Posted on 07/16/2017 6:57:55 AM PDT by rktman
The California Senate Majority Leader Kevin de León has introduced a new bill that would mandate the Golden State get all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2045. This replaces a law that was passed in 2016 that dictated that renewable energy sources be 50% of all electricity produced by 2030. This bill moves that requirement up to 2025 with the 50% edict and establishes the new 100% standard 20 years later.
What has not been widely discussed in the press – and buried in the details of the bill – is that all new homes and all homes sold must have solar panels as their source of energy. All apartment buildings with more than four units must install solar panels by 2025, and all commercial and office buildings must do the same. As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.
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This may or may not save money on energy per household but it won’t be green. The windmills kill millions of birds per year and solar needs batteries to be efficient which take 8 years to become green neutral to offset the pollution they generate to make as do the solar panels themselves.
This is really nothing more than a feel-good leftist type law/bill. It’s not green and I bet when all the costs are added up and averaged over 20, 30, and 40 years; it would not even be cheaper.
About the only good thing to come from something like this might be the roofing lasting longer due to the solar panels protecting them from the sun. Big whoop.
This has GOT to be satire
Great! More oil and gas for us.
Shhh...wait til they get to the part about requiring solar panels on the FR server!
If you put solar panels on windmills, the wires will get hopelessly tangled.
I was just thinking -
Can you imagine the collateral damage if an earthquake hits a whole subdivision or city? The grid goes down immediately, with no way of restoring it for months or even years, as one by one, the panel arrays are repaired and reconnected.
Solar power and wind power, except for some very small niche applications, are technological dead ends. To assure reliable power generation, all these systems have to be backed up, with with an unimaginable array of supercapacitors and/or battery storage systems, or with more direct substitution of natural-gas or other fossil fuel powered generation stations, plus as much development of hydroelectric generation as is both practical and possible.
Or they could come to depend on nuclear power generation, with its attendant storage and containment problems. THAT sends the greenie-weenies out into the street in screaming fits.
I thought it was already on wind power. ;-)
It’s really hard to satirize California.
Same here. I’d go solar but it is not affordable yet. And I refuse to put a lien on our no mortgage home.
farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.
To a certain degree, this is the State telling farmers that 25% of their land now belongs to the state and will be used as the state dictates.
and food production will drop by 25%.
On windmill energy, see Australia story. Highly dependent on windmill energy. Heatwave hit. No wind. To avoid a blackout they cut off energy to 90,000 homes. Welcome to the progressive future.
Birds?
Birds?
We don't need no stinkin' birds!
Someday we will change, “Go to h___.” With, “Go to california.”
Solar power works great in my calculator.
In California, truth is stranger than fiction.
People ask me if I plan to return to CA when I retire. I tell them I don't know.
I grew up in a beautiful state. But its beauty is being systematically destroyed by those who would render it a socialist utopia.
50% of all electricity renewable?
These people are out of their minds.
"As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills. "
Oh, the stupidity and the arrogance, it just burns...
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A joke unto themselves. Like Mrs. rktman says, “I love Carmel. Too bad it’s in cali.”
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