If You Like Blackouts, You’ll Love Joe Biden’s Green Energy Plans

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The WSJ is right on the money here, can't help noticing that not one person from California has responded to this thread even McSlobber and Cawacko
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Anti-fossil fuel mandates are leading to electricity shortages

Electricity blackouts are awful at any time, but especially during an extreme heat wave and for reasons that are man-made. That’s what millions in California have been enduring in recent days, and their plight is a warning to the rest of America about the risks of Green New Deal policies.

The California Independent System Operator (Caiso), which manages the state’s power grid, declared a high-level emergency Friday and Saturday evenings and ordered utilities to reduce power usage. California and most of the southwestern U.S. are experiencing a severe heat wave. But other states are managing to keep power flowing. Why can’t California?

California last experienced rolling blackouts in 2001 amid energy market manipulation by speculators. This time the cause is energy market manipulation by anti-fossil fuel politicians. Democrats have mandated that renewables account for 60% of state electricity by 2030, which has forced power providers to invest in renewable energy sources now to meet the deadline. The result is something of a Rube Goldberg physics experiment.

During peak daylight hours, California produces a surplus of solar energy, and power generators may be ordered or paid to cut back their production so the grid isn’t overloaded. On Friday and Saturday Caiso reported about 1,000 mega-watt hours (MWh) were curtailed—enough to power 30,000 homes. This year 1.3 million MWh of power have been curtailed.

But this means supply shortages can occur in the evening when solar energy plunges but demand for power remains high. That’s what happened this weekend. Many natural gas and nuclear plants that can generate power 24/7 have shut down in recent years because they can’t compete with heavily subsidized green energy. A 10-year-old natural gas power plant in California’s Inland Empire is being decommissioned this year—20 to 30 years earlier than its planned lifespan.

State water regulations are also forcing the shutdown of “peaker” plants along the coast that can quickly ramp up generation when the sun goes down. This is why the Public Utilities Commission last year warned the state could face an energy shortage as early as 2021 on hot summer evenings. That day has arrived a year early. Congratulations to Democrats for beating their own forecasts.

When they can get it, Californians already pay twice as much for electricity as Washingtonians and a third more than Nevadans. Because the spot price for power in the summer can surge more than 30-fold from noon to dusk, utilities are building expensive batteries to store solar energy that can be released in the evening. They say that will save money, but that’s also what they said about Jerry Brown’s failed bullet train.

To sum up: California’s antipathy even to natural gas and nuclear power has resulted in higher energy prices and now power surpluses and shortages because renewables are intermittent energy sources.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/califor...ng-11597606724

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California imports oil, gas and electricity, no wonder they have some of the highly energy prices in North America.
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https://climatechangedispatch.com/if...-energy-plans/

You still have nothing to do with America

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This thread is 100% Guano proof!

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Not only do renewables fail to provide the reliable cheap energy that a functioning economy needs, but they also fail on environmental grounds. I call wind turbines bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes because of the millions of bats and birds they slaughter every year.

They are made partly with poisonous rare earth minerals dug up in hideously polluted regions of China. They despoil the landscape, ruin views, and disturb residents with their low-frequency noise and shadow flicker.

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California imports oil, gas and electricity, no wonder they have some of the highly energy prices in North America.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/if...-energy-plans/

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Man, you're supposed to be intelligent.

I've never seen anything intelligent about APL's thread trolling stupidity.

[CFM]

So if you like the GND, you like the blackouts?

I guess we gotta tell those liberals who live on social media like Facebook and Twitter.

If you like something that will produce blackouts, logic dictates you like them.

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So if you like the GND, you like the blackouts?

I guess we gotta tell those liberals who live on social media like Facebook and Twitter.

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So if there were blackouts, you're telling me that nobody complained about it?

Are you sure you want to sell that one to me?

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My opinion? The cows and pigs' farts run the electricity better.

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You still have nothing to do with America

Thailand not a safe place for farangs now

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“ Overall, we rate Climate Change Dispatch as a Conspiracy and Quackery level Pseudoscience source for the promotion of false or misleading information“

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/climate-change-dispatch/

And you are going to take what “climate change dispatch” says seriously?

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“ Overall, we rate Climate Change Dispatch as a Conspiracy and Quackery level Pseudoscience source for the promotion of false or misleading information“

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/climate-change-dispatch/

And you are going to take what “climate change dispatch” says seriously?

Can you ever refute what the content says rather than attacking the source because you don't like the content?

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If you like something that will produce blackouts, logic dictates you like them.

That doesn't make any sense.

Trump supporters are devoid of logic.