“It does take lots of power. CA is short of power.”
California is banking on the surrounding states to provide for us. Because the powers that be are a bunch of NIMBY’s. It’s like not drilling for oil and then expecting to get a good deal from the Arabs. I differ with you on nuclear energy. We need to exploit that technology not curtail it. Technology can solve any existing problems. What it cannot do is force businesses to run nuclear plants with competent operators and good operating methods. TEPCO should be bankrupted for how it was running Fukushima.
But no matter. We need to solve the water problem, instead of building a bullet train to nowhere. But water isn’t sexy to the idiots in Sacto. like a high-speed train is, that is, until there’s a drought. And then it’s too late. The planet has plenty of water, it’s just not always where it needs to be. And I have to second what another poster pointed out. If LA deported all it’s illegals, it would have an effect on our water supply.
I agree the bullet train is stupid. Before the earthquake damaged Fukushima, I would have strongly supported desalinization with nuke power. San Onofre nearly joined Fukushima as the next big accident. It is “shutdown” for purposes of power generation. Still loaded with fuel and sitting on an active earthquake fault and on the coast. There is no money to properly decommission it. It is 20 miles from my current location.