Posted on 09/23/2010 6:12:02 PM PDT by SmithL
I think one third of power use in the stone age was renewable. That’s your answer!
“If they are, I would expect a boom in conversion accessories to let you power your house using your car/truck electrical system.”
You know, the only thing a hybrid is good for in my opinion is a mobile generator/battery bank.
A 25kW battery bank, motor/generator attached to a sufficiently sized split phase inverter would power an entire house, air conditioning and all.
You can drive it wherever you need power.
Doing their best to make living in California totally impossible for anyone who actually has to work for a living.
It cannot be done unless all energy use is drastically reduced. At their full potential wind and sun will only achieve 15% and that’s with a windmill or a solar panel on every inch of available land. If the enviro-dipsticks think it’s possible, they’re on a fool’s errand!
THE GOVERNED DO NOT CONSENT!
Kooks!
Even if funding for the (certain to be subsidized as it cannot stand on it’s own merit) “Renewable” energy were available, even if the tech actually worked as promised (it won’t) there is no way the NIMBY’s and Eco-Nut’s will ever let that number of facilities be built.
So far as I know, the Fed. “moratorium” on right of way for new transmission lines is still in effect.
As I recall, efforts to force companies to DISMANTLE existing wind farms are still ongoing.
For the birds!
If these plants could stand on their own without massive subsidies Kali. would not need to mandate them, investors would already be fighting the NIMBY’s and Eco-Nut’s to get the permits for them.
My San Diego Gas & Electric bill comes with a breakdown of our current sources of energy. Wind and solar provides about 2% or 3% at the most. How are we going to get 30%?
I want a lot of things I’m not going to get.
Shut off all power coming from Arizona
and all power coming from coal or gas plants
and all power coming from hydroelectric.
Let’s see if California can get by on what’s left.
DAMN, Tom, I lost the schematics for turning a cars' alternator into 110 Volts.
I think we're gonna need those tips ................... FRegards
Every homeowner will be required to put one of those hideous windmills on the roof. Count on it.
Well, I spoke too loosely.
What I was thinking of was those kits for mounting two, three, four alternators in your engine compartment, all powered by one big serpentine belt. The car-stereo aficionados do it.
I shouldn’t have said “electrical system.” I should have said “engine.”
This is the state that legislated that 20% of all new vehicles in the state were to be emission-free by 2002.
Mandating unicorns is not the same as creating them.
Need to add, this is the state that is DISMANTLING several existing hydro-electric dams.
One of the very few “Renewable” schemes that actually works.
And I want to lose 40 pounds on the Krispy Kreme Diet. Thanks SmithL.
Californians better get used to sweltering or shivering in their darkened homes and offices, provided they still have jobs.
What energy is renewable?
They’ll be lucky to have ANY power in 2020, renewable or otherwise. Maybe they’ll get a “free” low emission stove courtesy of Queen Hillary to light their hovels.
Of a plan by dsomeone I know of works out he will be building enough solar panels in the desdrt to supply all of Los Angeles County.
As far as work here he ran into a stone wall as far as building the panels and in now in New Zeland negotiating to set up a manufactueing facility to make the panels.
There is so much steel that a friend that will be fabricating it by lowering the brokerage fee from 1% to 1/2% will make over 1 nillion not counting profit on the job!
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