California’s giant sucking sound

Watts Up With That? ^ | April 12, 2011 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California (cue Ross Perot’s giant sucking sound) our governor turns up the volume.

Flashback:

While not the main theme at the moment (hostile state over-regulation of business is) the election reminder of “It’s the electricity, stupid” may someday be a yellow sticky note on some campaign consultant’s computer monitor.

WUWT reader DD More says:

April 12, 2011 at 6:39 am

Heard on the radio news this AM and looked it up.

California governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign legislation today requiring energy firms in California to generate 33 per cent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020, delivering one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the world.

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2042816/california-governor-rubberstamp-cent-renewable-energy-target

Will you Cali-guys be starting a poll to guess the date someone in the state gives the Steve Holliday speech?

Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country’s grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won’t be available when the wind doesn’t blow, “The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that.

“We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/03/05/lawrence-solomon-don’t-count-on-constant-electricity-under-renewable-energy-says-uk-electricity-ceo/

Texas has already dealt with the electrical issues of renewable energy:

We Spent Billions on Wind Power… and All I Got Was a Rolling Blackout

And, so far, California’s wind power doesn’t hold up so well:

The reality of wind turbines in California – video

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Major ping!!!

[Beaten Valve]

“California’s giant sucking sound”

Yeah, it’s either taxes, the constant blare of Mariachi music, leaf blowers or the Mexicans trying to get their cars started on Sunday mornings...

[Windflier]

"...there’s a state delegation in Texas...trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California..."

It's magic, I tell you. Texas has put the hoodoo on California. Those businesses and families fleeing California to Texas, are under a spell!

Nothing else can explain it.

[al_c]

Yeah, it’s either taxes, the constant blare of Mariachi music, leaf blowers or the Mexicans trying to get their cars started on Sunday mornings...

Got plenty of that in Texas too. Channel surf the FM dial in Dallas and you'll get no less than 8 Hispanic music stations. Far greater than any other type of music.

[blueunicorn6]

Jerry Brown also signed a new California law that establishes that all matter coming out of the backside of a bull will henceforth be called “California Gold” and will be legal tender throughout the universe.

[my small voice]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[blam]

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[shankbear]

Taxifornia......Nobama’s model for America. Stick a fork in it.

[tennmountainman]

It all depends on who’s moving out. If liberals are packing their bags and bringing the same mindset that destroyed Calif to other states...watch out. Liberals are state destroyers.

[rawcatslyentist]

What kinda world do we live in where people and businesses flee from muggers?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Last link in the article is to a march 19 , 2011 article at WUWT:

The reality of wind turbines in California – video

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UPDATE2: The maintenance problem also extends to Germany:

From: jcwinnie.biz

“Gearboxes have been failing in wind turbines since the early 1990s. Barely a turbine make has escaped. The problem reached epidemic proportions with a massive series failure of gearboxes in NEG Micon machines. At the time, the NEG Micon brand was the most sold wind turbine in the world. The disaster brought the company to its knees ; It was taken over by Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, which still is challenged by gearbox and rotor failures.

As previously noted, a large number of gearboxes have had to be replaced “in large numbers.” Der Spiegel reports that the German Insurance Association is none too happy…

“In addition to generators and gearboxes, rotor blades also often display defects,” a report on the technical shortcomings of wind turbines claims. The insurance companies are complaining of problems ranging from those caused by improper storage to dangerous cracks and fractures… The frail turbines coming off the assembly lines at some manufacturers threaten to damage an industry that for years has been hailed as a wild success.

At Spiegel Online, Simone Kaiser and Michael relay a concern about installed wind turbines:

After the industry’s recent boom years, wind power providers and experts are now concerned. The facilities may not be as reliable and durable as producers claim. Indeed, with thousands of mishaps, breakdowns and accidents having been reported in recent years, the difficulties seem to be mounting. Gearboxes hiding inside the casings perched on top of the towering masts have short shelf lives, often crapping out before even five years is up. In some cases, fractures form along the rotors, or even in the foundation, after only limited operation. Short circuits or overheated propellers have been known to cause fires. All this despite manufacturers’ promises that the turbines would last at least 20 years.

[dblshot]

Dear Californians,
Don't believe Texas is where you want to be. It's hot and humid, we have fire ants and hurricanes. Property taxes will kill you if some six shooter toting drunk don't first. Yeah there's that Austin enclave of ex-Californians but we don't recognize that as Texas anymore, even if they are holding the capital hostage. Course Dallas ain't much better but least it's near Ft Worth and Arlington, what they call up there the Metrosexualplex or something. You won't want to breathe the air around Houston, or up in the Piney Woods if you've got allergies like most of you sissy's do. And you won't find that California cuisine thing called presentation or plating with the little artichoke in the middle of the plate neither, you'll be lucky to see the dang plate with a big ole chicken fried steak hanging off the edges. Trust me, everything is bigger in Texas and that little Prius you love is going to be blown off the road by some real woman in an F-250 on our soon to be posted 85mph highways. It might make you feel at home to see so many Mexicans but ours have been here long as the country has and they work, hard like Texans like to do. So please for your own sake stay in California or move to Portland, Seattle, or Denver, you've already screwed them up.
Love ya
Bubba

[RichInOC]

Southern California’s giant sucking sound comes from the porn studios in the San Fernando Valley.

[Windflier]

What kinda world do we live in where people and businesses flee from muggers?

Shameful, isn't it? /sarc

Seriously, though, I myself was driven out of Cali, some six years ago. I was the proverbial 'walking target', and had had enough of my home state treating me like an alien, or some sort of filthy disease.

Not to mention the fact, that as a father of four small children, I couldn't help but look forward in time to what type of environment they'd be trying to launch their adult lives in. In good conscience, I just couldn't relegate them to that uncertain future.

I'll be honest with you. There are times when I get very homesick, but a quick glance at the news coming out of there always snaps me back to reality.

[TheOldLady]

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[abigailsmybaby]

Newsom for crying out loud?! Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments to the article:

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ShrNfr says:

April 12, 2011 at 9:22 am

I think that CA should be forced to become an “energy island”. No exporting their pollution to other states. Make them live on what they generate. If they generate it and pay for it, who am I to argue. But export of stuff they do not want to other states around them is not in keeping with the spirit of the Sierra Club. On second thought, maybe it is since that spirit is “We got ours, you go suck wind.”

[thackney]

When enough business and people leave California, their current renewable generation will be able to meet the 33% requirement. The demand will probably fall that much.

[thackney]

Last year, while the rest of the country's electrical demand went up 4.9%, California's went down 3.5%.

http://eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_4_b.html

Keep jacking up the prices up and running businesses out. They will meet their goals.