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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Is there enough roof space to hold enough panels to power the house, regardless of house size?
There isn’t in Mississippi not sure about Ca. Maybe in an area with minimum AC requirements.
I liked it when I lived there in the early 50’s. Carmel/Monterey area. ;-)
Picky, picky, picky. Unfortunately, the idiots who try to legislate human behavior or the laws of physics will be long gone before they have to live with the damage they create. Look at Ted Kennedy and his immigration law!
California will be the first state to virtue-signal itself to death.
Hmmmm. Maybe with enough windmills, it won’t snap off, it’ll fly off.
Ever wonder how the states manage to get wheelchair spaces in front of every business?Actually you can thank George HW Bush for that. He's the one that signed the ADA into law and it's potentially the worst federal business, especially small business, killing regulation ever passed...Worse yet it's enforced and administered by the Justice Dept.
Handicapped parking is nothing compared to the requirements business owners have to deal with once you get through their doors.
Ever wonder why the drain pipes (sink trap) in a public restroom is wrapped with foam tape? ADA. It doesn't sound like a big deal but every infraction, including not wrapping the pipes can have a $4,000 fine attached
Farms must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills? Wow. That’s insane fascism.
If they really cared about overweight women they would force them to park farthest away so they would get much needed exercise.:-)
Of course, but not for your refrigerated air conditioner.
Half correct. Wind is a dead end. Solar is solid state and improving rapidly. I wouldn't install the current generation of solar although in California there is a strong economic incentive to do so. But those same panels will be tossed in 20 years because there will be much stronger (and real) incentive to use the new ones. In the meantime the economic effect of the panels will be negative.
The new panels will have built in storage, no need for batteries. Also 2-3 times as efficient (2 for sure already working in labs, 3 in theory and in reality eventually).
It hasn’t passed yet. I doubt the windmill part will be in the bill after committee, as there are only a few places such as the Altimont Pass that have enough constant wind to generate power. Ca does have enough sun/hours per month year round compared to other states, but the cost for intertie is probably too high compared to NG generation.
"Beautiful old shade trees you've got there. Now take them down."
About 35 years ago, an individual I met, seriously suggested windmill generators on cars. Yes, he was a Californian.
Robbing Grandma.
When they get to this point, the people won't need a tyrannical state government to tell them to put them up, they will want to on their own because it makes sound fiscal sense. I think it's rude to single out Indians to give them free solar panels. After all anyone born in these United States is a native American and so are those born to American parents out of the USA.
Hopefully by then the batteries will be different so they don't leave such a bad pollution imprint and will be recyclable.
A person need not be a leftist to care about the environment.
The advent of extremely low power CMOS IC’s and LCD displays have made solar powered calculators a no brainer.
My first calculator was a Remington/Rand with nixie tubes. (not kidding) and I paid over $60 for it back in the 1970’s. It would add/subtract/multiply/divide, nothing more. I still have it somewhere, probably in my electronic shop. Last I checked it, it still worked.
I also still have a collection of slide rules. Some were mine, others my father-in-law’s. (he was an EE)
At every opportunity the California ruling democrats just want to make life more uncertain for the citizens of the state. That’s not representation, it’s thuggishness to garner more control that will result in slavery of the masses. Personally I don’t know anyone who is willing to be a slave of the state.
Never buy a home with vertical property walls UNLESS they are built with rock. Rock is permanent.
Avoid concrete retaining walls as water degrades it. Brick is okay if built like old Roman Appian way at 45 degree undercut.
Think about it, what vertical structures are permanent in nature? Rock. Even bridges require maintenance.
Jobs....... the bill reveals where Hillary’s green jobs were.
By forcing solar and wind, massive numbers of jobs are created.
What is actually needed is creation of California Greenie graves.
I agree with your comment as a whole. My one nitpick is that batteries are already recyclable whether lead or lithium (lead is easy to recycle at low cost).
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