Posted on 08/19/2020 7:23:53 PM PDT by karpov
Millions of Californians have lost power in recent days amid a brutal heat wave, and state regulators warn of more outages in the days and perhaps years to come. Welcome to California’s green new normal, a harbinger of a fossil-free world.
“These blackouts, which occurred without prior warning or enough time for preparation, are unacceptable and unbefitting of the nation’s largest and most innovative state,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Monday while ordering regulators to pull out all stops to keep power on. “This cannot stand.”
Mr. Newsom is demanding an investigation, though he can start with his party’s obsessions over climate and eliminating fossil fuels. Even former Gov. Gray Davis admitted the culprit is the state’s anti-fossil fuel policies. “The bottom line is, people don’t want lights to go down,” he told Politico. “People also want a carbon-free future. Sometimes those two aspirations come into conflict.” They certainly do.
California’s Independent System Operator (Caiso) has been warning for years that the state’s increasing dependence on intermittent renewables, especially solar, is making it harder to ensure reliable power. Renewables currently make up about 36% of California’s electric generation, and Democrats have set a 60% mandate for 2030 and 100% for 2045.
Caiso in part blamed cloud cover, weak winds and failures at a couple of power plants for this weekend’s power outages. But this happens when you rush to shut down power plants to meet government diktats and reduce the amount of reliable baseload power. Unlike fossil-fuel plants, solar and wind can’t ramp up quickly when other power generators go down. Solar power also plunges in the evening, and the state didn’t have enough backup power to compensate to meet high demand.
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“Caiso in part blamed cloud cover, weak winds...” That is what you get with so-called green power. It is just not reliable due to natural events. If the sun isn’t shining, you have no solar power. If the wind isn’t blowing, you have no wind power. When you have a substantial portion of your power sources that are unreliable just due to mother nature, you are going to have times you do not have enough power. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
ooooh. So sorry.
Whatever rocket scientists are still left in California are keeping a low profile these days.
I think a little wrong. 95% of Dems can’t figure this out.
One's an aspiration, the other is civilization.
Yeah, they are now turning Aerojet’s rocket motor testing area into a big park and housing development. 50 years ago, those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end...
Remember the Soviets always blamed the weather for bad grain harvests.
“...power shortages are inevitable...”
Terrific!
A whole new ‘batch’ of California Socialists whelped in 9 months hence. :(
The recently released prison inmates are now running the California Asylum!!!
Well...if you have to ask...you’ll never know! LOL!
I keep hoping they end up having days-long power outages, even weeks. Everyone but the Cher-level kooks will be ready to put some adults in charge.
Mussolini won by promising to make the trains run on time. A conservative could someday win in CA by promising to keep the A/C running.
Thank you for always creating an archived copy of the article so those of us without subscriptions can read it!
Santa Susanna?
I hope they have a yabba dabba doo time.
Fifty years ago many of the “Back-to-nature” magazines opposed nukes, coal and hydro. They came up with quite a few hare brained schemes to replace them with “natural renewable sources.” They sounded so good on paper one magazine paid $10,000 out of it’s own account to build a small updated version of a “perpetual motion” machine. It didn’t work.
Now they just tell you what you “need to do” but will not put up the cash to prove it.
I don’t think so, it’s just an old tune from the olden days like from before we went to the moon. You know... when CA was still somewhat “golden”
Now they just tell you what you “need to do” but will not put up the cash to prove it.
I lived in Hendersonville NC for a while in the late 1970s. At that time, a magazine called Mother Earth News was published in Hendersonville. They rented a building in the downtown area, not on the main street, but one street off the main street I think.
The parking lot behind their building was fenced off, but inside there were all kinds of weird looking machines with large wheels, bicycle chains, flaps and prop blades and various geometries of wind turbines and water turbines. I think they had erected a Darrieus type turbine, but I never saw it turning.
It all looked like the product of a brief burst of constructive activity that had taken place a few years before I got there, and had stopped soon after. I never saw anyone there, in the rear lot or otherwise, and I never saw any of the contraptions moving.
This would have been in 1978 or 1979.
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