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Planned blackouts: This is 21st-century California! Exclusive: Barbara Simpson likens power company's plan to the good ol' days growing up in Jersey
wnd.com ^ | 10/16/2020 | Barbara Simpson

Posted on 10/17/2020 7:16:43 AM PDT by rktman

Who knew that living in 2020 California would be reminiscent of my childhood?

Here we are, with all the modern conveniences of 2020 in a state that is considered technically first-class in this country, if not the world, and I find myself scouring my memory for some of the means we used to survive bad weather when I was a child growing up in the woods of New Jersey.

It really is mind-boggling!

As I write this, our power company, PG&E – Pacific Gas and Electric – which, we are told, is the nation's largest utility company, is about to turn off our power. And it's all because of the weather forecast.

According to the weather guy, we're in for several, days of temps in the 90s and 100s and hot winds of 55 mph or more, with gusts up to 70 mph and higher.

Hot temperatures and low humidity in Northern California isn't unusual, nor are the winds. Here, they're called Diablo Winds – in Southern California, they're are called the Santa Ana Winds. They are HOT and fierce – I've experienced them all, and they are no fun.

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Well Barbara, you're still there. I know, some don't have a lot of choice. Anyway, just think how much more awesomer it'll be when the push for renewables really gets into high gear. Sort of like here in NV. The constitutional mandate for 50% renewables by 2030 is up for it's 2nd approval on the upcoming ballot. Passed 60-40 two years ago and it must be passed again to be put in to place. Hopefully folks have done a little research since then and it will be defeated. But I'm not betting on it. Because basically most people are too lazy to do much research any more and remain ignorant.
1 posted on 10/17/2020 7:16:43 AM PDT by rktman
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The old joke about what did (insert here) use to light their homes before candles was never supposed to be a policy goal.


2 posted on 10/17/2020 7:21:43 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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They will just adore the rolling blackouts that last for days and not being able to charge their car. ... and there’s Generac Power Systems - prices starting at $2,000!


3 posted on 10/17/2020 7:22:38 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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***Because basically most people are too lazy to do much research any more and remain ignorant.***

So true, most just want to be spoon fed their information. They trust what they are told even if it contradicts what they see and know in real life.


4 posted on 10/17/2020 7:22:40 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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So, how come we didn’t need N95s when the pig flu showed up? :-) Guess we weren’t force fed that requirement at the time.


5 posted on 10/17/2020 7:26:09 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Hmmm. I wonder exactly how renewables is spelled out. Coal is renewable. It just takes a freaking long time.


6 posted on 10/17/2020 7:26:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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LOL! Some “x-spurts” say petroleum is as well. My question is just how many frigging dinosaurs were there to have supplied this much petro for so many years? And still being pumped like crazy.


7 posted on 10/17/2020 7:28:41 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The liberals think you can resist the construction of power production, defund the military and police, confiscate firearms, tax businesses into oblivion, eliminate fossil fuels and regulate agriculture to protect imaginary environmental interests, but still have their suv’s, cheap food, personal security, cell phones and cheap electricity. They don’t live in the real world.


8 posted on 10/17/2020 7:29:23 AM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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Don’t expect to put a lot of miles on the all-electric cars the Democrats expect you to have to buy.


9 posted on 10/17/2020 7:34:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Their thinking only goes this far:
“Fossil fuel — bad, dirty, evil, non renewable”
“Green — good, clean, economical, sustainable”

People have been spoon fed lies in this forever.


10 posted on 10/17/2020 7:34:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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Plenty of information out there about the so-called “renewable energy”. What a joke! Even some of the most conservative states are delving into the use of it. Makes no sense at all, because you still must have conventional power plants if you are at all interested in reliable electric power. Only stands to reason if you try to use both it must cost more. That’s only part of it, though. People,and especially those with influence over the “renewable” power projects need to know what they are committing everyone to. If you run both conventional sources & the “renewables” one or the other must at least partially shut down periodically & this is not efficient nor does it save any money. Almost all of our electricity must be supplied as continuous frequency alternating current. Read up on this & then decide if you want it & vote accordingly for those who determine/control of our energy output.


11 posted on 10/17/2020 7:35:15 AM PDT by oldtech
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Another reason not to go to California. Kindly do not bring that thinking here.


12 posted on 10/17/2020 7:36:12 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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California treats electric utility investors badly, but wants to become far more reliant on electricity.


13 posted on 10/17/2020 7:36:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Idiotic ideas from the mentally ill


14 posted on 10/17/2020 7:38:19 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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Exactly


15 posted on 10/17/2020 7:39:16 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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Since those dead trees were allowed to remain, they have become instant tinder for any random spark.

Everyone should graciously Thank the Sierra Club for keeping the Forests in their Natural Habitat
16 posted on 10/17/2020 7:40:46 AM PDT by eyeamok
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The winds are strong enough that small windmills could work well.

Surely California engineers could magnetically couple an air conditioner compressor to a windmill shaft.


17 posted on 10/17/2020 7:40:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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In the UK, “low windmill output” has been a problem for the National Grid.


18 posted on 10/17/2020 7:42:27 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Another thing I guess I should have mentioned about “renewable” energy is that no matter who controls power transmission, you will still have power poles & wires, so the electricity blackouts would be just as common, until somebody gets their mind straightened out & realizes that the forests need to be controlled much better so as to alleviate the need for power blackouts.


19 posted on 10/17/2020 7:45:31 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Spok

In Germany and the USA, there is “denken” and “glauben”.


20 posted on 10/17/2020 7:46:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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