Posted on 07/28/2021 1:42:28 PM PDT by DFG
Of all of the endless follies of California these days—I know, it’s hard to enumerate all of them let alone put them in rank order—closing our last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon ranks perhaps at the top of the list. It provides more than 10 percent of California’s electricity, and can run 24/7, unlike wind and solar power. As one of the last nuclear power plants built and brought online in the 1980s, it easily has another 40 years of potential service left in it, if not more.
The perverse energy policy of California, which excludes nuclear along with any new dams from its legal definition and mandates for clean or “renewable” energy, virtually compelled the closure of Diablo Canyon, and the corporate socialists who run PG&E simply lied to the public that they can make up the shortfall with wind and solar power and magic batteries. In fact, they will make it electricity shortfalls in large part with natural gas and power imports from other states. It will likely cause California’s CO2 emissions (and utility rates) to rise, just as closing nukes in Germany has halted and perhaps reversed the greenhouse gas emissions decline in Germany, while doubling their electricity prices.
Even the very liberal Sacramento Bee has figured out that closing Diablo Canyon is a mistake. It editorialized earlier this week (and hat tip to our lefty friends at the Breakthrough Institute for breaking through to the Bee‘s editorial board):
The closure of Diablo Canyon and the driving forces behind the decommission project show that California’s ambitions are once again being humbled by the constraints of reality. The prospects of delivering on the promises of the 2016 agreement have sharply divided scientists, analysts and think tanks around the state.
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I remember when the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant opened in the 1980’s.
All the activists marching there with their “Quake and Bake” stupid signs, including actor Robert Blake.
They end or reduce their energy production but wind up buying it from other states. Makes sense.
I was told that it takes 3,000 watts of power to run one of those wind turbines; something about energizing something or other.
No problem. In the future when you buy an electric vehicle you will be required to purchase a wind turbine to power it.
Time to move out of Beverly, All of California that is.
And don't leave the lights on when you go. The RATS need it as long as they can.
The only sympathy a reasonable person can have for drought ridden, energy challenged California is for the farmers who are going bankrupt and a few other decent reasonable people. As for the rest of the state, a state that has hundreds of miles of coastline adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and with nuclear power can safely generate all the electricity and delalinate whatever water needed there is little sympathy. The majority of the people elect lunatics who never solve but only exacerbate problems with their crackpot policies.
America is suffering from political and cultural insanity.
Wait until we can no longer paper-over that insanity with massive debt and printed money.
California is nothing less than an open-air insane asylum.
“...but wind up buying it from other states.”
Wanna be an ecoterrorist? Cut every power line going into Cacalifornia.
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All synchronous induction generators take DC power for the field coils to be energized and generate electricity. Nuclear powered steam turbines take a 10s of megawatts or more just to energize the coils to make power. A 3 megawatt wind turbine will back feed in 3,000 watts of field coil energy for a energy multiplier of a thousand. The energy comes from the wind itself once started. It’s like using a 12v battery to start a car once running the engine itself powers the electronics. This is why power plants have to have black start generators to enter a blacked out grid. Google how close Texas came to months of black outs when 13 of 17 black start generators which would be needed to supply the field coils of the main generators were off line due to the cold. Nukes must have grid power to not only run but also run their cooling towers and decay heat pumps without which a shut down reactor will melt down just like fukashina which lost not only grid power but it’s triple redundant diesels were swamped as well. Coal and gas plants are no different they need grid power to synchronise too and energize their field coils if that is lacking then they must have a black start generator on site to bring up all the ancillary services needed to run the plant once started that plant can then be used via dedicated lines to sync and black start the next one down the line but without the initial.energy to energize the coils turbine driven generators are worthless they are FAR to large for perm magnet rotors they must have induction magnets it’s physics.
Wind turbines turn a thousand or more in energy multiplication factor in the synchro generators on par with gas turbines and.Nukes in that regard. A generator doesn’t care how your turn it at 1800 rpm just that it turns at the grid synchronous speed for a 4 pole in North America that’s 1800 rpm or 900 with an 8 pole.
I even remember the little chants and songs on the news. “Go Diablo, GO DIABLO.” And that idiot Jerry Brown who oversaw the worst fires and brown outs in California history.
Thanks for burying me in all that LOL - my thinking is: if it’s not windy enough, they don’t turn, if it’s too windy, they won’t turn to keep from damaging them.
dont forget to charge up your cars tonite
ooops, wait a sec...
California will just imitate third world countries like Nigeria.
When there is not enough power to go around, government buildings and officials are the top priority.
Wealthy corporations and individuals are second in line.
Everyone else is s&^% out of luck...intermittent power.
Rural people need to put in old time windmill water pumps for their wells.
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