Posted on 10/07/2015 9:02:41 AM PDT by EagleUSA
Gov. Jerry Brown will visit Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles Wednesday to sign legislation mandating that half of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2030.
The ambitious mandates of SB 350, championed by Senate President pro tem Kevin de Leon of Los Angeles, were outlined by Brown in his inaugural address in January. But de Leon’s legislation was significantly watered down last month in the state Assembly, which stripped away a requirement that the state slash its gasoline use by 50 percent in the next 15 years.
That provision sparked heated debate in Sacramento, thanks to opposition from the oil industry and concerns from some Democrats who feared possible economic fallout from the move.
Despite the loss of the gasoline provision, de Leon said the legislation still includes steps that “build on California’s historic commitment to lead the world in the fight against climate change and build a healthy and livable planet for our children and grandchildren.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofsandiego.com ...
How about renewable WATER?
The headline should read:
"Governor Brown changes laws of physics"
Stop the foolishness. Spend the money on desalinization. That’s your real problem and necessary for survival.
So who will be the “Enron” they can blame when these chickens come home to roost in CA like the last time he signed one of theses decrees in 1979?
Seems too many voters in our lovely State have a passion for Democrackpots.
It’s not about survival, it is about crushing America for a New World Order. Planet wide socialism.
Moonbeam and aRnie will be long gone but their damage will linger for generations.
The lines will be long for those who would piss on their graves.
Free Republic’s “favorite” candidate supports the anti free market renewable fuel standards and ethanol subsidies so this shouldn’t be an issue.
At least the last business to leave won’t have to turn off the lights.
Trying to make California so expensive that the few remaining taxpaying normal people will be forced out.
“Gov. Brown to Sign Landmark Renewable Energy Law Wednesday”
It will be difficult to watch, but events are going to grind California’s economy - and many of the people that remain in the state - into pieces.
I feel bad for the normal, intelligent (and conservative) people who live in California. These stupid, liberal scumbags are going to drag them under the water just as surely as if they had tied a millstone around their necks.
Look at the stupid libtards in Europe (and in Vermont) who set these idiotic, stupid, unrealistic, unreachable, unattainable, and in the end, impossible standards.
They think that if they write a law, it will somehow FORCE them (and all the unwilling peasants who either don’t have a clue, or the enemies of the state who outright opine that those goals are unrealistic and/or impossible.
But liberals have this unshakable belief that if you don’t make a goal, you can’t reach it. They have no problem making an impossible goal and not reaching it. Conservatives believe that making a reachable goal, even a difficult one to reach, is far preferable from a human nature perspective. You get more done, and get it done constructively with a sense of accomplishment, not failure.
The Lord of the Flies wanders into energy policy.
Does the phrase “Necessarily Skyrocket” sound familiar?
I mentioned Vermont in my post, because while it is a gorgeous state, it is largely run by raging liberals, even though there still exist independent conservative folks there.
Back in 2011, Vermont decided that 90 percent of all energy used in the state — including electricity, transportation and building heating — will be provided from renewable sources by 2050.
Can’t be done.
The icing on this liberal wet-dream is that Vermont has had to purchase power generated by nuclear power from outside their borders, which makes the liberals heads explode.
I read a blog at vermontdigger.org that put it this way:
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Right now, Vermont uses 6,000 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity per year. (A GWh is a million kilowatt hours.) My estimate is that Vermont would need 18,000 GWh annually to achieve the 90 percent goal by switching to electric cars, heat pumps and so forth. That’s an outrageously big number, but it coincides with two other rough calculations I’ve seen from renewable advocates. In a recent op-ed, Charles McKenna, a local Sierra Club member, estimated the state would need 15,000 GWh in order to achieve the 90% renewable goal. In a recent Green Energy Times, David Blittersdorf, a renewable developer, said that the 90 percent goal will require three times the electricity we use now. (Three times 6,000 is 18,000.)
To put this number in perspective, consider that Vermont currently buys approximately 2,000 GWh from Hydro-Quebec. This is about a third of our current electricity demand, but it would be only a small fraction of the electricity needed for a 90 percent renewable goal.
Adopting an unrealistic, over-arching energy plan that calls for almost all energy to come from renewable sources essentially confers a blessing on all proposed renewable projects. Every project advances the “plan.”
I did another rough set of calculations to estimate how many wind turbines, biomass plants, solar panels and so forth would be needed to generate 18,000 GWh of electricity. The results are appalling. For example, making 18,000 GWh using wind turbines would take about 2,000 turbines, covering 400 to 700 miles of ridgeline. Vermont is only 160 miles long. Making the same amount of electricity from biomass would require 12 million acres of woodlands, sustainably harvested. That’s twice the size of Vermont.
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That is pretty funny. Of course, the calculations might be off, but...I would bet they are closer to the truth than the people who want to be all renewable by 2050.
the Bigun that destroys LA will facilitate the % changes for electricity usage in the state
That giant sucking sound is the sound of employers leaving Californai.
The headline should read:
“Governor Brown changes laws of physics”
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the legislature will next modify the gravitational constant.
Because THEY never have to live within their own edicts/Laws...
THEY don’t drive themselves, (rarely) arm themselves, feed themselves, etc.
Notice they never target vs. sq. footage? That would get nipped in the bud 1st hour it was brought up.
Well, it really is not about liberal stupidity but more for the ongoing modus operandi and the liberal mafia STEALING money from the public. The idea is to build unaffordable power generation equipment (solar mainly) and profit from it. And the secondary industry of natural gas backup systems which are required and greatly in favor of the big power providers like PG&E here and the others.
It really is a scam upon the people, ALL FOR MONEY. It is how the socialist libs operate. And the fools that are allowed to vote keep voting them back in to their own detriment. The libs are screwing their brains out...and the fools don’t realize it, or just don’t care as long as their welfare checks and food stamps keep coming. Hard to believe that CA was once the top state in the nation in all important respects. That was over 30 years ago. What a waste.
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