Twitter thread from the California Energy Commission
⚡️#CalEnergy, @californiapuc, & @AirResources today released the first joint agency report examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045.
Read here: https://bit.ly/2QaaUHh
#CAClimateAction #CleanEnergyFuture #SB100
⚡️The report is the initial analysis called for in #SenateBill100.
#SB100 is the state’s landmark policy requiring renewable & zero-carbon energy resources supply 100% of electric retail sales to customers by 2045.
#CAClimateAction #CleanEnergyFuture #RenewableEnergy
⚡️The report found that the goals of #SB100 can be achieved, but reaching them will require significant investments in new & existing technologies. It also requires an increased, sustained build-out of #CleanEnergy projects to bring those resources on-line.
⚡️ #SB100 builds on the significant progress CA has already made toward a #CleanEnergyFuture including efforts that promote renewable energy, energy efficiency & storage technologies.
#CAClimateAction is essential as the state continues to face the damaging effects of #ClimateChange like never before.
Originally tweeted by California Energy Commission (@CalEnergy) on March 15, 2021.
Here is the full press release.
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Utopia is always 10 years in the future, but trying to get there always makes things worse.
The sad part is that we have to wait 24 years for California’s success.
Under the given conditions, define “success”, I think, we will see results, bad results, but no success.
I think Steven was taking the p!ss Krishna, having an ironic laugh.
If the democrats didn’t conspire to fcuk things up, they would have nothing to pretend to fix – no job, no salary, no parasitism of humanity. What a waste of their lives, and they only have one.
Strangely though, given that I live in California, none of the libtardism has any effect on me. If it ever does, I’ll be philinsomewhereelse.
Hi Steve,
You are too optimistic.
We will have to wait FOREVER for California to be successful!!
Solar panels, and wind turbines, and battery storage, all over the place, would at least triple electricity costs/kWh, even if battery costs decreased.
What a visible mess.
NUCLEAR WOULD BE SOOOO MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE
Californians would face a poor economic prospect, plus be loaded down with at least 10 to 15 million unverified, unhealthy, uneducated, unskilled, undocumented, illegal immigrants.
No funds would be a valuable, because people with means would leave, i.e., California would NEVER have the means to carry out 100% RE
Electricity costs would triple, even if batteries were free.
It is amazing – that is what the math says.
Look you can do anything if you don’t care about energy prices. Run the state on stationary bikes and hire a million people to ride them. So? What you want to do is power the state for a reasonable cost. 8 times more battery construction, and 3 times more wind and solar costs a LOT more to build. Even if they are free – you need the labor and land to install them, along with the management and inverters and transmission lines. Bigger = $$$.
“Even if they are free – you need the labor and land to install them, along with the management and inverters and transmission lines. Bigger = $$$.”
From a Californian politician’s point of view, that’s a feature, not a bug. Big boondoggles to hand out to unions = lots of votes.
As I type this, 14:30 PDT 3/16/2021, solar provides 55% of the total CAISO grid demand. If you double the solar capacity, you will have to shut down every other source AND curtail some solar, or else store the excess with some currently unbuilt capacity at a cost per kWh which exceeds the wholesale price of electricity. This is going to get really ugly very quickly
2:30pm is just about max output.
California must be about cloudless today.
You would need ALL OTHER generators to provide electricity during peak demand hours, after solar has gone to sleep at about 5 pm, until about mid-morning the NEXT day, which hopefully will be sunny, and hopefully there will be some wind as well.
This ship is run by RE fools.
Throw the whole lot overboard, starting with Newsom.
Mark,
I agree 100%.
With TURNKEY costs of mass-produced, grid-scale battery systems, at a dream-like $100/kWh, as AC delivered to the grid, electricity prices would quadruple or more.
COAL AND NATURAL GAS WOULD BE SOOOO MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE
I should have put success in quotes. I was implying the irony of having to wait 24 years to see that what they want to accomplish will be terrible. It would be much better to get to that end state in a year or two so that we can actually see how bad their judgement really is.
It’s most unfortunate that the path to Utopia often leads to Dystopia
By definition “Utopia” will never be in the present, since by definition it means an imaginary and indefinitely remote place. Such places are what posturing politicians always promise a gullible populace.
