Drill everything NOW !

That bypass is also being built so trucks don’t travel over hoover dam. Though it’d take a nuke, inside the dam, to dislodge it…

Shut down Hoover Dam, look at all the water that it uses to light Nevada and California.

It’s gotten to the point where they had to build a new bridge across the Colorado river in order to allow people to start building houses in Arizona.

Corrupt Harry Reid was at one time the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.

Nahanni on July 7, 2008 at 12:26 PM

I have read that Dick Smother’s character in Casino was based on Harry Reid’s time on the Gaming Commission.

Assume a plant in Canada has extra power, and a consumer in California needs it. Also assume that the power systems in Oregon and Washington have all the power they need.

The way this works (highly simplified) is that the Canadian power company puts it’s excess power onto the Washington grid. The Washington grid now has more power than it needs. So Washington put’s it’s excess power onto the Oregon grid. Now Oregon has more power than it needs, so it puts it’s excess power onto the California grid. The California grid now has the power needed by the consumer who paid the Canadian producer.

As long as the grids are interconnected, electric power is completely fungible.

The reason why consumers in Washington get lower priced electricity, is because local laws require the power companies supply local consumers first. The only electricity they get to sell to the grid, is their excess power.

I think Tampa Bay brought a plant online in the past few years.

Last I heard, while the plant was finished, they were still trying to get it running.

Reid does kind of remind me of the Senator from Nevada in the Godfather.

forest on July 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Corrupt Harry Reid was at one time the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.

Nahanni on July 7, 2008 at 12:26 PM

I have read that the “Senator” character in the film Casino was based on Harry Reid.

Higher CO2 levels may be good for plants: German scientists

I can’t believe they put the word “may” in the headline, as if it was questionable. This is sixth grade science, it just doesn’t get much more basic than this.

Of course, Reid does silly better than anyone else in the Senate, and he does hyperbole even better.

And he will get re-elected over, and over, and over again. So the people in Nevada must not be too sick of him.

Shameless

Liars

I’d chalk this one up to “illustrating absurdity by being absurd”, but in the crazy bizarro world of Washington with Harry “Oil Makes Us Sick” Reid and Nancy of the Pelosi Premium, who knows? It could happen!……

of the war over energy? Are we finally seeing a campaign to call out the Environmental Underpants Gnomes for what they’ve done to us?

First, the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review-Journal blasted Harry Reid for his imbecilic statements of las….

Oh, and about the plants in the hospital? They don’t grow well, not enough CO^2 ya know.

- The Cat

Why does he get re-elected time and time again?

highhopes on July 7, 2008 at 12:31 PM

I don’t know how much Vegas gets but Nevada gets 26% of the power generated, California gets 56% and Arizona gets the rest.

Maxx on July 7, 2008 at 6:29 PM

I think the generator terminal voltage is somewhere around 16kv. I don’t know what it’s stepped up to for transmission but it’d be considerably higher.

One of the reasons they chose Reid after Daschle was that he had just been re-elected so it would be at least six years before there was an inescapable reckoning. But it is pretty obvious what the result will be. The problem is, he’ll have had six years to wage war against America in the meantime.

$%^&*, *&^%$@!, @#$%^&.

As for those boosting transformers you mentioned. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them before. I know our main transformers stepped the generator terminal voltage from 22kv to 500kv and that’s pretty much the last boost that I know of from us to the customer. Neither do I recall ever jacking up current to increase voltage, we always just used the voltage regulator.

Oldnuke on July 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM

Duh… on my part. You are of course correct. The lines that run from Hoover Dam to the city for example are very high voltage, so it’s stepped down, not up. I knew they did something.

Maxx on July 7, 2008 at 3:43 PM

Unless I’m mistaken those transformers you see on poles are step down transformers. They reduce voltage to something you can use in your house. In areas with underground service this transformer will be a box sitting on a pad.

As for those boosting transformers you mentioned. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them before. I know our main transformers stepped the generator terminal voltage from 22kv to 500kv and that’s pretty much the last boost that I know of from us to the customer. Neither do I recall ever jacking up current to increase voltage, we always just used the voltage regulator.

Who the hell would researching nuclear power in this country? The nuclear industry was murdered thirty years ago.

thegreatbeast on July 7, 2008 at 3:50 PM

You might want to check this out before you write nuclear off as dead.

Just for the record that’s not the only one. There are several more in the works.