I want a lot of things I’m not going to get.
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!
If they can harness the thermal energy of whatever the hell they’re smokin’, maybe they can pull it off; otherwise, they’re looking at a pipe-dream (or maybe I should say a bong-dream).
But I’d love to see them try - it will provide great amusement for the rest of the country, and free up a fair bit of fossil fuels I’ll be happy to use at the correspondingly lower price.
She prefers Environmentalism over jobs, quality of life andgeneral economic sanity.
I',m voting Jerry Bro9wn to hasten the demise.
Whitman is NOT the Alternative.
One third of nothing is easy to attain.
Those Commies have it all wrong. The Central Committee is supposed to issue Five Year Plans, not Ten Year Plans.
Get with the program, comrades...
We have biomass plants in N. CA foundering. Pelosi has some luny on staff that refuses to recognize biomass sourced from fuel thinning on National Forests as renewable energy. Price subsidies go to solar and wind, but not biomass. Biomass is considered the same as natural gas. Region 5 (CA) National Forest is paralyzed by a handful of environmental groups who appeal. Most don’t live in the area or even the state.
Forest biomass is building at a compounded rate. For instance, in 2009 on the Shasta Trinity National Forest, only 12.07 MMBF (million board ft.) was sold. It had a net growth of 459.7 MMBF and an annual mortality of 99.4 MMBF. After twenty years of little harvest, these forests are a fire trap. Forests are supposed to have a maximum of 50 tons per acre of biomass fuels. Conditions are now from 150-250 tons. This is why 250,000 acres were burned in Siskiyou Co. in 2008 and 260,000 acres in Trinity Co. Successive fires reburned in areas were no salvage was done is sterilizing (nuking) the soil and converting landscapes to brush.
The Regional Forester has stated that we need to step up the pace and scale of fuels treatment in CA. The utilization of biomass for energy production provides a market for small diameter material that partially offsets the costs of the treatment.
Biomass is a win/win. These fires are emitting carbon and other pollutants that dwarf vehicle emissions by comparison. Using biomass for energy under controlled conditions with scrubbers reduces emissions and makes use of the fuel in a manner beneficial to communities.
I love California, but most people living here are either nuts, illegal, or both.
It’s doable. They can just keep closing power plants until solar and wind represent a third of what’s left. About enough to light up downtown Lodi a couple of hours each night.
Maybe they should build railroads?
Is that the 1/3 of power they vampire from their neighbors?