Posted on 09/08/2022 8:09:14 AM PDT by george76
California residents are still braced for rolling blackouts this week
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and puts a power grid made fragile by renewables in jeopardy of failure. Electric car owners now might not be able to drive the high-priced vehicles Democrats demanded they buy.
On Tuesday, state officials said California faces its greatest threat of blackouts this year, with power demand likely to eclipse 51,000 megawatts setting a new high.
“As people crank up their air conditioners, the state forecasted record levels of energy use, said Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state’s electrical grid,” the Associated Press reported. “The state has additional energy capacity at the moment ‘but blackouts, rolling, rotating outages are a possibility,’ Mainzer said, calling additional conservation ‘absolutely essential.'”
About 52 million people across the western U.S. were placed under a heat advisory Tuesday morning, according to Axios. Temperatures are expected to reach 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley and 115 degrees in the California capital of Sacramento.
The warnings Tuesday come after residents survived the continual heat wave over the holiday weekend when utility providers pled with electric car owners to refrain from charging their battery-powered vehicles.
“The top three conservation actions are to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles, and turn off unnecessary lights,” read an Aug. 30 heat bulletin from the California Independent System Operator, also known as Caiso.
State officials, including Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, have urged residents to conserve power.
“Californians should set their thermostat to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using major appliances and turn off unnecessary lights, unless it is unsafe for them to do so,” a Newsom press release read last week, careful to strip the state utility company’s language on electric vehicles out of the same recommendations from one day prior.
Newsom omitted the line on electric vehicles offered by state utility regulators last week for good reason. Just one week before the state’s latest heat wave put stress on an aging system increasingly dependent on unreliable renewables, the California Air Resources Board issued new regulations to ban gasoline-powered car sales by 2035. The announcement came with a celebration from Newsom, who called the restrictions “one of the most significant steps to the elimination of the tailpipe as we know it,” in an interview with the New York Times.
California’s power grid, however, already unable to withstand pre-existing conditions at times of high demand, is unprepared to power millions more electric vehicles on the road. The state will require 17 more gigawatts of added electricity to keep residents able to charge their electric cars, which, according to Kelly Blue Book in December, come at an average cost of more than $56,000 per vehicle. The nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, which is the state’s largest single source of electricity, only produces 2.3 gigawatts. Last week, the state legislature approved a five-year extension for the plant to continue operating until 2030.
Meanwhile, when people are denied air conditioning during extreme heat, the consequences can be fatal. Nearly 3,900 deaths were recorded from heat exposure between 2010 and 2019, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Despite the routine threats of blackouts faced by the nearly 40 million people in California, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm held up the state as a model for the country.
“California is in the lead, can show the rest of the nation how it is done,” Granholm told a local Fox affiliate in an interview published Saturday.
“Just like Joe Biden, California’s leaders are unplugged from reality,” Larry Behrens, the communications director for the energy non-profit Power the Future, told The Federalist. “Apparently, forcing struggling families to buy expensive electric vehicles and then telling them when they can charge them is the green utopia Gavin Newsom really wanted.”
The Biden administration, meanwhile, remains focused on shutting down the American oil and gas industry without the expansion of domestic mining operations to harvest the raw materials needed for electric car production. New oil and gas leases, according to the Wall Street Journal, have nearly come to a halt.
Libtards : Bend Over and say ah
Now claim you like it
Do it again
In their defense, they never promised that any power would be available to charge the EVs.
And also in their defense, I doubt they expected anyone to drive them, since their main purpose is to Virtue Signal.
So I don’t see a problem here...the people who bought them are still getting the use they need out of them (showing them to others).
I have yet to hear anyone in the media, criticize the contrast in California, about the overloaded power grid, paired with the recent decision that California will eventually ban the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles.
I just think the contrast is startling. Calif. eventually wants to compel everyone to have an electric car, but at the same time, the electric grid cannot support all those cars being re-charged.
Soviet joke:
A private asks his sergeant if he can watch TV. The sergeant says, “Sure, but don’t turn it on.”
In this time of continued electrical grid problems, do you know what California really needs? More
Illegal aliens
Electric cars
‘Green’ energy
Democrats
Wind mill blades have a ~20 year life span / not renewable, not recyclable ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3935543/posts
You just have to shake your head and laugh - trying to analyze the logic would not be healthy.
If you have some fuel to run a generator to charge your car, you can charge it all you want.
If we had some ham, we’d have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.
You know you’re a blueneck when:
Your new electric vehicle is parked on cinder blocks in your front yard.
With apologies and a hat tip to Jeff Foxworthy
In the mind of a California Democrat, it makes perfect sense.
Same with windmill towers. Imagine 100 million of them dotting the landscape, all with broken off blades, not generating anything. That’s exactly what you will see in 30 to 40 years.
Every one of them will have 100 TONS of buried concrete. That’s 10 billion TONS of buried concrete that will sit there for a million years before it decomposes. Producing concrete requires firing big kilns with fossil fuel to calcine limestone which puts out huge amounts of CO2. The calcining converts calcium carbonate (CaCO3) to calcium oxide (CaO) by driving off CO2 with heat.
Ah, you seem to be confused by what is going on out here in CaCaLand.
You must be white, and therefore racist.
Yah see, your mistake is rational thinking. That is racist (and white-ish).
Policies are enacted out here in CaCaLand SOLELY, solely to virtue signal. There is never any analysis (besides throwing a spitwad against a wall) of any proposal, nor any investigation on why it didn’t work out. This is a sorta watered down version of: “That wasn’t real communism, we can do better.”
Quit looking past the obvious reason(s): to launder money, to virtue signal, and to train people to take a knee for absolutely anything.
Some woke idiot on Tweater was claiming that the setup shown in this pic was MORE efficient than any gas or diesel car.
Obama installed massive 2,500 gallon commercial- grade propane / fossil fuel tank ( or 3 ? ) near his MV mansion at sea level .. to produce private electricity .
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4071260/posts
Idiotic beyond belief.
You didn’t hear? They want to turn wind turbine blades into gummy bears. You can have those for dessert after your big bowl of mealworm and cricket soup.
Bioplastic for wind turbine blades can be recycled into gummy bears
https://newatlas.com/environment/bioplastic-wind-turbine-blades-recycled-gummy-bears/
I have the answer!
They don’t want you to run AC in your house? Just get in your EV and run the AC to keep cool.
No problem.
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