NEVER changes.
Posted on 08/20/2020 7:28:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's peak summer and hotter than the blazes up and down California. In some places it is the blazes.
And with the state's greenie mandates, instead of nice air conditioning like other people have, rolling blackouts have begun, same as you find in third world countries.
It's hot as hell, the Sahara has nothing on this California heat:
On Sunday, the mercury potentially hit 130F (54.4C) in California’s Death Valley National Park – a temperature that could become the hottest ever recorded on Earth.
And it's very bad in places where people actually live, too, such as in San Diego County:
Borrego Springs reached 115 degrees, while Campo broke a 70-year record with 108 degrees, surpassing the 105 degrees reached on Aug. 19, 1950, according to the weather service. Ramona also set a new Aug. 19 high at 100 degrees, breaking the previous high of 99 set in 2007. Other high temperatures around the county included 117 degrees in Ocotillo Wells; 101 in Valley Center, 100 in San Pasqual Valley; 99 in Alpine, 98 in Santee, 97 in Julian, 96 in Poway, 96 in Escondido, and 95 in El Cajon.
Which is why former Gov. Jerry Brown's command to the locals is so disgusting.
Hey California! We can avoid a blackout, but you have to turn up your damn thermostat! https://t.co/UuH8Yr6VFH— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) August 19, 2020
What a charmer.
Now, it's easy to think that Brown, in his dotage, out in some ranch in remote, sparsely populated Colusa County, or perhaps from his mansion in the tony Oakland Hills -- reports vary
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Ya turn them up and use even MORE electricity.
Its a safe bet to say that California’s idiotic green policies have contributed greatly to the yearly forest fires, and have given them electricity costs 3X elsewhere - but have also contributed 10X the amount of emissions compared to normal as well.
Keep voting Democrat.
[[[Hey California! We can avoid a blackout, but you have to turn up your damn thermostat! https://t.co/UuH8Yr6VFH—; Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) August 19, 2020]]]
So he can turn his down. Phony elitist
I thought all of those wind turbines and solar was supposed to fix this sort of problem. Gee, I wonder why.
Who writes Jerry Brown’s stuff? Jimmy Carter?
you can bet the wind farm he won’t be turning his up.
Bet Jerry has his AC cranked...
In an area of the country that is 80% desert, these morons are trying to keep us from using our AC’s for the 2 months a year when the weather is in the 90’s and triple digits. I wonder what Jerry’s electric bill looks like. . . . . .
Don’t think of it as “sweltering”, think of it as “differently cool”. I’d feel sorry for those poor state government bureaucrats in Sacramento sitting in pools of sweat if there were any.
So did I. If you think it is bad now, wait until the Democrats are in total control. They are in control now, but they still have a few corners to round off. The people will be as happy as a cow in clover. They should be happy now. They voted for everything they are getting.
I’m in CA; it was in the hundreds all week—I always keep my thermostat at 79 in the summer, not 78 as recommended by PG&E—because I’m frugal and don’t mind being a little warm.
I like summer. I don’t like rolling blackouts and wildfires, but that’s what I get for living in this tyrannical state.
Hopefully all of CA’s errors and flaws as a result of one party Dem rule will be noticed by the rest of the nation on Election Day. This is what Dems apparently want.
I’m happy to endure rolling blackouts if it helps show Americans the folly of Dems.
I miss some things about the 70s, but Carter and his foibles aren’t among them.
no ac in my old home,, it only gets miserable a few day a year..
Solar and wind as electric generation sources are both unreliable, and on a per-kilowatt mechanism for harnessing the potential of either, are exorbitantly expensive. The engineering costs, construction costs, and replacement/maintenance cost eat up all and more of the “savings” that are supposed to come from these “free” sources, and that does not take into consideration the environmental costs that the enviroweenies are so conscious of in any other application that involves major reforming of the local terrain. Windmills knock down and kill birds, and solar panels block sunlight from the normal flora that abounds in the areas where the solar farms take over. Not to add to the problem, but a further consideration is that the places where it is feasible to construct these wind and solar power generation centers is often (all right, ALWAYS) at great distance from where the power is to be consumed. This involves an even larger grid to be constructed.
Vast projects conceived and built with half-vast ideas.
I don’t have a thermostat.
Does that mean I’m exempt from blackouts?
EXCELLENT post.
Because wind and solar farms are far from energy sucking cities, they have to build powerlines out to them (expensive...and something Greenies NEVER want to account for) AND a certain percentage of the power generated will be lost when it is beamed down power lines a good distance away (another thing the Greenies never want to account for).
So by the time you factor in the construction costs, the maintenance and repair and replacement and disposal costs, the smart meters they demand people get by law, the added power lines and other infrastructure required, so called “renewable” energy doesn’t come remotely close to being competitive.
If carbon is their big concern, a nuclear power plant is reliable, emits no carbon, can be built closer to the users of its power and is vastly cheaper than wind or solar. And given our thorium salt reactor technology, its quite safe today.
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