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Blackouts Loom In California As Electricity Prices Are “Absolutely Exploding”
Nation & State ^ | 6-26-2021 | Robert Bryce via RealClearEnergy.com

Posted on 06/26/2021 8:50:18 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

“issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

Sure I’ll reduce just as soon as you reduce criminal foreign invaders from entering the state


101 posted on 07/03/2021 5:36:01 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: dragnet2
Don't worry, according to electrical engineer Alexandria Ocasio Cortez "Windmills could like TOTALLY handle that!"


102 posted on 07/03/2021 5:42:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Revel

Sequoyah Nuclear Plant and Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage


103 posted on 07/03/2021 5:45:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: blam

making the problem even worse all the producers are leaving the state just as fast as they can.


104 posted on 07/04/2021 6:29:28 AM PDT by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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To: Elsie

Amen. Preach it sister. In season and out of season.


105 posted on 07/04/2021 12:26:42 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: blam

Better get an electric car!!


106 posted on 07/04/2021 12:32:12 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: libh8er; Cold Heart; dragnet2; blam; All

What percent of California homes have solar power, what percent of CA energy is produced by solar or wind power? How much electricity is required for buildings or electric vehicles now? How much would be required, say in 10 years, if lots of Californians buy electric vehicles? At least part of this could be resolved by sensibly phased increases in solar/wind supply and vehicle needs. Nuclear increase could help, but have we resolved the nuclear waste disposal issue? I am not aware of any improvements in that issue.


107 posted on 07/05/2021 12:51:10 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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" Nuclear increase could help, but have we resolved the nuclear waste disposal issue? I am not aware of any improvements in that issue."

I saw a one hour special on this reactor that Gates/Buffet developed. I was impressed...it actually uses waste from all the stockpiles around the country as its fuel. And, it can never melt down, ect. It looks like the way to go, IMO.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett Building Nuclear Reactor In Coal-Rich Wyoming

108 posted on 07/05/2021 1:25:19 PM PDT by blam
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Thanks for the link. I will look forward to reading and discussing it when my energy efficiency concerned partner returns home later this week.


109 posted on 07/06/2021 4:25:25 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Big Red Badger

Wetbacks


110 posted on 07/08/2021 1:27:20 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (5The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: 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.”

Considering that California owns 27% of PVNGS that might be hard to do.


111 posted on 07/10/2021 9:50:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Revel
U.S. pumped storage capacity:


112 posted on 07/10/2021 9:55:59 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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“I was impressed...it actually uses waste from all the stockpiles around the country as its fuel.”

No. It uses HALEU. More enriched than the new fuel for most present reactors.


113 posted on 07/10/2021 10:05:03 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: blam

“And, it can never melt down,”

Where did you see that?


114 posted on 07/10/2021 10:09:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: blam

Soon, very soon, smart meters will control your electricity, gas and water use…they will control where your thermostat, you will have strict gas and water budgets…try to go over, and you won’t be able to. You won’t be able to set your a/c below 80, your heat above 68. Need to wash clothes one more load…too bad, you have used too much water and electricity this month. It’s coming, rather soon, sort of like the old Twilight Zone lead in.


115 posted on 07/10/2021 10:09:48 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: blam

With all that hot air the liberal exhaust out of their mouths you’d think those windmills in Kali would be nearly blowing over producing electricity.


116 posted on 07/10/2021 10:23:37 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: blam
The Left -- which is in complete control of California -- destroys everything they touch ... everything
117 posted on 07/10/2021 10:25:06 AM PDT by glennaro (Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
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To: CodeToad

So. if less than $950 just don’t pay your bill. Theft of electricity is non prosecutable. Stealing $300 worth of electricity is the same as stealing a TV from Walmart


118 posted on 07/10/2021 10:30:11 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: bert

lol. True. Why not do that? Just don’t pay the bill.


119 posted on 07/10/2021 10:31:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Well I work with a former PG&E employee.
He laughed when I bought a ton of their dirt cheap stock a year ago on the bet that it’ll double maybe in 5 years.

Sounds like that might be a pipe dream.

CA is a haven for instability, negligence, and apathy based on what I have been reading lately. Wow!


120 posted on 07/11/2021 2:21:35 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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