Renewable Energy Unable To Keep Up With Demand -- Major Power Outages From Michigan To New York -- July 22, 2019

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July 22, 2019: something seems a bit dysfunctional upstate and in NYC. Remember: it was the governor that a) banned fracking; b) banned an expansion of a natural gas pipeline to Brooklyn. From oilprice.com:

Some 30,000 Con Ed customers in New York City were left without power temporarily yesterday as the utility fought a string of outages caused by the heat wave that struck the city this weekend.

“Here’s where we stand: Con Ed is taking 30K customers in Brooklyn, including Carnarsie, Mill Basin and Flatbush, temporarily off power so it can make repairs and prevent a bigger outage,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a tweet on Sunday afternoon.

In a later tweet, De Blasio said Con Ed would begin bringing back customers to the grid at a rate of 500 at a time beginning midnight.

The heat wave hit New York on Friday and although on that day Con Ed said it was confident in the capacity of its equipment to withstand a spike in consumption, events proved otherwise. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo condemned the blackout and threatened to revoke Con Ed’s license. “There is no God-given right that says Con Ed must be the utility company,” Cuomo said as quoted by CBS New York. “They can be replaced.”

"500 at a time." 500 every hour? 500 every day? 500 every week? These guys are good at obfuscation.

Wow, Amazon is lucky they didn't move to Brooklyn. Wow, Brooklyn is lucky Amazon didn't move to NYC.

We're starting to see what happens when the inmates run the insane asylum. 

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Data points (google: major power outages from Michigan to New York); also at Daily Express;

• some of the power outages due to storms; others due to grid simply being unable to meet demand due to air conditioning demand/heat
• power outages reported in multiple states, leaving hundreds of thousands without power
• storms
• heavy storms in Michigan over weekend: 800,0000 homes, businesses without power
• apparently the largest storm in southeast Michigan in "years"
• excessive demand due to heat
• meanwhile in the northeast, the power outages were all liked with heat wave
• NYC mayor Bill de Blasio declares a state of emergency as temperatures surge above triple digits
• 12,000 scattered outages across Brooklyn and Queens
• Con Ed asked customers in certain neighborhoods in southeast Brooklyn to conserve energy while company crews worked to repair equipment problems
• NYC directed office buildings to set thermostats to lower than 78 degrees through Sunday to reduce strain on its electrical grid
• a day earlier, a commemoration of the 1969 moon landing planned for Times Square canceled due to heat

ISONY. 

ISO New England.

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The Word Of The Day

I keep a list of new words that I come across when reading.

Some time ago I came across "casuistry. " I added it to the list of words I share with Arianna.

casuistry: a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending theoretical rules from a particular case; generally pejorative, arguments that destroy morality, efface the essential differences between right and wrong; oversubtle, intellectually dishonest, sophistical

Yesterday while reading James Shapiro's The Year of Lear: Shakespear in 1606, c.  2015, I came across "Jesuitical equivocation." I had never heard that phrase before. A quick google search brought me to this site:

"From 'aequivocatio' to the 'Jesuitical equivocation' : changing concepts of ambiguity in early modern England.

I wouldn't have thought much about the article but there in the abstract, casuistrical:

In my second chapter I examine how the doctrine evolved from its first statement in 1584 by Doctor Navarrus, through the Casuistical tradition to Henry Garnet’s infamous A treatise of equivocation.