USA Electricity
How do you rate the supply of Electricity in USA? Are there many outages, are electrical lines maintained? What is the average cost of a home using electricity?
What is the main source of electrical power for USA? Is the use of Electricity in USA governed by laws which impede its use?
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We get our electricity from mostly coal power plants but a lot of America is working to get more and more electricity from alternate energies like Solar, wind and nuclear. I would hope with the advances in solar and wind powered turbines along with water driven turbines that we can rely less and less on fossil fuels to give us electricity.
Actually, coal fired electricity is down around 35%. It's still the single largest contributor but natural gas is catching up quickly. Natural gas has the advantage of burning a lot cleaner too, thus a lot less pollution and we produce a tremendous amount of natural gas. I think between natural gas and nuclear one will replace coal as the largest contributor soon.
Droughts could hit aging power plants hard. Droughts will pose a much larger threat to U.S. Power plants with once-through cooling systems than scientists previously suspected, a new study shows. If surface waters warm 3 degrees Celsius and river flows drop 20 percent, drought-related impacts will account for about 20 percent of all shutdowns or capacity reductions at these plants. Retrofitting the plants with recirculating cooling systems will significantly reduce their vulnerability to costly impacts from both drought and environmental regulations. Source 5h.
Whenever there is a failure it is always someone else to blame. Every year there is some kind of catastrophe with the weather and yet nothing is done to better the system. They always act like if they didn't expect it when history has proven otherwise.
Would our electricity be considered part of our infrastructure? If so, it's outdated, just like a lot of our roads, bridges, and other things related.