Posted on 08/19/2020 11:06:03 AM PDT by karpov
get out your fans and solar panels, ha ha ha ha ha This is the prelude to the green new deal
Hey, hey now. Let’s all get a grip. All California needs to do is to figure out how to capture all the energy from all the wildfires it has, store it, convert it, and transmit it.
Where’s Nicolas Tesla when we need him?
It’s called forward thinking.
...as do electrons, apparently.
Maybe. With the illiteracy of todays “news media” and their prolific selection-by-race-and-poltical-trends, we really cannot guess at what was actually said about power and energy, what is actually needed by California as a whole and as a future, and what is “wanted by the enviro’s” as a miracle.
All that compared to what miracle the enviro’s expect as a “solution” - For example, “We must close all of the fossil-fueled power plants because wind and solar and tidal power will power everything in ten years” is treated as a valid, honest assessment!
And then after all of that, what power over what period of time is actually needed now, next year, five years from now, and 25 years from now in the real world.
Even if it were possible, do these idiots realize the environmental impact of lead and lithium batteries in both their manufacture and disposal?
They think storing spent nuclear rods is a problem.
Wait till these batteries show up.
Confiscate all the Tesla sports sedans In LA and wire them all together! That should make a tiny little dent in their power deficit.
I'm going off memory here, but I read an article about a college in California, several years ago, they decided to convert completely to renewable energy, figuring they'd make the investment up front, and recoup it on the electricity savings. After spending more money than the college would have spent on electricity in twenty years, they were providing something less than five percent of the needed energy, and the solar panels, etc., had a twenty year life span.
Your point about power needs 5 to 25 years from now is especially important, considering they're wanting all the cars to go electric to reduce emissions.
Thank you
California doesn’t need batteries, California needs their five nuclear generators back.
I see pictures of Japan, Hong Kong, Beijing; the cities are lit up like Christmas Trees all night long. And yet we are doomed to low-watt lighting, power restrictions, tier pricing, dark alleyways and streets that breed crime, and skyrocketing electric bills that we were guaranteed would be lower, ‘practically free,’ under solar/wind.
I bet the utilities are told NOT to disconnect any rich celebs or politicians homes.
Warren Buffet once famously said that the only reason anyone would invest in wind farms was to harvest government subsidies. There is no other possible economic reason for their existence.
I hate driving the land and seeing them eye sores. Rather see a coal plant every 4 or 5 hundred mile.
12gigawatts. My goodness. That is about 12 large units of real power plants. Good luck with the battery idea and you still have to charge with excess energy.
Why not go for 1.21 gigawatts? At least it will power the delorean!
That's the same as building dynamite storage facilities inside city limits. Democrats usually build their disasters in Republican areas so that is a step in the right direction.
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