy; they also lead the way on climate change.

And this is the hurdle to clear.

An interconnection blogger will see both sides to the story.

People need jobs to sustain a good life, but what happens when the work is detrimental to the environment?

Both of my grandfathers worked in the woods.

One of them said, “We knew what we were doing logging hillsides and ruining streams but that was the job. Cut trees and move to the next stand.”

He said it with sadness because he was a true woodsman and knew the importance of environmental connectivity.

The master tree faller even taught his skills in the local community college. His company hired the top graduates and the trees continued to fall.

This was a man who experienced logging from the misery whip to the chain saw.

He knew both sides of the story by heart.

North Dakota could learn from my grandpa.

Selling Climate Change To Dubious Buyers

During Covid the public stage was occupied by scientists and politicians.

The most prominent among them was the shit talker in chief giving medical advice while people dropped across the country.

But they didn’t drop on stage. They didn’t drop on-camera.

And this was the unfortunate selling point when it comes to Trump.

Unlike other old people who caught Covid and died with a ventilator slid down their neck, Trump was whisked off and treated quickly.

He returned to the White House for his Mussolini Moment where he stood on a balcony and whipped off his mask to the cheering throngs who knew that their superman had conquered death all by himself.

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If someone is not suffering from a dire warning, will they change their behavior?

On the other hand, if someone is suffering from a dire condition they’d read about, will they change?

Too many stories came out about people denying Covid with their dying breath. One is too many?

How can the same people be convinced that climate change is real if their house hasn’t been swept away by rising seas? If their crops haven’t died on the vine from excessive heat?

There is an odd comparison from the medical world that I suggest climate change deniers pay attention to.

From this:

Lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity.

To this:

Lung cancer has become a formidable disease, killing about 1.5 million people per year globally.

Watching a chain smoking family member succumb to lung cancer might convince friends and family to quit smoking.

Climate change is different?

We all get to watch the curtain come down?

Or do we listen to science and find a better energy solution to fossil fuel, including energy storage and transmission on existing infrastructure.

Is that too much to ask?

Are you asking?