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Posted on 01/15/2022 8:33:17 AM PST by ransomnote
The California Public Utilities Commission is poised to kill off much of the rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in California, which will result in the use of more polluting natural gas and biomass electricity as well as dirty electricity imported from out of state. The use of the new dirty electricity will raise air pollution death rates in California above the 12,000 per year who perish in the state already. Most of these additional deaths will be in poor communities in the Los Angeles basin and Central Valley, where pollution levels are already the highest in the state.
Roof PV should be encouraged to reduce natural gas and overhead wires
The effort to end rooftop solar is through an esoteric rule called Net Metering 3.0. This rule, pushed by the utilities, supported by only a few groups — and opposed by the vast majority of environmental groups — appears to be a back-door effort to get middle- and working-class homeowners to pay the damage costs of explosions, blowouts and fire damage caused by the utilities themselves. These incidents include, among others,
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They were “following the science” when they put them up, now they’re “following the science” to take them down.
Such idiots.
With apologies to Francis Bacon.....
What is science? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer
Let's see burning natural gas emits a little CO2 and mostly water vapor. Neither is a pollutant.
How is dirty energy (electricity) imported from out-of-state going to increase pollution in Californication?
why not just TAX them, and not let
them be used?
everyone having one will be “VAXED”,
and the chip will measure the electric use of the house
instead. That will be TAXED, too.
the moving chip, will be TAXED.
Lots of money for the CA mayors and gov
to burn down more houses and trees.
Can’t drill. Can’t frack. Shutting down the last nuke, Diablo Canyon. No new natural gas hookups in homes. Kiling rooftop solar. Highest state gasoline tax in the country. New homes require EV chargers. “Title 24” Energy Standards are the most extreme in the country make house prices unaffordable for anybody.
CA has, by far, the most insane “energy policy” in the entire world. To think that California led the world in can-do attitude and accomplishments from 1849 to about 1990 or 2000.
That breathlessly panicking idiotic opening paragraph reminded me why I rarely click on any link to The Hill.
Carmel was pretty okay. In the early 50’s.
They are not killing off anything... they are planning on reducing a subsidy that costs rate payers a fortune with almost no benefit.
No electricity for Kali! Seriously, they have been outlawing one electrical source after another.
The State government no longer serves the people. Seems our founding fathers had words of wisdom about that.
“Let’s see burning natural gas emits a little CO2 and mostly water vapor. Neither is a pollutant.”
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Hmmm.. plant food and bio-friendly universal natural solvent. What’s not to like.
This editorial is incoherent. First, my understanding is that rooftop solar is required for all new residential construction here in CA. Does whatever he’s talking about repeal that? Don’t know because he doesn’t say. Second, if I understand his point, focusing on one part of it: the PGE infrastructure in remote areas can cause fires when lines fall during wind occurrences. Having rooftop solar will prevent that because energy is being produced on site.
I THINK that’s what he’s saying, but it’s idiotic. What about nighttime? A couple years ago, in late summer, we had widespread thunderstorms from typhoon remnants that streamed over the state, as sometimes happens that time of year. Solar wasn’t working because of the cloud cover and smoke from lighting strike fires. How would rooftop solar have helped? As I said, incoherent
JP Sears calls it…….
What It’s Like Living in California Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeCaYaG-ZRM
No, it isn’t.
Especially when the author is an environmentalist cool aid drinker.
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I worked retail in a California Mall. One of the box stores generated enough solar power to cover its own needs and had some left over to sell to other merchants.
I think it is actually “follow the séance.”
Bwahahahaha!!!
That natural gas is going to kill us all!
That’s odd, it’s natural, from the earth and of the earth.
Solar panels don’t exist in nature and have nasty stuff inside them. Bad panels, bad.
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