Japan Asks Millions to Save Electricity As Record Heatwave Strains Power Sources

Climate change is causing temperatures  around the world to rise.  But yet Supreme Court striped EPA power to enforce rules.  Trump determination to kill the planet still their in Supreme Court.  They must be stopped.  So sick and tired of what GOP has become.

That is government not doing its job.. How about this..

In Japan they realize that marraige is between a man and women.  

Japan does "not" allow ANY immigration.

You all are criminals - wide open borders, support Antifa & BLM, won't look for the Supreme court leaker

Kill the energy sector

Vote amazing benefits for yourselve's 

All this will reverse - we will kick every illegal out of the country, Drop the EPA; IRS and National School board. 

Help all those denouncing the country to leave and never come back and audit you all to hell and back. Take away your amazing benefits for those who do make it through trials for crimes against humanity. 

Have a great day

We are known for high temperatures but it's been surprisingly cool this year. On the fourth it looked like rain. Today it's only 89 degrees. Strange. I don't like strange weather!

These immediate and temporary stop-gap measures will do little to address the root cause of the problem-GLOBAL  WARMNING.  Until all of us (citizens and governments) take serious action to decrease the destruction of our planet all of us will need to employ more and more temporary pseudo "fixes" that will in the end be ineffective.  But, hell no, even the SC (Supreme Court) is willing to uphold the destructive ways of the fossil fuel industry.  For the fucking Republicans that say they are concerned about the sanctify of life, they sure don't seem to give a damn about preserving our planet for future generations of those "precious" children (not do they seem to get a rat's ass about those precious children once they are born).

I would say that I'm one of the lucky ones since I live 5,280 ft. above sea level plus It is not a heavily populated community.  The air may be thinner but air circulation is much greater and temperatures are a great deal lower than on the "flat lands".  I still conserve on electricy since my apartment is total electric.  At this moment, I am the only one home which allows me to only have a window fan bringing in fresh air, my computer is on, the light above the kitchen sink is LED, and the only thing running is the refrigerator.  There is a drawback to this situation which is that the window in my bedroom and the sliding glass door to my "deck" are on the west side of the building.  There is a parking lot in that area to the west for residents so there is no blockage from the sun and inside temperatures can climb quickly when the sun starts to beat in those windows.  I am not allowed to hang curtain rods with curtains over the window and doorway.  The doorway does have virticle blinds which do not keep out the heat as does the window in the bedroom.  I did finally brreakdown and buy a "tension rod" for the window and have folded an old sheet to fit the area needed to block the heat from the sun.  I turn on the air conditioner at 4 PM when it gets too hot indoors so it will be cool when I prepare supper.  As soon as the sun drops behind the hills, the air conditioner is turned off, doors and windows are opened to allow for fresh air circulation.  Needless to say , my electric bill has dropped $10 nto $20 a month compared to previous years.  I feel that I am, at the very least, doing my part to limit the electric company's profit margin and help the environment as well.  One other advantage that I have is the fact that the heat coming in from the west continues throughout the winter months so I don't have to turn on any heat at all.  To warm up the place during the cold spells, I just simply do some baking.  Between that and the heat coming in through the door and window, the only time the heaters are turned on, the outside temperatures have to reach 7-5 degrees F or lower for more than two days.  I feel I've been blessed in that way.

I am beating the heat by keeping the air vents and doors closed on rooms that I do not need to go in, so I only use the A/C in 3 rooms of my house.  Those 3 rooms have ceiling fans so I can keep the thermostat set at 85 and still feel cool.  Also I do not open the doors to go outside until after the sun has gone down.  I do not use the oven in the summer.  I mainly eat salads and other meals that require little or no cooking.  I have been doing these things since I retired 10 years ago.  Since I have such a low income from teaching Missouri's children for 38 years, I must do this.  

The heat is bad but humidity worse.  Staying home and slightlyhigheer A/C temps

Yeah, how about that. And, our government wants us to kill to the golden fossil fuel goose before its time, and go all electric and face what Japan is suffering and what Texas faced during the winter storm last year when they nearly froze to death, and become victimized by a hostile Russia, and drive up our transportation costs, and drive up our electricity cost, and spend hours on road trips waiting for and sitting at a charging station, and endure brown outs and black outs because they have killed off the electric generation industry and starved a patchwork of delapidated and outdated transmission systems, etc. etc. etc. Common sense seems to have died. We have a hundred years to advance technology and work out solutions for fossil fuels. Slow down, take a deep breath, smell the flowers, don't panic. Geesh, if you want something to panic about, start paying attention to the South China Sea where China, who apparently does not already have a big enough country or enough resources or has not subjugated enough billions of people, wants to reach out and subjugate even more.

Green energy is here yet. Let's open up our usage of coal, oil and natural gas.  Even Nuclear.  

On-site (solar, etc) generation to support eh grid might help a lot, but for now conservation is the only tool left in the box.  Nuclear has betrayed them, and fossil fuels are killing people, and things are only going to get hotter as time goes on. Good luck, Tokyo ! 

Gee, Joe, where are all those EVs going to plug into?  Right, don't supply the infrastructure first - wait until it's catastrophic- cart before the horse (or jack ass) as usual- Japan isn't the only country with this issue - WAKE UP 

Exxon Sees $5.5 Billion Refining Windfall as Gas Prices Soar

really?! thats just what gets reported after all the 'tuck-aways' - so why the exponential increase in prices

shame on you congress! 

Japan’s predicament is all of our in the future.  We need to build ether structures to deal with our extreme weather.  We need to develop energy resources that will provide much more than we need so we have a cushion for the extremes.  We need to think outside the box of few ideas our most conservative politicians and business people are stuck in.

For the last 10 years, daily record high temperatures have occurred 2x as often as record lows across the continental United States, up from a near 1:1 ratio in the 1950s. 

