Posted on 08/30/2020 7:28:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
We can expect power outages, because we don’t believe in releasing clean heat to make energy. Note that we do not mind people heating up in their 108-degree apartments without power. The planet is always more important than the non-privileged people who inhabit it.
For some reason, solar panels don’t create much power when the state is engulfed in dust, haze, and smoke.
Note the synergism of the California postmodern apocalypse: The hotter it gets, the more fires burn on ecological fuel and hillside natural “compost,” the smokier the air becomes, the less efficiently California’s solar pathway to the future generates, the more power outages ensue, the more real people are put in danger from either being incinerated by fire or suffocated by smoke or boiled inside without air conditioning.
Last week, I asked an elderly patient at the allergy clinic whether, in the 108-degree heat, he preferred to stay outside to breathe smoke and haze, or stay inside his uncooled apartment. He gave a novel answer: He didn’t care about the power outages since he couldn’t pay the exorbitant electricity charges anyway to turn on his air conditioner. And he added that, in California these days, you can’t tell whether mask wearers are fighting the virus, the smoke, or the police.
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A long article well worth reading
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H. L. Mencken
Well...maybe have wind turbines held aloft by roving giant dirigibles, stationed above current CA wildfires, pointing downward to catch the updrafts and transmitting power Tesla-style to ground stations.
(You heard it here by me first, folks.)
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The CDC tracks annual heat-related illnesses, hospitalizations, deaths. The numbers run from hundreds into the thousands depending on the category. Hardest hit are the elderly.
Where’s the CDC...?
They truly are idiots.
Talk about tilting at windmills.
The earth is 3/4 water. The land has vast areas of no or is sparsely inhabited. The atmosphere is many miles deep. There are strong global pattern cyclical and seasonal wind patterns as the earth rotates. The solar radiation from the sun has a big effect on weather. Volcanic eruptions spew tons of soot and ash into the atmosphere. Puny mankind’s pollution may effect localized areas but has little if any effect on nature’s powerful forces previously mentioned. No need for California to have power outages but the boundless stupidity of leftism creates its own painful asinine dystopia.
Priceless!
Remember when California was the Golden State--the envy and ambition of all the world?
Today it has sunk into the quagmire of decadence and reached Third World status.
Human excrement on the public sidewalks! Needles and syringes scattered in public parks!
My child went through 6th grade in the California public schools with dyslexia, undetected by the school system, whose agents insisted that she had been tested and no learning disability found. When her situation became too bad to be ignored, i.e. when her intelligence could no longer compensate for the dysfunction, I had her tested privately, away from the public schools. My suspicions were proven. I put her in an extremely expensive private school--outside California, in Middle America--designed to address learning disabilities. She bloomed.
My children came home from California public schools repeatedly with lice in their hair. I discussed this with teachers, school principals, and finally the director of the county education program. What she said astonished me. They ignore nits--call for treatment only if crawling lice are seen.
Remember when the California education system was the envy of the world?
Remember when California itself was?
"Liberalism" has turned the once-Golden State into a ridiculous cesspool. To do the same to all of America is the ambition of the leftists and the Democrat Party.
The brutal truth
The DemocraticNaziCommie DNC politicians (including Pelousy and her nephew governor Newsome, but many more!) have destoyed the once-great state of Californication
everyone who can get out is already doing so, (and yes the escapees need to leave behind any commieNazi leftist politics before coming to our state! There used to be big highway billboards saying “Welcome to Oregon. Please don’t Californicate our Oregon!”
the billboards, alas, did not work
I do not think they are idiots. I think they are corrupt.
Follow the money. Force the governed to pay for bullet train from and to no where? Who is making gobs here?
Force the governed to pay for windmills?
Force the governed to pay for solar?
Force the governed to pay for recycling?
I can go on and on but understand that some one in power has a stake in it somewhere, just ask Joe Biden and Hunter.
Solar power is expensive, inefficient, bulky and stores poorly. Its good for flashing school traffic lights, garden lighting and similar, but that’s about it. If you are on fire in the heat with no electricity in this era, you are probably doing it wrong.
Solar works great if you are off the grid thousands of people happily use solar for their day to day needs. My good friends have a rather large home on the Perdenalas river in Texas completely off the grid. Well water , septic system, solar hot water and solar evaporation coolers with a battery bank for nights and cloudy days. They have a propane back up genny and propane stove top but in sunny central Texas they run the genny once a month to keep it from seizing up.My home has a grid tied system that cost me zero dollars. The company is leasing roofspace from me in exchange for selling me all the power I can use ar half the commercial rate here in north Texas I pay 3.6 cents a kWh and keep my house at 68 degrees when it’s over a hundred out. I hate to sweat did a lifetime worth in crappy parts of the world no thanks anymore.
Curious if bank robberies are up due to COVID.
Gimme all your dough and hold the dye packs.
Don’t make me yank my mask and sneeze..
I live in N Nevada-—over 50 miles from the Calif border & we are smoked over for the 16th straight day.
Yes, solar for local off-grid, its an option. For grid and metropolitan use, not a real viable solution yet.
“My home has a grid tied system that cost me zero dollars. The company is leasing roofspace from me in exchange for selling me all the power I can use ar half the commercial rate here in north Texas I pay 3.6 cents a kWh and keep my house at 68 degrees when it’s over a hundred out.”
The equipment on your roof - did you pay for it or did the electric company ?
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