Really? They are that quiet?
I have been pondering an electric snow blower myself.
Do you have reading comprehension issues or did you not read what I posted about the negative environmental impacts of AC? For those who care about the environment don’t use air conditioning!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/this-country-s-love-affair-with-air-conditioning-shows-a-catch-22-of-climate-change/ar-AA1cmfUV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=79ec51004ece4bfeb38611e6bc7735b3&ei=19
I read, understood, and gave that boring topic due deference.
In the real world–under historic heatwave conditions–green energy is the savior of Texas air-conditioning, while dispatchable gas plants stumble over their only job.
That is one of the many benefits which make the energy transition worth pursuing.
STODR
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It would wake up a light sleeper probably if going by their room. But I can’t hear mine inside house. It sounds like a big fan.
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STODR
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Ignorant statement. If they shut down the gas right now could windmills make up for it? No. If there is no wind days, what makes up for it? Fossil fuels. Here is an example of not having fossil fuels established and going all in on green.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/weak-winds-worsened-europes-power-crunch-utilities-need-better-storage-2021-12-22/
Places can always grab a generator. You can’t just grab a windmill and stick it up.
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Guvnah
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In a time of water shortages – especially in the west – and in a time of energy grid uncertainties, let’s destroy completely renewable hydro power, and drain reservoirs. 
“More than 2,000 dams have been removed in the U.S. as of February, with the bulk of those having come down within the last 25 years, according to the advocacy group American Rivers.”
Yup. That should really help things.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-work-begins-on-the-largest-us-dam-removal-project-tribes-look-to-a-future-of-growth/ar-AA1ezbIq
California tries to get by on green energy with the result being rolling blackouts.
If they get mostly EV’s they will have even more said blackouts and for longer periods of time no doubt.
i’d like to know the benefit of banning gas appliances like the left is doing
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There is none other than the left getting their jollies over trying to control everybody.
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pure authoritarians. can”t leave people alone
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Critical instruments froze at coal and gas plants during the storm
TVA’s study of the rolling blackouts revealed one of the biggest breakdowns during the winter storm: sensing lines for critical instruments that are kept outside or not fully enclosed froze at some of its natural gas plants and its major coal plant.
In preparation for the storm, Edmondson said, TVA used wind breaks and tried to insulate and temporarily heat pieces of infrastructure to prevent failures.“The majority of the megawatt loss events were due to sensing lines freezing up, critical instrumentation that froze up,” Edmondson said.
TVA had winter blackouts last year due to thermal outages.
Gas peakers have one job. There’s no excuse for being unreliable at it while costing a fortune per MW.
But I found a link in my basement!
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Which means we are still in an Ice age.
“We are currently living in the Quaternary Ice Age, this is only the fifth significant and severe ice age in Earth’s known history, and, so far it has lasted about 2.6 million years (technically 30+ million years ago when permanent ice appeared on Antarctica).”
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As I was reading this link, it reminded me of what my supervisor said about her Tesla. She doesn’t have the long range model. Hers gets about 250 miles per charge. Less when it’s really cold.
Talk about getting bilked for a fad. 
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