Posted on 09/29/2017 7:15:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
This should not be a problem for the rest of us. At the rate they are going, the liberals who rule CA will have declared it to be a separate country by then.
We also need electricity for desalination, because there is only so much water underground.
All I know is that the overall sulfur dioxide emissions nationwide are extremely small compared to 20, 30, or 40 years ago. There were two big reasons for sulfur dioxide, the diesel fuel used at the time and burning coal. Coal can be scrubbed, and not all forms of coal are heavy on sulfir. Anthracite is a rare type of coal now, but it has very little if any sulfur in it.
“We also need electricity for desalination, because there is only so much water underground.”
Exactly! Nuclear power is really the only long-term answer to our energy needs, unless there are “breakthroughs” in technology that based on today’s understanding of physics, are not likely to occur. Unfortunately we have left our nuclear power plants in the hands of the morons who “manage” our public utilities and the government, so we will never see nuclear come back until there is no other alternative (save becoming North Korea).
My father’s family was among the poor people to move
from the Midwest to California during The Depression.
Those folks helped to develop the state’s oil and
agriculture. Very many of them stayed and built this
state into an economic juggernaut. Mentioning them in
the same passage as those quick wealth seekers who
came and went in the 1850s or the Hollywood fame
seekers of the early 20th Century is neither accurate
nor humorous and I am one who enjoys a good chuckle
here at FR.
What you missed in your California history summary
was the 1960s and 70s migration of ‘Flower Children’
who came from all over the nation including from
wherever it was you called home at the time assuming
you were alive then. California may have always had
a free spirit nature but it was also a reliably
Republican state, at least until some of those flower
children hippies discovered how they could make
the hated ‘system’ work in their favor.
No...it isn’t California. There is always some SINGLE NUTCASE legislator that is “going to introduce a bill.” The problem is the news media picking a trivial piece of crap like this and making a national headline out if it. Similar is every word coming out of Maxine Waters’ mouth. Whatever she says is national news. That’s why we are ignoring the “news” today...and that includes Drudge!
By 2040 people will be surfing off the coast of Arizona.
The leftists don't want you living there. They want to force you to move into mega cities so they can control everything you do and say. This is part of their plan to take full control of everyone.
My Dad used to say all the crazy people wander out west and stopped when they got to the ocean, then they just stayed and milled around.
Maybe they should call them “Assault Vehicles”
They never want to win another election again (legally).
Liberals and illegals will be the only ones left CA by then.
“Liberals and illegals will be the only ones left CA by then.”
Yes, and CA will have a burro $hit problem on the freeways. They will use “electric $hit Wagons” to sweep up. It will be just like a continual Cinco de Mayo Parade! Glad I will most likely not be here to see it.
“What you missed in your California history summary
was the 1960s and 70s migration of ‘Flower Children’
who came from all over the nation including from
wherever it was you called home at the time assuming
you were alive then. “
I was born in San Francisco in 1940, and I have lived here in the SF Bay Area for all of my now 77 years. The “flower children” were not the problem that Gays, Blacks and Mexicans have become though. And the liberals that are here, mostly came from elsewhere, including the ones who dominate the Silicon Valley, where I worked for 25 years. By and large, SV “high-tech companies” are run by Jews who have come here from the East Coast tech universities and business schools, and a few Indians and Pakis.
fat chance of that. What I’m wondering is what they intend to do with a bunch of us vets who are very proud to be US citizens if they decide to become their own country.
I will never give up my constitution, my citizenship, my guns, or my property and I have no intention of moving.
vette, my FRiend, I’m not quite as old as you but I
have resided in rural NorCal long enough to have seen
the communes sprout here in the Motherlode when I was
a young adult at that time. Later, some of these Flower
Children either reverted to main stream or became
embedded in universities. I know this to be a fact
because later in life I went back to school and met
former flower children hippies who became libtard
professors and I didn’t go back to just one college.
But, yes, and you already know that I agree with you
that the liberal problems which we have came to us
from other places.
The Boring Company may yet have contracts with no direct connection with transportation. The tunnels would be needed to safely implement an energy buffering system.
Pumped hydro stores excess electric as gravitational potential, pumping water to higher elevation, which is later used to drive a generator. In an analogous approach, there is a way to store power based on a reversible and efficient electric to kinetic system. There’s potentially a little issue to deal with though—loss of control could prompt an event with consequences little different than explosives detonating. Therefore, installation deep within the earth is perhaps the best option.
The process relies upon electromagnetic drive devices interacting with a steel ribbon to add or subtract kinetic energy, and magnetic support and guidance providing the directional control to achieve a closed loop of travel. The loop velocity is measured in miles per second within an evacuated passageway.
The largest advantage over flywheel storage is that materials strength is much less a limiting factor in achieving the high velocity needed for kinetic storage. If configured as a long racetrack oval, a substantial uniform magnetic field at each end can encourage the ribbon to gently turn a 180 and travel back to it’s starting point. A much less potent magnetic effort suspends the ribbon against gravity, in it’s travel between the two turnaround end stations. This doesn’t require breakthrough science to implement, merely applied engineering to achieve usable scale.
This is known as a Power-Loop, based upon the energy storage capability exploited to operate a Launch Loop.
http://slides.launchloop.com//launchloop.pdf
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