New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On 230
First time accepted submitter inqrorken writes "During the recent cold snap, New England utilities turned to an unconventional fuel: jet fuel. Due to high demand for heating, natural gas supplies dropped and prices skyrocketed to $140/mmBtu and prompting the Mid-Atlantic RTO to call on demand response in the region. With 50% of installed generation capacity natural-gas fired, one utility took the step of running its jet fuel-based turbines for a record 15 hours."
Re:What the heck is RTO? (Score:4, Funny)
Sheesh! A quick Google search tells us that iRTO is the Really Terrible Orchestra [thereallyt...hestra.com].
Re:5th dimension; let the sunshine.... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, they should get off their fannies and do something about this whole ridiculously resilient ridge that's keeping it from raining at all this winter in California (and is possibly related to the arctic conditions elsewhere...?) Damn it, you just can't trust the military industrial complex to do ANYTHING right. Where are the supervillains when you need 'em?