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You are still wrong about the transmission of power over long distance, so we will call this one a draw. I also note that you did not answer any of my questions regarding your second pint. You just cannot stand it that someone proved you wrong, can you?

Funny that you call me Mikey, in such a condescending tone, thus illustrating my point about Phd's being arrogant assholes compared to real Doctors.

"You are still wrong about the transmission of power over long distance, so we will call this one a draw. I also note that you did not answer any of my questions regarding your second pint. You just cannot stand it that someone proved you wrong, can you?"

Nope. You haven't proved anything. I did some homework on what the grid is, and how it works, and it is YOU who don't understand it. The grid is a mechanism for establishing redundancy, allowing load sharing, and bypassing outages. What it is NOT is a means for transmitting power an appreciable amount of power from California to Maine. The basic laws of physics preclude that---it's called "transmission losses". High voltage power cables have a resistance of about 1 ohm/mile. If the transmission voltage is 475KV, and the distance is guesstimated at 4000 miles, then the maximum current you can transmit is around 120 Amps--or about enough to power a single household.

"Nuclear Power capacity in Calif.: 4314 Mw
percent of total power generated: ~ 9.8%"

"Geothermal capacity in Calif: 2500 Mw
Percent of total power generated: 4.8%"

And the total possible developable geothermal power for California is what?? THAT is the statistic that counts.

"I do fully agree that nuclear is the better way to go for clean efficient energy, but you should not be so condescending in your abrupt and often erroneous assumptions regarding geothermal."

The only problem with your little fantasy is that I haven't been wrong on any point.