Posted on 09/23/2010 6:12:02 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco (AP) The state with some of the nation's most ambitious clean energy standards went even further Thursday: Regulators approved new regulations requiring utilities to draw a third of their power from alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal in 10 years.
California already is pushing utilities to reach a 20-percent-renewable standard by next year, which has been a struggle to accomplish. Toughening the rules could prompt regulators across the country to do the same, but some consumers fret that they will end up paying for the changes in the form of higher utility bills.
. . .At a time when nearly one-eighth of the state's work force is jobless, some want California to dial back, not bolster, its leading-edge air pollution rules.
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It sounds good on paper, but it’s probably unfeasible.
“California wants rolling blackouts by 2020.”
Is it any wonder we see requests from SoCalEdison for rate increases on a virtual monthly basis.
Sounds like an oxymoron ... you can’t renew energy. Physics says you can’t. Once you transform energy, i.e. give up heat when it’s transformed, you can’t get it back. Burn coal to produce electricity, you can’t use its remains for energy ... unless I’m totally missing something here ....
"Some" consumers "fret"? Fret?
People wonder where the Tea Party anger comes from.
They can do it, by means of forced blackouts. I wonder if they will.
Generator sales will skyrocket. Well, if generators aren’t made illegal.
If they are, I would expect a boom in conversion accessories to let you power your house using your car/truck electrical system.
Why is "unfeasible" relevant? California has passed hundreds of unfeasible mandates over the past three decades. Other than driving business and private jobs out of the state, producing absurd housing prices followed by the bottom falling out of the market and runaway unemployment, and producing a massive deficit that they cannot fix, what harm has it done so far?
The only way that will happen is to reduce available power the point that renewable power then equals 1/3 of the total.
Otherwise, ain’t gonna happen.
Oh yeah.
How is California’s boycott of Arizona electric power coming along?
Maybe that’s where they got the idea.
Rumors are Burt Rutan Retiring and moving to Idaho or something, bye bye Mojave...
good luck with that!
they could cover every square inch on the state with solar panels and they couldn't generate 1/3 of their power.
Well, when the sun evaporates the water it goes back up and falls down as rain or snow. Then it gets captured and operates a bunch of huge turbines.....Oh wait...
You can’t have hydroelectric power, somehow it’s not “green”
I want a pony.
Well then, issue a decree. If they can dream it, I’m sure a decree will make it so, without having to worry about little things like reality or economic viability getting in the way.
LOL, good for California!
Heheheheh..
(Will the last civilized human being leaving California please turn out the light?)
Why not 100%? bicycles and walking are healthy. No matter that 95% of your taxpayers will not be able to make it to work...Count on us, the solvent state to bail your asses out...//not! ESAD california.
No probably about it..if they used 100% of your tax dollars, the best they could do is to increase their contribution by 3%...
King Canute redux
I think this might be a good project for the Tea Party after the upcoming elections.
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