[Hojczyk]

There will be no desert left..just solar panels..fools all

[sagar]

Idiot solar worshippers.

[marktwain]

Why would it be worse than what happens with cloudy weather or when the sun goes down at night?

[mewzilla]

But then again, nobody knows what will happen.

Whoaaaakay.....

[hanamizu]

Don’t they have night in California?

[DakotaGator]

Picker said the CPUC could compensate with small power plants that burn natural gas. But unlike the solar facilities, the natural gas plants would emit greenhouses gases, so they’d rather not fire them up.

...so they'd rather not do their job.

[RightGeek]

Maybe they should sacrifice to the sun god

[loungitude]

62% of the sun that provides less than 4% of the power is going away for about 2 minutes.

What a bunch of crap.

[Gman]

Luckily, I still have my stash of Y2K water and beans to hold me over...

[Rebelbase]

“Picker said the CPUC could compensate with small power plants that burn natural gas. But unlike the solar facilities, the natural gas plants would emit greenhouses gases, so they’d rather not fire them up.”

Insanity.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Warned by people who do not know what a battery is or what a battery does.

Surely the solar infrastructure has sufficient battery assets in place to keep things going for the 20-40 minutes of the totality of the eclipse. I mean, WTH do these mental midgets think happens at night?

[CaptainAmiigaf]

This is a problem easily solved, if the nations of the world joined in the effort.
The many nations building and possessing nuclear weapons and long range missles could, in unison, send all their missles and nukes toward the MOON. Don’t forget, the MOON is the problem here. The unified and synchronized blasts would break the MOON into small pieces of space dust and thus the problem is solved. NO more dangers of that useless space body to interrupt Stupidfornia’s supply of “FREE” solar power.
Not only that, the lack of a MOON would eliminate the constant rising and falling of the ocean’s tides. No more coastal flooding.
If anyone thinks this is a good idea, seek help soon.

[ssaftler]

California’s sun will go dark Aug. 21.

Is Algore planning to fly over the state that day?

[dayglored]

What a load of cr@p. Night, storms, clouds, all reduce solar panels to zero or near-zero output. There's no reason to think a partial solar eclipse is anything but a minor hiccup, like a big storm-cloud passing overhead. The eclipse doesn't occur simultaneously everywhere in the state, and even if it did the effects would be negligible.

This is nothing but an excuse to talk nonsense.

This article is hogwash.

CLICK-BAIT.

[CharlesWayneCT]

This seems like fake news. What do they do at night? What do they do when it’s cloudy?

Sounds more like someone trying to get people to turn off stuff for no reason other than they have the power to issue stupid messages because they are the government.

[rockrr]

I think that they should all hold their breath - you never know what may happen...

[KarlInOhio]

They are so worried about the moon partially blocking the sun in August, but have the figured out how to handle the earth completely blocking the sunlight from hitting California for about ten hours starting around 8 pm today?

[d_snow]

What are they going to do when that probe comes back looking for Humpback Whales?.... they’ll be totally screwed then.

[Logical me]

This is so damn ignorant. You could shut down all the solar and wind crap and not notice a difference. Solar is a poor supply of energy and pollute the earth. And what powers us during cloudy days or night?

[ml/nj]

State energy officials are warning residents to click off all lights they don’t need and unplug all electrical appliances when 62 percent of the sun disappears over Los Angeles during a partial solar eclipse that is expected that day.

What a complete crock!

When the sun is 50% eclipsed, no one would notice if they weren't told it was happening, unless maybe he were a savvy photographer who understands f-stops and was outside taking pictures.

The amount of light energy from the sun is diminished much more by clouds than by a partial eclipse below 80%. My own memory is that one begins to notice around 90%, but even at 99% the sun is way too bright to look at directly.

ML/NJ