With warming,get used to blackouts to prevent wildfires

ap ^ | 10/11/2019 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[TChad]

With warming, get used to blackouts to prevent wildfires

With lawsuits against PG&E, get used to Global Warming being used as an excuse for blackouts.

[R_Kangel]

"With warming,get used to blackouts to prevent wildfires"

..... Actually ..... here in California we have been having a lot cooler than normal year ......

[eyedigress]

I understand the actual reason.

The ultimate reason is global warming.

[eyedigress]

To your average moonbat......

[Telepathic Intruder]

The blackouts were because of wind, not heat. The lies continue.

[excalibur21]

California is a huge chunk of the U.S. economy. The enemies of America couldn’t kill the country all at once so they started with California. This has been cooking for decades and is the long term effort. Now, it looks like they’ve nearly pulled it off.. We all want California to fall off into the ocean but realistically it would hurt the economy and the economy is how we finance the war against China, Russia and the other leftist tyrants. This is probably why they’re killing California businesses and flooding the state with non producing freeloaders.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Well, of course, And since the causers of the problems are so deeply entrenched in the government and schools of California, it really doesn’t make any difference if people believe otherwise anyway. Whether you believe or not, you’ll sit in the dark and watch your food spoil along with everyone else.

[Redwood71]

“.... bury the power lines.....”

Can’t bury the power lines in a volcanic state with fault lines on both sides of the state. They’re usually so small on the Richter Scale that they go unnoticed but on the average, there are over 10,000 earthquakes per year in California. Any one could rupture an underground power line.

Another problem is cost. Burying high-voltage transmission lines — the kind usually strung from immense steel towers across long distances — can cost as much as $5 million per mile, according to PG&E. The utility operates more than 134,000 miles of overhead power lines of one voltage or another across Northern and Central California. Who’s going to foot that bill and who is going to bury them in places not meant to walk on like the coastal range or the Sierras?? With the overruns and any weather, strike, equipment breakdowns..any number of problems that can bring it to a halt, will put the price over 3/4 of a trillion dollars.

And then you have to sink in the south that has more problems like mud slides, a whole lot more people, traffic, and some of the same fire problems, and they service 14 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximately 50,000 square miles. Where are those going to be buried? Can’t just tear down houses.

It sounds like a good idea, but financially and logistically won’t work. Wish it did.

rwood

[Bob434]

[[Expect more preventative power blackouts in California as the climate gets hotter and drier and the wildfire season gets nastier and longer,scientists say.]]

I predicted this was gonna happen the other day- and just like clockwork- here it is

[Tench_Coxe]

The country in the middle probably has no wildfires. Such an example;

[ThunderSleeps]

Warming? We just set record cold for this date. A record that had stood since WWII.

[cpdiii]

“Expect more preventative power blackouts in California as the climate gets hotter and drier and the wildfire season gets nastier and longer,scientists say.”

Texas gets a hell of a lot hotter than California in the summer and fall. Our utility systems are maintained in a rational manner and we do not have these fires as in California.

It should be noted that much of the budget of California “Pacific Gas and Electric” has been devoted to renewable energy instead of proper maintenance of their grid. This is a result of insane edicts on them by California government. The problem is self imposed by California government.

[SaxxonWoods]

This is just a sneaky way to force people to use less power.

Thousands will buy generators and burn gasoline during the blackouts.

So much for the sneaky “scientists”.

[a fool in paradise]

With bad forestry planning get used to blame shifting and Western civilization standard of living shaming.

[fastkelly]

California wind-farms are spinning freely in the wind if the grid is shut down. When there is no wind to spin the blades they turn the power back on.

[erkelly]

Or, Californians could wise up and dump the democrats.

[bray]

Coldest summer ever in the West and they still yap on about Warming.

[bray]

Mismanaging the forest for 40 years is the reason for the fires.

[rdcbn]

Your dog is probably smarter than most warming scientists

He is definitely more honest and truthful

There has been no significant climate change in California or its weather patterns in the last 100 years.

These lying pieces of scum are trying ascribe and apply hypothetical future “climate change” to current weather events which are totally within the historical norm to further their authoritarian agenda “ for our own good”

[rdcbn]

This highlights how Green Energy is a monumental misallocation of assets. Tons spent on unreliable and ill conceived utility grade alternative power generation systems.

Now that money is being shown to have been squandered as California deals with a predicted energy shortage and decaying and ill maintained infrastructure