Plus a billion
Forbes, yep, indeed, correct you are to write: “Such places are what posturing politicians always promise a gullible populace.”
But, permit me to modify this slightly … so as to put a point on it: Such places are what SELF-SERVING politicians always promise an UNEDUCATED-IGNORANT populace.
Self-serving politicians — that is, any and all of those whose primary interest has been to control others … in order that they may be available to “serve” him — have been with us since the beginning of humanity; where, the primary way by which they have been successful is when the “masses” have remained uneducated to where they have been brain-washed, duped, and indoctrinated.
Note: both of these entities “fail” when neither of them possesses a functioning moral compass.
Back in the 80’s, I came across one of those magazines for “executives”.
It had a story about hiring software consultants.
The story went that a junior employee runs into his boss saying .. “Boss. We have a problem here. This software isn’t going to work. The customer will be unhappy. We will never get work again.”
The Boss pulls out a list of the Fortune 500 companies and says: “By the time we screw every company on this list, the managers who hired us will be either dead, retired or moved on to another company.”
Politicians depend on shorter memories.
And therein lies the takeaway wisdom.
Same as the ‘ Climate catastrophe ‘ , end of life as we know it .
The warmist’s energy policies are hurting us far worse than the warmer climate .
….. which isn’t really all that much warmer.
John Bell – you perfectly nailed it
Because the ’30 years hence’ is when almost all the muppets making these claims will be aiming to retire.
(Assume a 40 year ‘working career’ with 10 years initial apprenticeship)
See now where the ’30 year climate baseline comes from?
They want everything to be nice and lovely and peaceful and flowers and rainbows and unicorns and settled Disneyland for when they retire and embark on their Golden Years
Of course, who can blame them, who would NOT want that?
Otherwise = pure unadulterated selfishness made worse that everyone else, especially today’s kids, are expected to pay for it via deficit building, money printing, Municipal Loans and Gilts that require inflation to devalue the money so that even just a token can be paid back
Yes they are ‘thinking of the children‘ as they always claim – as serfs & slaves to fund their own Lovely Lifestyles and golden retirements.
Nice example here
Remember, the kids in that story are running up a debt at the rate of easily £15,000 per year over at least 3 years – then are treated like that….
christ. what. a. mess.
Now we get this coming over the hill…
One single person can be fined £2,500 just for ‘making a noise’
Welcome to ‘Police State UK’
….concurrent with this:
Quote: “”Boris Johnson said footage of officers forcibly removing a number of women from the event was “distressing”.“”
Looks like Police State is already here, or, are the police in a bigger mentally dysfunctional ‘state’ than our politicians?
To say our Elders & Betters are running scared, scared shitless in fact, has got to be the Understatement Of The Century
Scared for their own precious self important little selves while claiming concern for everyone else – kids especially repeatedly as we all here know.
Climate Change is just one small part – we are in really deep shit right here & now
They learned this behaviour from the VicPol in Australia.
This is how UK police assault women for holding a peaceful vigil for a woman (Sarah Everard) murdered by a policeman.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIF.jJBmnD6PFArfLXd0cpDrtg%26pid%3DApi&f=1
allegedly murdered by a policeman, at this stage, I think.
Auto
Communism is always “just over the horizon”
No, sometimes you get there, and a lot of people die. USSR, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc…
Communism is a utopian, State-free society. To achieve it, all means of production and property must first be seized by the collective (“socialism”) and then redistributed to the workers (“communism”).
None of these countries ever got beyond the “socialist” phase of the communist revolution, for obvious reasons: you have to be either a psychopath or ideological fanatic to coercively expropriate everyone’s private property,and such people gave absolutely no inclination to give up power once they’ve achieved it.
+100
Thanks to the “Biden” administration which has baled out California’s ailing school system in the latest stimulus bill, California now uses its fungible monies for its green pursuits.
Don’t look now, but old JB and Co. are planning to reproduce CAs “success” around the country. All you have to do is pay for it. Well, and then keep on paying.
At least California Climate Action got the acronym correct
None of that nearly two trillion dollars will ever be distributed. It’s all just posturing and virtue signalling.