Heat waves are becoming more common, and intense heat waves are more frequent in western US.

Heat waves combined with high humidity measured by the heat index is more dangerous. A recent study projects that the annual number of days with a heat index above 100 will be 2X higher, and days with a heat index above105 will be 3X higher when compared to the end of the 20th century causing problems:

1) heat increases draught & wildfires 

2) Buildings, roads, and infrastructure absorb heat, leading to temperatures 1 to 7 degrees hotter in urban areas 

3) Extreme heat is a leading causes of weather-related deaths in the US killing an average of more than 600/year from 1999-2009, more than all other impacts (except hurricanes) combined. The Billion Dollar Weather Disasters database compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lists heat waves as 6 of the top 10 deadliest US disasters since 1980.

4) High humidity and elevated nighttime temperatures cause heat-related illness and mortality especially for older adults, infants and children, people with chronic health conditions, and outdoor workers. Extreme temperatures, air quality increases the production of ground-level ozone, a harmful pollutant that is the main component of smog, which can damage the respiratory system and is particularly harmful for those with asthma.  This year a runner dies and 15 other hospitalized in record-setting hot weather in NYC (5-21-22).

5) Agriculture - plant & animals especially when nighttime temperatures remain high and animals are unable to cool themselves. Heat-stressed animals have declines in milk production, slower growth, and reduced conception rates. (Humans are also animals). Texas minimum & maximum temperatures have risen by 2.2 degrees from 1895 to 2020 in every county but highest in those with infrastructure with record breaking triple digit temperatures in 2022.

6) Heat waves increase droughts and wildfires. In 2021 drought in the West caused ND cattle ranchers to sell their stock due to a lack of feed for the winter. Wildfires in California have burned agricultural land and are raising the cost of insurance for farms and wineries. 

7) high summer temperatures increase electricity demand for cooling but lower the ability of transmission lines to carry power leading to electricity reliability issues like rolling blackouts during heat waves. 

8) warmer rivers and lakes decrease their capacity for absorbing waste heat from power plants declines. 

9) Extreme weather - increases the intensity of Hurricanes like Harvey (2017) causing 100 deaths direct deaths & $125B in damages. From 2000 and 2019, rising sea levels caused the Texas coastline to retreat, on average, about 1.25 meters, or about 4 feet, per year, according to a 2021 University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology report for the Texas General Land Office. A 2021 report by the state’s climatologist found that a 1-meter relative sea level rise produces a doubling of storm surge risk.

After the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima (Japan) nuclear plant in 2011, officials have been hunting for new sources of green energy and have developed a prototype of a 330 ton airplane-sized turbine that can generate electricity from deep sea ocean currents hovering between 100 and 160 feet below the surface which hopefully will go into production by 2030.

Until Ben they are using a thermal plant using biomass (wood chips & waste products) for fuel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/21/nyregion/runner-dead-brooklyn-half-marathon.html

https://www.c2es.org/content/heat-waves-and-climate-change/

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/18/climate-change-texas/

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The authoritarian supreme courts conservatives limit the EPA to control pollution, Biden is trying the Help the U.S. clean up is After Trump hose every government departments and turn back the clock to McCarthyism in the 50's.

I purchased a 12kW solar panel system installed on three different roof surfaces last year in an area that is not sunny all of the time. Our state requires utilities to honor net metering until 2032. Any excess power that we generate and send to the power grid over a billing month is credited back at full retail value when it is needed later in the year.

We have very tall trees on neighboring properties to the east and south of us that shade the panels more than I anticipated when the sun is much lower on the horizon and the tress still have their leaves in October and November. The banked credits we are accumulating monthly now will help offset the loss in production. My last three electric bills covering some very warm high AC use periods were $16.05, the net metering meter monthly fee plus taxes. Our highest electric bill was $138 from December when we had a warm wet snowfall in the evening, followed by a week and a half of 10 degree weather- the snow did not melt off the panels until it warmed up some.

The system was designed using annual data for three years from a weather station five miles away to produce 14 MWh annually. We may be a little shy if that goal but really won't know for sure until mid August.

The system was expensive, but much cheaper because we paid cash by investing our 'untouchable' disaster relief fund - because the purchase price increases the equity of our house on a one-to-one basis. We can get a home equity loan for needed 'disaster relief' while improving our fixed income cash flow by greatly reducing our monthly electric bills.

I am a big fan.

We're next. In Pennsylvania we've already had more days above 90 than usual for June, and 10 fewer days of rainfall in what is typically one our rainiest months.

This is a direct consequence of the climate change we have caused, and that we are largely refusing to fight in our love affair with oil & gas, plastic and meat. 

I hope Japan's innovative spirit helps them find new ways to handle the heat, and I hope the "conservatives" in our country are ready to pay up for the disasters they're enabling.

Temperatures of 100+ degrees at 178 locations around Japan for 4 consecutive days in June which is typically the rainy season caused increased demand for electricity in the Tokyo area where 37M people live and sent 100+ people to hospital with heat stroke, 1 person died and another is in critical condition.

The unseasonably hot weather occurred while utility maintenance was occurring due to equipment failure (1 of 2 boiler fans) on 600-megawatt (MW) plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, a thermal plant,  in preparation for peak summer demand starting 7-1-22.

Sustained, increased temperatures occurring unseasonably early is stressing the power system as it’s not only the capacity require but also the downtime and cost to maintain the power grid which is also what caused the failures in Texas when preventative maintenance (winterizing) was not done to save money.

https://japantoday.com/category/national/Electricity-grid-strained-as-record-heatwave-scorches-Kanto-area

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20220630-41957/

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14657660

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2022063000393/

Thermal Power Plant in Fukushima Pref. Partially Halted

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What's the plan???

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