Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/12/2011 12:06:56 PM PDT by 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:
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.
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:
At this point, not even a solid conservative government in your state, if it could come to past, is going to save you from the lack of power you will experience in the years to come. The gig is up.
No, you all don’t wanna come to Texas.
We got blazing hot weather, bugs, mesquitos..
I keep telling people we still have some open land in Texas, but we’re building windmills fast so it’s going quick!
These people are sick.
But everybody here already knows that, save for a few trolls.
Thanks Ernest.
Looks good,...more fancy then the stuff out on the High Plains were I grew up!
Thanks for the ping!
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