It will be distributed, however the people who actually receive the money are not the people we are being told will receive the money.
Let’s face it, they’ve been at this swindle for so long, we really have no idea where the money will end up. I just know that Obama “retired” to a 15 million dollar waterfront villa on only a few of years a civil servant’s income, having never worked a day in his life (and he ain’t all that bright). It you have the power and organization to “fix” a presidential election you can do pretty much anything. I don’t think people know just how large 2 trillion actually is.
I thought they were going to use the money for trips to Hawaii?
Geez. Can California just fall into the ocean already? Please?
I’ll bring a couple of crow bars.
Make sure it doesn’t float please! We don’t need it washing up on the east coast of Australia
Hey that’s not nice. I gave it a like though.
We did build the greatest free-market capitalist machine in human history. Why do you think we have to lie so hard about being nice ??
“California tumbles into the sea.
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale”
My Old School- Steely Dan
Somewhere on this path surely lies CandyLand.
The only problem being that every time you draw a card it says, “go back to start”.
What part of reduce the fuel load in the forest do they not understand
I think the bit where it takes several years of mismanagement to build up enough fuel load to truly drive a major farce up on a fire.
It is like here in my part of the world where about half of Kangaroo Island burnt at the start of 2020. Yes it is bad, but it also ignores all the years before and after 2020 that half the island DIDN’T burn. No devastating bushfires this summer just past after all.
Information can be both truthful and utterly pointless at the same time.
The fire pyramid is beyond their terms of reference.
PNF-Plumas National Forest (my growing up years) 55% Sustained yield=180M bft/annual, duration forever unless the sun don’t show. Checker board appearance from overhead. 40+ Year harvest cycle. In particular the super green belt (Challenge CA) yield higher. This 55% offered addition significant short time response to an unwanted fire. Harvest includes dozers, water trucks, fallers, and most important of any resource – workers that are familiar with and comfortable in operations on steep slope. PNF on any summer had pre-spotted owl-BS, 7 minimum logging sides all summer. Sometimes these “sides” had adjacent to a yield harvest dead fall clean up (piles). On some given fire weather day nothing in place would be effective with an unwanted fire. However, when the fire weather subsided direct attack was then applicable. School boys have replaced competent foresters. It is not the fault of the school boys that the forest is mismanaged – politicians are the lice and fleas
The promise of clean energy is like the promise of infinite youth.
Can we link the promise of clean energy to being generated by the promise of perpetual motion?
Renewable Energy…Perpetual Futility
“California …continues to face the [imaginary] damaging effects of #ClimateChange…”
and I can guarantee you that the CARB plan does not consider the demand increases that charging tens of millions of Cal resident’s mandated EVs in these time frames. And the nuclear generated electric power provided from the last nuclear plant in Cal at Diablo Canyon will be gone by 2025. These morons will make Cal so dependent on the surrounding states to pull their dumbasses out of the mess with power transfers during even routine summer hot spells there will be rolling black-outs.
The dumbasses at CARB/CalEnergy who put this report together also think that acres burned in 2020 compared to the previous 4 wet years is somehow indicative of climate change. What a bunch of morons.
If the remaining Californians allow this to happen, then they deserve to sit in dark and pay 4x – 5x times today’s rates for electricity … when they have it.
Unfortunately, Californians flee the state but don’t change their voting habits. Texas is getting bluer. New Mexico is pretty much blue. Arizona is nearly blue. Colorado recently turned blue. In the last election, we had half a dozen tax increases passed by residents. Many had failed in previous elections. Californians move to Colorado and see a sub-5% income tax and sub-8% sales tax and think “sure, we can pay more taxes.” Unfortunately they don’t open their eyes. They don’t see all the previous tax increases we’ve endured, and the legalization of pot with taxes taking us to the promised land… Yet nothing has changed. Roads are still crap. Schools are still crap. They always want more.
Only 1 thing left to do.
I be a pre Californian. Attended a county meeting Nevada. 6 Out of 10 people attending – at least sounded like kaliforknia. Government has the solution. I am continuing to look for a 1st Nevada family person (historical) immigrant. Native Americans of 1520 are immigrants. Having displaced someone here before.
