San Onofre nuclear plant permanntly shut down

[DamnYankee]

Activists praise San Onofre closure, but 1,100 layoffs expected

What retards, celebrating less electricity going into the summer cooling season. Or, burn more coal.

 

[RockX]

San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies

The San Onofre nuclear plant had produced about 9% of California's power.

Southern California residents will have to get serious about energy conservation, particularly this summer, now that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been permanently shut down.

Without that nuclear plant, which accounted for about 9% of the electricity generated in California, power supplies will be tight in parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties for at least the next three summers, officials said. That means periods of reduced use of air conditioners, lights and swimming pool pumps for customers of Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.



http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0608-california-power-supply-20130608,0,256459.story


Hurray, here comes the blackouts and high electricity bills.

 

[DamnYankee]

LOL Liberals don't think. You know how hot LA gets in the summer? It's going to be like Paris, France in the summer with crews taking bodies of old folks from upstairs flats. Maybe some "riots, and break up some shit."

 

[maineman]

LOL Liberals don't think. You know how hot LA gets in the summer? It's going to be like Paris, France in the summer with crews taking bodies of old folks from upstairs flats. Maybe some "riots, and break up some shit."

and, if that doesn't happen, I assume you'll be back here admitting yet another of your foolish predictions was nothing more than the babblings of a gadfly? Probably not.

 

[cancel2 2022]

I am sure that all the treehuggers in California can survive without air-con and showers.

 

[tekkychick]

San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies

The San Onofre nuclear plant had produced about 9% of California's power.

Southern California residents will have to get serious about energy conservation, particularly this summer, now that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been permanently shut down.

Without that nuclear plant, which accounted for about 9% of the electricity generated in California, power supplies will be tight in parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties for at least the next three summers, officials said. That means periods of reduced use of air conditioners, lights and swimming pool pumps for customers of Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.



http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0608-california-power-supply-20130608,0,256459.story


Hurray, here comes the blackouts and high electricity bills.

Um - it's been shut down since Jan, 2012. We made it through last summer without it.

 

[tekkychick]

By the way - on a per capita basis, California's electricity use is the lowest in the nation. We'll get by, don't worry about us. But I'll miss the "glow in the dark" feeling one gets when exposed to radiation from a failing nuclear plant.

http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/us_per_capita_electricity-2010.htmlhttp://

http://www.energy.ca.gov/2009publications/CEC-200-2009-015/CEC-200-2009-015.PDF

http://www.rmi.org/RFGraph-total_per_capita_eletricity_use

 

[maineman]

Um - it's been shut down since Jan, 2012. We made it through last summer without it.

were lots of bodies of old folks taken from upstairs apartments last summer? I don't recall hearing about it on the news.

 

[tekkychick]

were lots of bodies of old folks taken from upstairs apartments last summer? I don't recall hearing about it on the news.

Only when the buses picked them up to take them to the casinos..but they were alive at the time.

Can't remember any heat emergency last summer. Don't remember any rolling blackouts, either.

 

[cancel2 2022]

Um - it's been shut down since Jan, 2012. We made it through last summer without it.

It has only been possible by bringing some retired gas power plants back into service and importing electricity. Long term is a different story, maybe as there are so many treehuggers that live in California they will be confronted with the consequences of their short sightedness.

 

[tekkychick]

I DO hope you saw my post that in California we use the lowest amount of electricity per capita than anyone in the US? Too bad everyone doesn't do that, then you could send us some of YOUR power.

 

[maineman]

Fyi... i make nearly all my own power with my bank of solar panels on my roof! I don't care how hot it gets, nobody's gonna be carting this old old fella out on a gurney!

 

[tekkychick]

Fyi... i make nearly all my own power with my bank of solar panels on my roof! I don't care how hot it gets, nobody's gonna be carting this old old fella out on a gurney!

Yea for you! we're off grid, but at times need to supplement our solar with the propane generator. Like today, it's a hot one, so started the swamp cooler at 6:15...need to run the genny because the batteries are low after giving us power all night...

At any rate, I think California can handle the continuing shutdown of this reactor.

 

[maineman]

My solar panels feed the grid when I make more than I use... I don't have batteries, but then, technically, I still am ON the grid, I guess.

 

[cancel2 2022]

I DO hope you saw my post that in California we use the lowest amount of electricity per capita than anyone in the US? Too bad everyone doesn't do that, then you could send us some of YOUR power.

California consumed 289,120,614 Mwh and produced 200,804,842 Mwh in 2011, resulting in a shortfall of 88,315,771. That is the highest in any state in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States

 

[Topspin]

It has only been possible by bringing some retired gas power plants back into service and importing electricity. Long term is a different story, maybe as there are so many treehuggers that live in California they will be confronted with the consequences of their short sightedness.

Or maybe unlike unwashed uk they will continue to lead on green!

 

[tekkychick]

My solar panels feed the grid when I make more than I use... I don't have batteries, but then, technically, I still am ON the grid, I guess.

Being on the grid has advantages. And on dark, cloudy wintry snowy days...there are times I wish I was on the grid! was not an option due to $$ for us.

 

[DamnYankee]

and, if that doesn't happen, I assume you'll be back here admitting yet another of your foolish predictions was nothing more than the babblings of a gadfly? Probably not.

I'm sure you go back to every prediction that you made and hasn't come true...

 

[Topspin]

Another ignorant neocon shut down!

 

[DamnYankee]

Jan. 17

After weeks of warnings, rolling blackouts became a reality for California residents today when regulators ordered utility companies to turn off the power to thousands of people in parts of the state.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94355&page=1#.UbNUZZz-u_4

March 19

For the first time since January, rolling blackouts were ordered in California today, turning out the lights in approximately 500,000 homes, including some in Beverly Hills.

Officials at California's Independent System Operator (ISO), which monitors the state's power grid, called a Stage Three alert at midday because of increased temperatures, a higher power demand and a lack of electricity from the Northwest.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93795&page=1#.UbNTt5z-u_4