Blackouts Loom In California As Electricity Prices Are “Absolutely Exploding”

Nation & State ^ | 6-26-2021 | Robert Bryce via RealClearEnergy.com

[kiryandil]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

C’mon hamsters! Start spinning them wheels!

[teacherwoes]

Is calling it a “blackout” another sign of white supremacy and thus racist?

[Rio]

at least they can feeeel good about being so GREEN.

[libh8er]

I think 20% of the LA area’s energy needs is supplied by the Palo Verde reactor in AZ. We should cut that off. Let them truly enjoy their windmills and sunshine.

[dragnet2]

Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average

??

And it’s going up?

Wait till they get 80 million electric cars sucking on the grid.

[Cold Heart]

Might be interesting to watch the price of used electric cars and how many are going up for sale..

[ProtectOurFreedom]

… blackouts and high electricity prices [will happen if we] decarbonize our economy too quickly.

The speed of decarbonization has no bearing on prices and reliability. The simple fact of the matter is that we will have blackouts and sky-high prices if we do not build nuke and fossil fuel power plants.

[pangaea6]

Those go down while gas powered prices sky rocket. It’s all going up, everywhere and the democrats have no idea how to fix it, everything was running great with Trump

[blam]

"I think 20% of the LA area’s energy needs is supplied by the Palo Verde reactor in AZ. We should cut that off. Let them truly enjoy their windmills and sunshine."

My son lives in LA, Sierra Madre. I told him when he called Father's day to buy an electric generator and some propane bottles like I have for hurricanes. He didn't seem that interested.

[Big Red Badger]

Nuke It from Space
It’ll be less Painful.
Screw California.
.
Born a raised here and
I’d like to know
WHO moved here to
Make it such a Nightmare?
California is blamed for
turning Red states Blue, correct?
WHO OR WHAT SCREWED CALIFORNIA???

[lightman]

The "Green" RAW deal.
Welcome to BIDENISTAN, suckas!

[Big Red Badger]

I just got a 300 dollar
Voucher for a Generator
From SDG&E.
My power will be
Out 9 hrs tomorrow to
Replace a Pole.
(The two aren’t related.)
Third time This month!
Screw California,
I need My Juice!

[upchuck]

Thanks for posting this. Sure glad I don’t live in CA.

[ocrp1982]

All thanks to God Almighty for inspiring me and my wife to leave our home state 15 years ago. He gave us the Wisdom to see the trend and decide to leave while the leaving was opportune for us. We debated between Texas and Florida. Decided upon Florida. Again, God Blessed us with wisdom. Our family back then said we were overreacting. Now they ask us how did we know? My response is because we were paying attention.

[ConservativeMind]

That was a well-researched, concise read.

Thanks tor posting it.

[Revel]

Using chemical polluting batteries which are made of materials that are mined and therefore cause environmental damage before they are even used. And they use a lot of energy to make. Then in a few years they have to be replaced.

And the scale needed to store any significant energy for power is just massive.

You want energy storage then how about this. You have two very large tanks holding a million Gallons. One is placed above the other in elevation. The taller one has a discharge through a turbine to produce electricity. The water then drains into the lower tank. The lower one has a pump to pump water back into the upper tank. When demand is low then you do the pump back. When demand is high then you do the discharge. Works just like a gigantic battery. And environmentally friendly.

[eyedigress]

Jennifer Hernandez, the lead lawyer for The Two Hundred, a coalition of Latino leaders, told me those regulations are “incredibly regressive” and are bringing “Appalachia economics” to California’s “non-coastal elites.”

[Spok]

California is becoming uninhabitable, and it’s the unintended consequences that are making it so. The intentional harm is being outdone by gross ignorance.