Posted on 06/29/2021 4:30:29 AM PDT by cuz1961
Under the bill, Oregon aims to transition entirely to emissions-free electricity by 2040. The legislation lays out a timetable for the state’s two major power companies — Portland General Electric and Pacific Power — to reduce emissions. Additionally, it bans the expansion or new construction of power plants that burn fossil fuels and allocates $50 million in grants for community-based energy projects, among other measures.
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Like removing hydroelectric dams on the Columbia river ?
Cuz everyone knows all those dams were built solely to kill fish.
Morons. Hope they and California enjoy the return of seasonal flooding with all the death and damage flooding brings after they rip the dams out.
Along with rolling black outs. And suffocating of all plant and animal life after they reduce co2 'emissions' to zero.
This sounds like a setup for another Enron.
In Cali, they were so anti-energy that they frequently had to purchase energy from adjoining states at floating spot rates.
Since Oregon will never be able to have a totally green power system that can also handle surge needs (a cloudy spell, or a heat dome), they’re going to be at the mercy of the spot market. Somebody will take advantage of that situation... or if prevented by regulation, the state will suffer massive brownouts and blackouts from time to time.
What can you say. Stoopid is what stoopid does.
Ad why wait till 2040. We’ve only got 9 years left
20 years down the road that is enough time for those politicians to get their pensions and move to another state
Note to Oregonians: Check out NYS to see how this ends. And we haven’t even gotten there yet.
You can’t say you weren’t warned.
That sums it up pretty well. Do these A holes, really, actually believe the BS coming out of their mouth?
“100% Clean Energy” is like a perpetual motion machine. It violates the laws of thermodynamics and is nothing but political snake oil being sold to an ignorant public.
MAN! I’m happy I left Oregon in the early 80’s.
Rot away Oregon...
Oh and without nuclear or hydroelectric. That’s not going to work well.
Can you get electric power from peacefully burning buildings?
Why haven’t they ever tried to harness riotheramal energy?
as man removes all carbon from the atmosphere, and watches the plants begin to die, they will see the folly of their ways.
fortunately, man contributes very little to the .o4% of the carbon in the atmosphere, nature will continue to emit volcanic eruptions and the forests will continue to decompose and the carbon will rise and fall with the temperatures, like it has always done.
Unhook from the interstate grid NOW. There should be NO possibility of receiving electricity tainted by fossil fuel ever reaching an Oregon customer.
If all the Dems would stop driving cars and flying the problem would be over.
this should be fun.
Need to see how many of the people are invested in out of state energy producers, since they are going to have to purchase power to meet thier goals. Sounds like a lucrative money laundering scheme.
I think it should be mandated that all electric car charging stations be funded by renewable energy sources only.
In reality, using a charging station that is powered by fossil fuel, coal or nuclear energy so you can save the planet by driving an electric car is hypocritical.
Re: Reply to Pearls Before Swine
California depends on out of state hydropower everyday at sunset when solar power fades out from about 4 pm to 8 pm. But what happened during 2020 summer heat wave is that nearby states had no power to sell California because those states had shifted to solar power too and needed their excess natural gas power to handle the regional heat wave.
What will happen to Oregon is vulnerability to a grid collapse when there is a heat wave or cold snap because green power has only Direct Current, not Alternating Current -— no frequency to maintain the grid Alternating Current will result in collapse. Alternating Current is what makes refrigerators, stereos, computers and water pumping stations work.. Green power has no Frequency at all. So this is such colossal ignorance that one has to wonder if Democrats want perpetual grid crises to frighten or punish their constitutents who always blame droughts, heat waves and cold snaps on an act of god, when it is they who create them.
Reply to cuz 1961
Oregon will keep its hydro power but nuke power can not ramp up fast enough to back up in a heat wave, cold snap or drought. They just want to put natural gas out of business because it is Republican and they want to capture the energy industry for Democrat voters just as they have the public school system.
All of this insanity is predicated on the bogus “carbon bad” theory.
There was a report a couple weeks back showing the overall lifecycle carbon usage of “green” technologies was the same as for coal plants.
You cannot get to 100% green with wind and solar. The total installed battery systems today will power the grid for a FEW SECONDS.
There was a story yesterday about the big successes people are having stopping the monstrous wind farms. They are an evil visual blight on the world. We drive the Columbia River Gorge frequently and the magnificent scenic vistas are all ruined.
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