California Blackouts: It's Not Just the Heat, It's Also the Anti-Nuclear Power Stupidity. Activists oppose a huge source of reliable, climate-friendly electricity that could have prevented the rolling blackouts in the Golden State.

Reason ^ | August 19, 2020 | Ronald Bailey

[minnesota_bound]

Oil is everywhere in California. Oil is leaking out of the cliff face in Santa Barbara.
Los Angeles has an ocean of it. Look up Long Beach oil fields

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[wjcsux]

I met the captain of an oil exploration ship several years ago. He said that there is so much oil off the California coast that it would take years to map it all.

[DCBryan1]

I met the captain of an oil exploration ship several years ago. He said that there is so much oil off the California coast that it would take years to map it all.

Same with gold. There is so much gold behind the ghost town, Bodie, that it would put CA back in the black. The enviro nuts wont let them mine the gold.

[Fresh Wind]

No problem.

Kalifornia will need to buy 12 gigawatts of battery backups for the state for a paltry $19 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/california-doomed-to-frequent-blackout-risk-by-battery-shortage

[JimRed]

Nuke works, and it’s not that difficult. Even France can do it!

[JimRed]

Rolling blackouts are common in second and third world countries. I guess that’s what California is becoming has become.

[JimRed]

The enviro nuts wont let them mine the gold.

I hate to agree with the enviros, but...Unfortunately, some of the mining methods include the use of harmful chemicals and actually do environmental damage. Other methods use humongous quantities of ground water or surface water which becomes contaminated.

Fix those problems and mine away!