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California Requires Solar Panels on All Homes and Windmills on All Farms
townhall.com ^ | 7/16/2017 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 07/16/2017 6:57:55 AM PDT by rktman

The California Senate Majority Leader Kevin de León has introduced a new bill that would mandate the Golden State get all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2045. This replaces a law that was passed in 2016 that dictated that renewable energy sources be 50% of all electricity produced by 2030. This bill moves that requirement up to 2025 with the 50% edict and establishes the new 100% standard 20 years later.

What has not been widely discussed in the press – and buried in the details of the bill – is that all new homes and all homes sold must have solar panels as their source of energy. All apartment buildings with more than four units must install solar panels by 2025, and all commercial and office buildings must do the same. As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; lordandmaster; overseers
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To: rktman

This may or may not save money on energy per household but it won’t be green. The windmills kill millions of birds per year and solar needs batteries to be efficient which take 8 years to become green neutral to offset the pollution they generate to make as do the solar panels themselves.

This is really nothing more than a feel-good leftist type law/bill. It’s not green and I bet when all the costs are added up and averaged over 20, 30, and 40 years; it would not even be cheaper.

About the only good thing to come from something like this might be the roofing lasting longer due to the solar panels protecting them from the sun. Big whoop.


41 posted on 07/16/2017 7:43:06 AM PDT by Boomer (Imagine a world without leftists. Now imagine a perfect world. Oops; repeating myself again...)
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To: rktman

This has GOT to be satire


42 posted on 07/16/2017 7:48:49 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: rktman

Great! More oil and gas for us.


43 posted on 07/16/2017 7:49:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Shhh...wait til they get to the part about requiring solar panels on the FR server!


44 posted on 07/16/2017 7:52:36 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: rktman

If you put solar panels on windmills, the wires will get hopelessly tangled.


45 posted on 07/16/2017 7:53:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: WildHighlander57

I was just thinking -

Can you imagine the collateral damage if an earthquake hits a whole subdivision or city? The grid goes down immediately, with no way of restoring it for months or even years, as one by one, the panel arrays are repaired and reconnected.

Solar power and wind power, except for some very small niche applications, are technological dead ends. To assure reliable power generation, all these systems have to be backed up, with with an unimaginable array of supercapacitors and/or battery storage systems, or with more direct substitution of natural-gas or other fossil fuel powered generation stations, plus as much development of hydroelectric generation as is both practical and possible.

Or they could come to depend on nuclear power generation, with its attendant storage and containment problems. THAT sends the greenie-weenies out into the street in screaming fits.


46 posted on 07/16/2017 7:54:02 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: bigbob

I thought it was already on wind power. ;-)


47 posted on 07/16/2017 7:55:01 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: ChocChipCookie

It’s really hard to satirize California.


48 posted on 07/16/2017 7:59:53 AM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: Noamie

Same here. I’d go solar but it is not affordable yet. And I refuse to put a lien on our no mortgage home.


49 posted on 07/16/2017 8:00:39 AM PDT by sheana
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To: ClearCase_guy

farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.

To a certain degree, this is the State telling farmers that 25% of their land now belongs to the state and will be used as the state dictates.


and food production will drop by 25%.

On windmill energy, see Australia story. Highly dependent on windmill energy. Heatwave hit. No wind. To avoid a blackout they cut off energy to 90,000 homes. Welcome to the progressive future.


50 posted on 07/16/2017 8:02:44 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: rktman
As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.

Birds?

Birds?

We don't need no stinkin' birds!

51 posted on 07/16/2017 8:04:13 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: rktman

Someday we will change, “Go to h___.” With, “Go to california.”


52 posted on 07/16/2017 8:04:19 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Solar power for high current applications is insanity.

Solar power works great in my calculator.

53 posted on 07/16/2017 8:09:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Yaelle

In California, truth is stranger than fiction.


54 posted on 07/16/2017 8:11:44 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: b4its2late
No wonder why a lot of people want out of CA. I got out in September 2016.

People ask me if I plan to return to CA when I retire. I tell them I don't know.

I grew up in a beautiful state. But its beauty is being systematically destroyed by those who would render it a socialist utopia.

55 posted on 07/16/2017 8:13:29 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: rktman

50% of all electricity renewable?
These people are out of their minds.


56 posted on 07/16/2017 8:14:55 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: rktman
This was reading like All California's Problem until this:

"As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills. "

Oh, the stupidity and the arrogance, it just burns...

57 posted on 07/16/2017 8:15:58 AM PDT by OKSooner (Never take a known wise-ass to the shooting range.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
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58 posted on 07/16/2017 8:17:16 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: lonevoice

ping


59 posted on 07/16/2017 8:19:45 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Yaelle

A joke unto themselves. Like Mrs. rktman says, “I love Carmel. Too bad it’s in cali.”


60 posted on 07/16/2017 8:20:56 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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