Dangerous combination: Over 175 million facing record heat into the weekend

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A widespread, major heat wave will spread from the Midwest to the East and remain in place into the Fourth of July with both oppressive humidity and blistering highs that could flirt with some all-time records in parts of the mid-Atlantic states.

By late this week, over 175 million Americans in the Midwest and East will be at risk of either "major" or "extreme" heat-related health issues, according to the National Weather Service experimental HeatRisk product.

Triple-digit heat indices are expected for many, and daily low temperatures won't drop below the mid-80s for some, offering little relief at night.

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The NWS has issued numerous extreme heat watches, warnings and advisories for the eastern half of the country this week.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/record-heat-builds-across-eastern-144942665.html

[NNadir]

1. Here in New Jersey, on the PJM grid, with local temperatures in the high 90s, we're doing our share by...

...burning coal and gas to keep the air conditioners running.

Aren't we nice people? We should learn to speak German so we can converse with our friend in Germany, antinuke heaven.

Our current carbon intensity according to the electricity map is 447 grams CO₂/kWh. (Accesses 07/01/2026, 14:53 EST) Our 11.7 GW of peak wind power is providing 2.64 GW of actual power, for a 22.58% capacity utilization. It's a little cloudy this afternoon, our 13.2 GW peak capacity solar crap is producing 13.2 GW of power; when peak demand occurs early this evening, it will be producing zero energy.

On the PJM grid, we have 34.5 GW of nuclear power, operating at 94.03% capacity utilization, which is producing more energy than coal on our grid, since coal - about which our antinukes couldn't care less - is producing 25.7 GW of power and running at 66.33% capacity utilization. Dangerous methane is the main source as of this writing on the PJM grid; the powerful climate forcing gas is being combusted to release the main climate forcing gas on the planet, carbon dioxide. Dangerous methane is producing 57 GW of power, dumping its waste directly into the atmosphere.

I'm sure some asshole will announce we need electric cars in New Jersey.

I just returned from "Oklahoma by the sea," the only deep red region in deep blue New Jersey, Seaside Heights, where apparently the show for idiots, The Jersey Shore was filmed, besmirching our beautiful State.

There were fewer than usual signs worshipping the orange pedophile, but that of course, is too little, too late, as would be the plans to build new nuclear plants in New Jersey, something we desperately need.

To return to antinuke heaven, Germany, where they've also been burning coal to keep cool this week, and have, as of this writing, a carbon intensity even higher than the PJM, a carbon dioxide intensity of 468 grams CO₂/kWh. Their neighbor France, has been exporting electricity all over Europe this week, is currently running at 52 grams CO₂/kWh.

Three French nuclear plants needed to shut this week because of high ambient temperatures; a result of the other countries in the world refusing to follow the French example. We can expect the wind and solar advocates, to cheer, in the same fashion as the orange pedophile in the White House, who projects all of his own worst faults on to his betters.

High temperatures make Rankine devices, which all the nuclear plants in France and on the PJM grid less efficient.

Advanced nuclear plants should not be (pure) Rankine devices, but rather would be better designed to extract exergy from high heat via process intensification, thus greatly reducing the level of cooling required, and increasing efficiency. In a wiser world, this would have already been done, but our antinukes had their way, and hence the world is burning.