No Worries!
In Kalifornia, they are mandating bidirectional EV charging “to strengthen the Grid.” You’re asleep in your home. You think you are charging your EV for the morning commute. Some government apparatchik decides they need the electricity more than you do. When you awake in the morning, your EV is only charged to 20%. Oh well, you can just use the bus.
They want to use all of the electricity in all the EVs “when needed.”
The classic “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”
Mandate the EV, and take the electricity whenever you want. Lovely.
What could possibly go wrong?
Reminds me of when the Prius hybrid was new. It was considered the “correct” vehicle, saving the planet and all of the usual rotgut.
So, the Kalifornia democRATS decided to “reward” the Prius owners. They let the Prius drivers use the carpool lane, even if there was a only one person in the Prius.
Later, the government that giveth, the government that taketh away decided to rescind that “gift” of using the carpool lane.
So who will clean up all the broken solar panels when they turn to sh** in 5 years?
Eyesore
I wonder if those solar panels were provided by Obama’s paying back donors: “The Solyndra scandal involved the bankruptcy of the solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration.”
But the experts said ....
So WHO’S PAYING TO DISMANTLE THIS ATROCITY and restore the site to its natural state?
Yet another Kalifornia f***-up.
What is going to happen with all of that scrap glass left behind when they pull the plug?
Green energy works like this:
Gov pays for science showing need for green widget.
Gov subsidizes green widget.
Gov connected gets subsidy to make green widget
Gov connected uses subsidy to contribute to pols and pay himself handsomely.
Gov subsidy runs out
Green widget fails to deliver, company bankrupts.
Gov and connected move to next subsidy scam, taxpayers eat the loss.
I remember back when that overpriced, over-rated mess started up. I think it had it’s share of problems during, before, &after production as I recall. Another one down the tubes.
Its been noted that this plant was built on an airline flight path that virtually all of the planes leaving Los Angeles to fly to most of the country use...so lots of contrails. Evidently they didn’t conduct their feasibility studies at that spot, but rather some other spot not nearly as affected.
I know people who predicted it wouldn’t work, the problem with building these in the desert is the sand and the wind, a thin layer and sand dust and covers up your panels and it will greatly reduce efficiency, so unless you can clean it constantly it doesn’t work. You would need a sprinkler system that periodically cleans the panels, of course the cost of doing that, including transporting the water, would make the entire enterprise cost prohibitive.