Step One: Get rid of everything that uses electricity.
33% in 2020?
They’ve fallen way behind even before they can get started.
It’s more like 3%.
some data from 2018 in GWh
yearly https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2019-total-system-electric-generation/2018
the weird thing is imported power from unspecified sources is 37% of imports or 11% of total
Unspecified Sources – nifty way to hide imported electricity generated from coal
The belief that they only need to increase the number of batteries by a factor of 8 is also pure fantasy. An increase of 800 would be just a start.
Their renewable energy may produce zero emissions, after they are manufactured, but they are anything but clean if you consider they are not recyclable.
Utopia will also include exorbitant energy costs and black outs.
Expect the exodus from California to continue but lets hope the Green Energy plague does not spread to other states.
That’s the problem – people leave CA for other states, but can’t seem to learn from their ruinous mistakes and keep voting for the same stupidity that forced them to leave Kalifornia in the first place.
They didn’t read and comprehend this then
https://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/topic/138483-here-and-there/
It’s already here in Mass. which is also a center of the plague- moving to nearby states rapidly.
That’s not a plan, it’s a wish list that can’t be fulfilled with today’s technology.
Nor any foreseeable technology.
Nuclear would work
Dispatchable
Constant
Reliable
Weather Proof
CO2 free
And ultra high density energy production 2200MW on 12 acres
Bryan, of course nuclear would work. But many urban Californians have been pre-programmed to respond negatively and derisively to nuclear technology.
Yep, the silly middle-aged, and old and senile white ladies around here who have moved on to the Black Lives Matter bumper stickers can still get a No Nukes bumper sticker if they want one:
All of the 2,000+MW of 24/7/365 carbon-less nuclear power in California is slated to shutdown by 2025.
Should have specified “renewable technology”, since that’s what the topic was.
I’d rather have nuclear in my backyard than a wind turbine. I think you have to be programmed to accept wind. First time I saw a large wind turbine was in PEI. As the sun was setting I drove through shadows of the blades. Scared me silly. It feels creepy. These things are in horror flicks!
The horror movie “Turbines” – it’s real!!!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363483/
The universe is nuclear so we should be too.
“The report found that the goals of SB100 can be achieved, but reaching them will require significant investments in new & existing technologies.”
It ought to be an axiom that any long term plan that requires “new” technologies to work can be safely assumed to be BS.
Kalifornica will achieve 100% clean energy when they import 100% of their energy. Someone needs to check the drinking water in Sacremento . Oh, I forgot what all is legal there now.
What’s Califronia going to do if surrounding States all decide to do what California is doing and try to run their States using windmills and solar?
Today, when California runs short of electricity they import it from surrounding States. What happens when all the windmills stop working in California and the surrounding States? Answer: Blackout.
Good planning, screwballs. I call them screwballs because they just can’t seem to see this scenario in their minds. They are concentrated on building windmills, and not on the ramifications of building windmills.
High-pressure weather systems can settle down over California and surrounding States, just like they do in the rest of the U.S. and the world When that happens, the windmills don’t work. It is *inevitable* that this will happen. What’s the plan then, genuises?
Solar!
Are you serious?
To be fair: He didn’t say it would work, just that it’s the plan.
Which will be filed on the fiction section.
100% zero carbon energy is easily attainable. In fact the western world can achieve this target today. Just cut the electricity, gas and water supplies and close all of the refineries.
Utopia will follow….
I assume Rusty was being sarcastic “Utopia will follow….” .. reality would be “Dystopia & anarchy will follow”. Human behavior & practical economics will ultimately win.
Westerners have already experienced living in carbon-neutral economies.
We call them the Middle-Ages.
“California Releases Report Charting Path to 100 Percent Clean Electricity.”
should be –
California Releases Report Charting Path to Sure-fire Economic and Societal Disaster.
(no formatting options?)
Let me guess: plan courtesy of Stanford’s Mark Jacobson? He already has an enviable record of success.
Regardless, FFC achieving zero carbon (zero CO2 emissions, in reality).
