In 2020, electricity met 44 percent of residential energy needs while natural gas, for appliances like stoves and furnaces, provided 43 percent. “That is primarily attributable to the growth in electrification of heating systems.” Why winter is becoming a trickier time for the power grid “In PJM, the highest electricity demand peaks are in the summer, but you will see that the long-term expected increase in the winter peak actually outpaces the growth in the summer peak,” said Jeff Shields, a spokesperson for PJM, in an email. In power markets like PJM, which serves 13 Eastern states and the District of Columbia, winter energy needs are increasing faster than any other time of year - even more rapidly than the ever-hotter summers.

And parts of the country have already seen what happens when it doesn’t hold up: Power outages across Texas during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 contributed to at least 700 deaths across the state. Our current energy infrastructure is getting by - but just barely. As more homes switch to electric heating, winter electricity usage is rising faster than it is in the summer across much of the US, and that’s a mounting challenge for utilities. The cold weather makes these vulnerabilities clear, but it also reveals that wintertime energy demand is rapidly changing.

But some homes in states like Oregon, Louisiana, and Kentucky did go dark amid the icy weather, while other regions came precariously close to shortages. The good news is that for the most part, the lights stayed on and toes stayed warm as most of the US avoided sweeping blackouts. In fact, the Tennessee Valley Authority - the federal power utility that covers states including Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky - set a new power demand record last week, not just for winter, but for all time. Lastly various Letterboxd denizen randos and cynical Twitter comedians, some of which inexplicably have follower counts in the tens of thousands (people like and is a lot of crossover with working film people, NYC/alternative comedians, shitposter nobodies, Dirtbag Left media types, and older critics, but these alliances form and fall at whims.The recent deep, biting chill that froze the United States forced millions of furnaces to switch on at the same time, raising energy demand to new seasonal highs during one of the diciest times of year for power reliability. One or two actual film industry professionals like Lexi Alexander, John Magary, and A.B. Dowd, etc,Ī very small handful of graduate students like Lance St. Various loose critics like Walter Chaw, Mark Harris, Dave Itzkoff, Nick Pinkerton, Roxana Hadidi, Sonny Bunch, William Bibbiani, Brian Haley, Bill Ryan, Nicole Veneto, BJ Colangelo, Brandon Streussnig, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Charles Bramesco, A.A. Some comedians like Griffin, James Urbaniak, and Andy Levy, Grace Randolph and the scuttling crabs who tweet first reactions,Ī handful of accounts for small entities like Screen Slate magazine and Hit Factory Podcast, I generally think of it as the following:Ī lot of the critic guests on Blank Check and their colleagues, And at this point, like the premise of the entire show, it’s almost a joke that Mitch is the host of what is technically a critical evaluation show and his capacity to evaluate anything goes only as far as “it’s gud” or “it’s bad.” So I don’t think his film opinions really even demand to be taken seriously So while I don’t think Mitch is a misogynist, he’s still holding on to those same unchecked biases that misogynists use to criticize the movie. He just shuts it down, and doesn’t really defend his point. With TLJ it’s a very old school fan argument of “this isn’t literally the thing from my childhood, and is therefore inferior” taken to a pretty obnoxious extreme. They covered the pilot of Yellowjackets on the double, and he kept dismissing it as “campy” without ever really defining what about it he felt made it that way, until eventually the guest had to tell him point blank that word doesn’t mean what he thinks it does, and it isn’t an accurate descriptor of the show even if you wanted to criticize it. This is how he engages with most things he has decided not to like.

Mitch has never actually articulated an argument against it, he mostly just hears a defense of it and calls it bad.

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