Posted on 07/28/2021 1:42:28 PM PDT by DFG
Of all of the endless follies of California these days—I know, it’s hard to enumerate all of them let alone put them in rank order—closing our last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon ranks perhaps at the top of the list. It provides more than 10 percent of California’s electricity, and can run 24/7, unlike wind and solar power. As one of the last nuclear power plants built and brought online in the 1980s, it easily has another 40 years of potential service left in it, if not more.
The perverse energy policy of California, which excludes nuclear along with any new dams from its legal definition and mandates for clean or “renewable” energy, virtually compelled the closure of Diablo Canyon, and the corporate socialists who run PG&E simply lied to the public that they can make up the shortfall with wind and solar power and magic batteries. In fact, they will make it electricity shortfalls in large part with natural gas and power imports from other states. It will likely cause California’s CO2 emissions (and utility rates) to rise, just as closing nukes in Germany has halted and perhaps reversed the greenhouse gas emissions decline in Germany, while doubling their electricity prices.
Even the very liberal Sacramento Bee has figured out that closing Diablo Canyon is a mistake. It editorialized earlier this week (and hat tip to our lefty friends at the Breakthrough Institute for breaking through to the Bee‘s editorial board):
The closure of Diablo Canyon and the driving forces behind the decommission project show that California’s ambitions are once again being humbled by the constraints of reality. The prospects of delivering on the promises of the 2016 agreement have sharply divided scientists, analysts and think tanks around the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Coming soon.
CA is even telling people what appliances and computers they can or cannot buy?
Gezzzuz
“California is nothing less than an open-air insane asylum.”
ROFL! Nice!
Is the roof-mount bracket option included? (So you can charge the car’s battery while you drive???)
Settle down, FRiends...it’s a joke!
Don’t worry, it’ll be made up by unicorn farts.
Modern turbines have a large rated range the very common 2.5mw GE.model produces power from 9 mph to 55 mph with the top end being less than .01% per annum even in class 5 areas the wind gusts for seconds or a few minutes over 50 mph. Only storms which are fleeting can produce winds of those speeds on a more than a busy basis.those storms will produce winds like that for small as in hours at most vs 8760 hours in a year. The vast majority of wind speeds and times in a class 2 to 5 zone are going to be under 50 knots overspeed is a none issue for onshore turbines there simply is not enough fetch to generate sustained long term winds of 50+ knots only the oceans with thousands of miles of fetch can sustain gales for days at a time. Offshore turbines are designed differently to take advantage of these class 6+ winds they use active stall control and feathering or spoilers to lift dump.
https://www.esig.energy/wiki-main-page/general-electric-2-5-mw-series/
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/how-do-wind-turbines-survive-severe-storms
But do they have to power alone to supply large communities 24/7/360?
So much for “street smart” Tony Baretta.
The Murder Can Hurt You movie parodied him rather well.
They closed San Onofre several years ago. It’s my understanding that it still had many years of operational years left too.
News to me. Thanks.
It is going to get much worse in California, and they deserve every bit of it for allowing their state to be taken over by communists.
“...it easily has another 40 years of potential service left in it, if not more.”
Dream on.
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