If CA is unable to stabilize its imagined wind and solar grid using other sources of electricity, and get copious backup when its renewable systems fail to renew, the state will crash.
But only after spending half a trillion dollars it doesn’t have to build a system that doesn’t work.
The whole thing is so far beyond criminal malfeasance that some future people will have to invent a whole new word to describe it.
Not to worry. Nancy, Chuckie, and Joe will bail out California with massive infusions of federal cash. And when it doesn’t produce results, they’ll just send more cash.
The suit was certainly ill advised. He should have just been happy with the fact that his co-authors backed him up, that the article itself has had 315 citations, and that the response by him and all of his co-authors to his critic has had 56, so far. Doh! Sorry Pat, touchy subject there….
Who pays you to post?
“Who pays you to post?”
Ironically, private sector oil and gas producers, domestic and international. Proud, adult lifelong oilfield trasher. If you saw the future and saved up (most of us didn’t), then you have no need to shill for the industry, struggling in it’s twilight.
https://isotokc.com/about-us
Once again, bob displays his belief that science is run as a popularity contest.
Mann, Bradley, Hughes, 1998 has 2466 citations, Mann has been backed up by his coauthors, while the definitive disproof of MBH 98 has only 334 citations.
And yet, MBH 98 is not only wrong but a notorious fraud.
A phony hockey stick is more dangerous than a broken one
There’s your logic, Bob. The Doh! is in your court.
they misspelled “100% Unreliable Electricity”… and the fires wouldn’t be so bad if the green a33hats would allow thinning of the forests and controlled burns in the spring.
as a native, what my state has become is an obscenity. i console myself with the knowledge that i didn’t vote for these idiots or their propositions.
No, you just have to suffer from their stupidity.
Thinning the forests could be a great source of fuel for biomass electricity generation
The only thing I saw that was positive in there was “small hydro.” Good luck with that, though. The Save the Whales and Save the Snails crowd will put a stop to any hydro project regardless of the scale.
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As I recall, hydro wasn’t counted in renewables before. I wonder why it’s counted now?
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Oh, I suppose some crony of the pollies will be selling micro hydro generators that you can stick in the creek running through your back yard… until you get 10 neighbors in a row on the same creek and only the first one or two gets any power.
“As I recall, hydro wasn’t counted in renewables before. I wonder why it’s counted now?”
Because there’s no possible way to get to 100% renewables otherwise.
“…10 neighbors in a row on the same creek and only the first one or two gets any power.”
Yeah, I remember my grampa’s farm. Used to have all these windmills to pump water. Then he took out most of them. He said there was not enough wind for all of them…
I’m sorry, HR my mate, but I have to ask you to sit down and think about that until you laugh.
More concerning is that nobody so far noticed “biomass”.
1) Coal is also biomass. So is oil. But let us agree they are talking about crop leftovers. Do they think adding “bio-” at the front gets rid of the carbon?
2) Biofuels (which is what I really think they mean) are made from speciality crops, so genetically corrupted, it is poisonous to eat. So you take good farmland, plant poisonous corn, then you raise taxes because there is a food shortage? Good going!
3) Some burn waste and call that ‘biomass’. This brings us to the core of the climastrology scam: The real danger to our continued health and welfare is pollution, a solvable problem, with costs to the polluter. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, is fairly benign and is a byproduct of life. So, instead of cleaning up after themselves, the predatory capitalists (read: Bolshevik communists) have found a way to blame us for their mistakes, and then demand we pay to fix it, then, instead of fixing it, they pocket the money. After spending a bit on propaganda and language-raping first, of course.
Biomass my ass!
paranoid goy:
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Yeah, you’re right. They are all screwed at some point. (see Bollington link below)
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I was figuring some shyster who donated enough to political campaigns will sell water wheels to people along the step-above drainage ditches that are often on the perimeters of 100, 200, 300 house subdivisions and there’s little change in elevation. It would wind up much like the shysters who sell solar panels to people whose roof is poorly or sited (trees, taller buildings, not facing the sun, etc.) to capture any useful solar energy.
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Take a look at the two links and then use your imagination to think of how many people in a flat-ish subdivision with a creek that’s little more than a drainage ditch could get screwed with yet more intermittent power.
