Posted on 08/03/2015 4:53:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With his Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama is repeating California’s expensive mistake of ignoring the engineering realities of saving the planet and imposing political quotas requiring solar, wind and other renewable energy sources.
The big problem is that solar and wind energy are inherently unreliable. Solar power plummets on cloudy days, and falls to zero at sundown. Same goes with wind turbines on a windless evening.
In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature required utilities to use renewables for 20 percent of their power, a figure later increased to 33 percent by 2020.
If these seem like suspiciously round numbers, go the head of the class. No scientist said optimal climate-change strategy requires getting a fifth, one-third, or half our power from renewables. Another clue is that carbon reductions weren’t linked directly to the policy.
You’d think that mandating huge purchases of zero-carbon energy would naturally cut emissions by a like amount. But you’d be wrong.
The result wasn’t just bad for the planet, it’s been horribly expensive. Indeed, California’s crash program explains why residential rates have jumped 42 percent for customers of San Diego Gas & Electric.
Obama has missed an opportunity to learn from California’s experience, which suggests that renewable mandates may do less to save planet Earth than to save utilities and green energy developers on Wall Street — at the expense of consumers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sandiegouniontribune.com ...
Experiences of a bunch of white people don’t count.
Isn't it a shame he and his clan don't feel that way about our country!
He didn't miss a damned thing.
The little dirtball drew up the plans for California's experience.
"Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," Obama told the Chronicle. "Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."---Obama, January 2008
Dirtball didn't get cap and trade but executive-order EPA regs are an attempt to accomplish the same thing.
he wants to shut off electrical supplies just in time for the next ice age
video here:The Sun is Going to Sleep
Bird free since Obammy took office.
WIND POWER!!
Harness the Hot Air in DC and we would be self sufficient !!!
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