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.
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.
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.
I think this might be a good project for the Tea Party after the upcoming elections.
I think one third of power use in the stone age was renewable. That’s your answer!
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.