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Water Wheel electricity. – YouTube
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The second paragraph in the following describes the problem and it would be even more problematic with little change in elevation.
Mill Ponds – Bollington, the Happy Valley!
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Micro hydro power systems can work in some applications, but I was taking the cynical view in my original comment.
And then where does the food needed to feed 10s of millions of Californians come from? But hey, at least they can drive their EVs while scouring for food.
Small hydro doesn’t actually impede the flow of streams/rivers…
Hydroelectric power plants taking bigger toll on fish than expected
Since 2014, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) led by Jürgen Geist, a professor of aquatic systems biology, has been investigating the effects of hydroelectric power plants on aquatic habitats and fish moving downstream. What they discovered in the process may improve future dam planning, as well as retrofitting of existing hydroelectric power plants.
While fish moving upstream can get around a dam using a fish passage, those migrating downstream often enter the machinery. Conventional power plants equipped with Pelton, Kaplan, or Francis turbines have high fish mortality due to their high rotation speed, pressure changes, and shear forces, the researchers noted.
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The team has so far analyzed seven power plants of four types in Bavaria, Germany. The types of plants analyzed include VLH turbines, Archimedes screw turbines, movable hydroelectric power plants, and conventional hydroelectric power plants, such as Kaplan bulb turbines. Assessment of a shaft power plant is planned for the future.
Ecological impacts of small hydropower plantson headwater stream fish: from individual tocommunity effects
Effects of small hydropower plants on habitat features
There were significant differences in habitat featuresbetween control and impacted reaches for water diversion of small hydropower plants (Tables 3 and4). In particular, impacted reaches were characterisedby shallower water depth, lower presence of total ref-uges for fish, lower abundance of riffles and higher abundance of pools. (Table 3). The substrate compo-sition was only marginally significant, with a trend of higher presence of boulders and lower of cobbles inthe control reaches.Moreover, the results of Rapid Bioassessment Pro-tocol variables showed that impacted reaches hadpoorer habitat structure and lower presence of macro-phytes (Table 4). The Rapid Bioassessment Protocolvariables showed significant differences among sites
If it isn’t impeding the flow, then it isn’t generating any power.
The legendary scientist that is griff invents yet another perpetual motion machine.
It must be so kewl to live on a planet that does not require mathematics.
Ah, griff. I agree with you, stuff the dweebs for pouncing on an innocent statement…
griff, maybe we agree that most of the problematic implementations of technology happen because “designers” made all the plans, instead of engineers. A small hydroplant that disrupts the habitat was probably “designed” by the chairman’s nephew. Or arty niece.
Such is life in an engineering firm run by accountants… They would insist on achieving maximum return on available resources and block the entire river; probably try to sell you the optional built-in sushi maker!
griff – You didn’t read the second paragraph of the second link, and I’m not talking rivers for home, micro applications but drainage ditches that will attract the attention of well-meaning, blue ribbon commissions which is what the posted article is about.
The first link is actually a pretty cool micro hydro setup. But note the use of a mill pond and note the change in elevation. (Mill ponds are used when there is not enough flow to produce sufficient power from stream flow alone, so the water is ‘saved up’ until there is enough potential energy stored to let loose for power.
Now imagine 10 of those 70′ or 80′ or 90′ apart all in a row with minimal change in elevation and slow-filling, small – maybe 4′ x 10′ as in the video – mill ponds. If you can’t see a problem with that and how everyone will wind up short of flow at some point, then you were dealt a hand that was one imagination card short and you were cheated by your 7th grade science teacher. (You should demand a refund.)
Now consider the history of government interference, solar panels** being a fine recent example. It is not hard to foresee that at some point, small hydro could be mandated either for everyone on a drainage ditch or incentivized via subsidy.
And instead of the nifty little application shown in the first video, a boatload of people will be watching, well… nothing much happening or in marginal cases, waiting for their turn at a little power as their mill pond fills.
You can’t stop water from seeking its lowest point and, as was also pointed out to you by , each little water wheel robs some of the energy in the flow, highly noticeable in low flow streams that might support one or at most, two water wheels.
