Posted on 11/27/2019 7:09:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The costs of global warming continue to mount up.
Californians pay nearly the highest electricity prices in the continental United States, about twice as much per kilowatt-hour (kwh) as in nearby Oregon and Washington.
Nevertheless, California's prices are probably not high enough.
Some of the fires plaguing the drought-stricken state were caused by electrical lines downed by falling trees and by malfunctioning transformers. These fires have caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and other property.
The resulting lawsuits have bankrupted Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE).
Ultimately, California's electricity consumers will have to pay for what it costs to generate and transmit power safely and will do so in their electric bills. Since the current price of electricity in California, high as it already is, is insufficient to pay all of these costs, the price per kilowatt-hour will have to go up, probably a lot.
The price in California may soon equal or surpass the current rates in Hawaii ( 34 cents per kwh ) or in Germany (27 cents per kwh).
As the price of electricity goes up, it will motivate people to use less of it.
It will also encourage more people to install solar panels on their houses and businesses. These actions will reduce how much electricity PGE will need to pump through its lines, making it easier to operate them safely.
The coming price increases in California will not be pleasant.
Unreliable electricity would be worse.
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Don't they have a disconnect SWITCH?
The key there is migratory.... kill away.
I’m on a well and I have a generator if (when) the power goes out.
But; I need a bigger one since I’ve converted from propane to electric on the water heater and dryer.
I’m hoping we hold out til tomorrow from any outage caused by the high winds in central Indiana today.
If my two electric ovens with turkey and ham will NOT function; Mama will NOT be happy; therefore neither will the rest of us!
Wouldn’t that be like requiring citizenship papers for each bird?
Otherwise; not a bad idea!
Blackouts and more expensive electricity didn’t stop California from banning all gas appliances in new housing. They do not seem to have many intellegent people in California government.
from a quick glancewages in Dallas are about 80% of San Diego 50% San Francisco (for my industry - insurance)
There is a window of migration.... if they miss that window, and stay, they ain’t migratin’ No more
re: “Time to break the power of Big Electric and become self-sufficient. “
The idea behind BrLP’s (Brilliant Light Power) Hydrino-based reactor called a “SunCell” (tm). Is is inaptly named SunCell because it was initially supposed to use a black-body radiator emitting high-level IR through visible light into concentrator solar cells to produce DC electricity.
Tests recently in a 200 gallon tank for calorimetry / energy output measurements clocked in at about 125 kW thermal for a device about the size of a basketball.
re: “Don’t they have a disconnect SWITCH?”
Look up how a “grid tie inverter” works.
re: “HOWEVER-—When the power goes down or is deliberately shut off-—YOUR SOLAR IS ALSO SHUT OFF “
Easy cure.
These systems use “grid-tie” inverters. The simplest way to USE them is with a small generator THAT ACTS LIKE incoming “power” from the grid don’t ya see ...
The solar array and associated grid tie inverter WILL THEN produce power.
Easy peasy.
There is a guy on YT who did just this, when power was out in Fla back during Hurricane something ...
No Grid Electricity Solar Grid tie inverter + Generator Hurricane Irma GreenPowerScience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT81_SI73Ck
I think the RATIO of wages to cost is what matters; not the absolute value.
Of course; the IRS would REALLY like to have us ALL be in the SF brackets; taxwise!
I don’t think Income Taxes care much about where you live! or the cost of living!!
Uh; what heats up this radiator?
re: “Uh; what heats up this radiator?”
The reaction forming the Hydrinos ...
re: “Uh; what heats up this radiator?”
We had this conversation, or the beginnings of it, just a few weeks or a month back didn’t we?
Was that YOU?
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