Haha.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
How much natural gas does Consumers Energy have for its customers in west Michigan?
Consumers has 15 storage fields with 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, [Consumers Vice President Garrick] Rochow said.
"There's not only a large supply to meet our customers' needs for the entire winter, but there's the ability to pull even more gas into state through the pipeline system," Rochow said. "So there is no risk from a long-term reserve perspective."
The utility has 1.8 million business and residential natural gas customers.
Here's the math (I think):
350 billion cubic feet of natural gas = 350 trillion btu (1 billion cf = 1 trillion btu);
I use roughly 156 million natural gas btu per year, on average, in my single family household (approximately 150,000 cf X 1.037 million btu per 1000 cf.);
If all Consumers' customers were like me, which they aren't, Consumers Energy could supply 2.24 million such households for one year before needing to resupply the storage fields, or 59% of Michigan's households.
Michigan has roughly 3.8 million households X 2.55 people per household = 9.7 million. Estimated population in 2017 was just under 10 million.
Supplying electricity is a completely separate issue.
Michigan residents asked to keep thermostats no higher than 65F through Friday evening during cold snap
A Wednesday night plea for customers to turn their heat down made an impact, [Consumers Energy spokesman Brian] Wheeler said.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to Facebook to ask Michiganders to reduce usage and an emergency alert was sent to cellphones.
Residents should keep thermostats down through the end of the day Friday, officials said, to avoid the possibility of service interruptions.
I went out in the subzero temperatures to grocery shop yesterday, and it was chilly in the store: Now I know why
The natural gas company had a fire at a compressor station and basically had to burn off an entire natural gas storage field yesterday in a controlled manner in order to prevent an explosion. It was their main field supplying us here in Michigan for the winter. Now they'll have to tap reserves.
They're asking everyone to reduce thermostats to 65F to conserve gas in the meantime.
It's -11F this morning.
Now ain't that a kick in the head.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The utility companies in Minnesota wouldn't have to say this if natural gas were reserved for residential heating and coal for electricity
“We need those in Becker, Big Lake, Chisago City, Lindstrom,
Princeton, and Isanti to reduce use of natural gas. Until further
notice, you are urged to turn down your thermostat to 60 degrees or
lower and avoid the use of other natural gas appliances including hot
water,” Xcel Energy said. WCCO’s Reg Chapman said shortly before noon Wednesday that Xcel Energy is asking customers to lower thermostat to 55 degrees. Xcel Energy says residents’ cooperation is critical to prevent
widespread natural gas outages. The company also suggests using electric
space heaters.
Increasing amounts of natural gas are fueling electricity generation in the state. In 2016, about one-seventh of the natural gas consumed in Minnesota went to the electric power sector, more than double the amount of natural gas used for electricity generation in 2011.
Obama beat Romney but never got the House back, best case scenario now for Trump
No, until Hillary Clinton the GOP had no path.
Six more years of gridlock is the future, at best.
And to think, he coulda been a contenda.
Trump never got that separation of powers thingy, didn't realize even a Republican legislative is his enemy
Separate! Separate! Dance to the music . . .
Here's what's wrong with Chicago: 1,745 people there are trying to save feral cats from the cold
Memo to you lunatics: God sends cold weather like this to cleanse the earth of vermin. Don't get in His way. You are not doing His work. You are mentally ill. Shelter in place and seek medical attention as soon as it's safe to go outside.
Climate reality check: It's only -3.8F on my electronic weather station this morning in Grand Rapids
The record low for this date was -22F, January 30, 1951. That record was matched as recently as January 19, 1994.
The coldest reading ever in Grand Rapids was -24F, a twofer on February 13-14, 1899.
Meanwhile, Chicago's coldest temperature EVER was as recently as 1985, at -27F. It's -20F there at this hour, which will put this in the top ten lowest lows ever in Chicago.
It could be a lot worse, and has been in my lifetime.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
True believers are piling on Cernovich in defense of Christianity much like defenders of socialism pile on its critics
The true believer dies hard because ideology, whether it's religious or not, is the opiate of the people, blinding it to the reality staring it in the face.
And the reality of Islam is that it exalts servility to a religious principle.
George Washington, dear friends, would not take the Lord's Supper, nor kneel in church. The father of our country, first in the hearts of his countrymen for many reasons, including those.
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