Micro hydro can be great, but widespread use, particularly if mandated by gummint, will end in tears. I’m cynical about any significant contribution to power supply from micro hydro.
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** Note: Solar panels/power is wonderful in some applications. It’s a perfect solution in some cases. The subsidies to increase their use everywhere is where solar goes off the rails. Solar cannot deliver for all applications.
More nukes, and fewer morons in the CA State legislature and the Federal government, would be a good start.
Nuclear electricity is about the only viable option for California.
California should build enough new nuclear reactors to supply California’s baseload power, and if some idiot wants to build a windmil, they can sell their windmill electiricty to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley can buy a lot of diesel generators for use when their windmills stop working. They can afford it. The rest of California can go on about its business as usual as the nuke power plants continuously pump out the electricty.
Maybe California will get a new, better governor before long who will put a stop to this windmill/solar insanity.
re: “California Releases Report Charting Path to 100 Percent Clean Electricity”
Outside of nuclear (AND nuclear could turn into “stranded assets” in this scenario) the ONLY solution to this problem is Dr. Mills SunCell ™ ‘reactor’ device, WHICH was demonstrated to a couple of hundred invited guests which included academia, business and government leaders in Washington DC back on Feb 4th and 5th of this year.
A 150 kW thermal device was shown working *in* Washington DC at the hotel where the demo and talks were held. This was an accomplishment on a par with the Wright bothers first flight at Kitty Hawk …
https://youtu.be/JJln7jVcLFA
Demonstrations are meaningless.
Until you let those academics pull it apart and check what kind of stunts you are pulling under the hood, the only safe assumption is scam.
A typical natural-gas-fired turbine can deliver 250 MW (250,000 kW) of power, or 1,667 times more power than the “demonstration thermal device” in DC. Most commercial power plants have several gas turbines in parallel.
The Wright Brothers’ first flight was an achievement in its time, but it only carried one man about 200 feet along a beach before landing. Modern aircraft can carry hundreds of passengers for thousands of miles, at much higher speeds than the Wright Brothers’ plane, without refueling. The Wright Brothers’ plane was also powered by a gasoline engine, since they realized that human muscles could never generate enough power to lift a person off the ground for more than a few seconds.
Do the inventers of the “demonstration thermal device” in DC have the wherewithal to multiply the power output of their device by 2,000 or more, without using fossil fuel?
Lots of good intentions on that path, so we all know where it’s going.
IDIOTS!
Yeah, either do all that wasteful stuff, or build a few nuclear plants.
Key points from press release:
“….the goals of SB 100 can be achieved in different ways, but reaching them will require significant investments…. It (this report) will be followed with additional analyses of energy reliability and evolving conditions.”
So, it’s going to cost you alot and if you want it reliable, it will cost even more.
Texas: Watch me collapse the power grid with federally subsidized expensive clean energy.
California: Hold my beer.
The California elites don’t think California is vulnerable to what happened in Texas because it doesn’t get very cold in California.
They seem to have overlooked the fact that the wind stopped blowing over the central US during the arctic cold front. This was caused by a high-pressure weather system settling down over the area and causing the winds to fall off over the whole area of the central United States.
California won’t get as cold as Texas, but California certainly has times when a high-pressure system will settle down over it and the winds stop blowing on these occasions, too, so California is not immune from having all their windmills stop working at the same time for lack of wind. Just like Texas.
It is reckless to try to depend on windmills for your primary power. It is a fatally flawed plan. We saw a little of what is to come by building more windmills with the power outages that happened all over the central U.S. during the cold snap because the windmills in this area were not working properly for lack of wind and this caused rolling blackout all over the area, with Texas having the worst time of it, because Texas has the most percentage of windmills operating, and so took a bigger hit when they went down.
It looks to me like all these power grids have put about as many windmills on their grids as they can safely handle. They almost did not handle the last potential blackout of the whole grid, but they got by enough to keep most of it running. Add more windmills without adeqate backup and you won’t get out of the next high-pressure weather system stress on the grid.
We have just about reached Peak Windmill. Adding more will put the electrical grid and our livelihoods in jeopardy.
A word to the wise is sufficient.