C’mon hamsters! Start spinning them wheels!
Is calling it a “blackout” another sign of white supremacy and thus racist?
at least they can feeeel good about being so GREEN.
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.
Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average
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And it’s going up?
Wait till they get 80 million electric cars sucking on the grid.
Might be interesting to watch the price of used electric cars and how many are going up for sale..
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.
Thanks for posting this. Sure glad I don’t live in CA.
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.
That was a well-researched, concise read.
Thanks tor posting it.
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.
California is becoming uninhabitable, and it’s the unintended consequences that are making it so. The intentional harm is being outdone by gross ignorance.
.........a good friend of mine sold her house near Sacramento and as she put it........”I got the hell out!”
California will continue to elect Liberal Morons and things will continue to go to hell. In a dark house, they may be able to call a cop on their cell phone if it is working. Even if they do, DEFUNDING the cops means no cop is likely to show up to help them. Even Austin is taking over 30 minutes now to answer serious cries for help.
So, they richly deserve this. The “adults” that vote that is. I feel sorry for the children.
No wind, no TV.
DJT
We put in 20 battery systems a week at Sunpower
People are like. Screw this. I’ll have my own power. Thanks
Back in the 60s and 70s we were warning enviro-nuts that they’d end up freezing to death in the dark.
I guess the discomfort factor is just as great at 110ͦ as it is at -10ͦ
I’ve been saying for a long time that you can’t run modern civilization on wind, solar, and unicorn farts, and that trying to do so will lead to energy poverty.