Posted on 09/07/2022 7:02:13 AM PDT by servo1969
Southern California is a desert. Recent mild temperatures are actually anomaly.
Heat and desertification are the historic climate normal
Flatten the curve. THEY get the lights, a/c, heat in the winter and you get nothing!
EU will propose a “mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours” in order to “flatten the curve.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1567462388898594816
California is one event away from the point of no return. A week without power, a major earthquake in LA/SF would be the end of this state. It’s so corrupt it’s barely functioning now. 35 years of progressive control has made things worse exponentially, this should be a progressive utopia! But it faces 19th century living and along with it all the misery, disease and death the democrat progressives and green party gang didn’t tell you about!
California is looking into an abyss and their progressive self-proclaimed brightest and best say sure lets turn those gas powered plants off, skittles and unicorn farts will power us through this crisis and the cry of the peasants be damned after all they are only people!
California enjoy, you voted for this many-many times!
The article neglected to mention the temporary generators are located at the homes of Gavin Newsome, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, and Maxine Waters. The serfs can sit quietly in the dark.
these generators start up every morning several times a day to handle peak loads, people start factories so the load need goes up, then people wake up and the need for coffee machines goes up, then the factories and offices open at 8AM so that need goes up each time, and these types of generators start and run until the main generators generate enough steam to run the main power generation.
this is a non story other than they are using them longer than peak power usage hours
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Back in college, some politician came to lecture at one of my classes. He kept rambling on about how great California was for making the switch to renewable energy sources. I predicted blackouts worse than they’d ever seen before, and he actually mocked me for thinking that renewable energy could possibly result in blackouts. “Nobody’s turning off the sun, hahaha!”
I hope that jack-hole sits in a dark office with no AC, and an unchargeable electric vehicle outside, and thinks about that day in class.
Or like me last night with my ventilator shut down and the still air too dark for solar. Cal is sitting on massive natural gas shale in the south and even Newsome wants to mine it (by fracking so they will not). But Musk is right, we can and will suffer for switching off of fossil fuel before we get the clean nuclear plants and desalination plants up and running.
But, but...Gas generators are illegal in CA.
I’d like to see CA residents ramp up their energy use to massive levels, if only to deny the pashas their unlimited use while we suffer. Shut it down.
“Didn’t they just outlaw gas generators?”
Can’t buy a NEW gas-powered tool in CA after 1/1/2024 is the commandment, IIRC.
CAN operate any that you already have. For the time being.
Waiting for The Execrables in Sac to legislate “no repair parts” for gas-powered anything — lawn mowers, chain saws, cars, trucks, buses...
It’s kinda “the other shoe” that hasn’t dropped. Yet.
“How’s the electric grid doing in California? It’s high noon, and renewables are only producing 32.4% of the state’s electricity needs.”
Yeah, and when the Sun goes down that’ll drop more than 20% with “slack” having to be taken up by Big Hydro, which will go from a 2% to a 10% provider, and Gas Generation, which will go from a 42% to a 55% provider.
Check the current numbers here:
http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
[He-heh. “Current”]
IOW, when it gets dark (or cloudy/rainy) “renewables” don’t (and can’t) cut the mustard; it takes trusty tech with variable production capability (gas, hydro) to fill the void.
And it always will, unless libtards can be knocked off the Stupid Bubble and admit that nuke plants are — on the whole — cleaner and greener than anything they’ve got on-tap.
Question for you Arizonans—I know 116 is a normal summer temp for you. How do you keep your chickens alive? I’m in the SF Bay Area and I unfortunately lost a chicken yesterday. It was the hottest recorded temperature EVER in my town (yes 116). Are Arizona chickens just “tough birds” and more used to it?
I bought a “chicken mister” to get ready for the next wave of 116 on Thurs to hopefully save the rest of my flock.
I know I’m not in AZ, but I do have chickens. And in my climate, hot weather is usually accompanied by high humidity. When there’s a heat wave, I set blocks of frozen squash in their treats dish. I grow more squash than I can eat, so that works out. Sometimes when I don’t have squash, I’ll pick edible weeds, pack them in a container with water, and freeze those.
One year my pantry had a bad bug infestation, and I cooked up anything chicken-safe that the bugs had gotten into, added some freezer-burned fruits and veggies, and froze it in pint-sized portions for the chickens. They go crazy over cooked black beans.
In the winter, I’ll thaw those same treats and warm them up in the microwave. They seem to appreciate it.
I like burning wood to heat my house. It is the only fuel that heats you twice. First when you cut it, second when you burn it.
Thank you! I have heat but no humidity. I set up a mister and my friend with chickens in the Central Valley (used to heat) told me on 100+ days she just floods the area so they can walk around in mud/water.
I will toss them some frozen peas today! Thank you! I love the idea of blocks of frozen stuff. Makes sense.
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