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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If California ceased to exist and produced no contribution to global atmospheric gas the concentration of CO2 would continue to rise in line with the change in global temperatures and fall in line with those changes when they decline.
California is suffering from a delusion of grandeur. How does a state of the Union whose prime reputation across the world, is the fabrication of make believe films ever consider itself important enough to dictate energy policy to others?
It will make interesting viewing over the coming years as the journey along the yellow brick roads leads them to a man hidden behind a curtain. I suspect the wizard will then reveal himself, sporting a full beard and waving a hockey stick.
Maybe even develop a little tune appropriate to the endeavour.
“Were off to see the buzzard
The wonderful buzzard that was
We hear he was a wiz of a wiz
Before the wiz of the whirling wind that was
Now we can’t see the buzzard that was
Because, because, because… he was”.
Western Civilization has moved from, “I think, therefore I am”, to Leftists’ insane new maxim of, “I feel something is true, therefore it is…”
No civilization can survive such a delusional and fallacious philosophy…
Don’t forget “I talked about something, therefore I did it”. e.g. Nobel Peace prize for Obama.
The visionary ideology– I feel something, therefore it is– is not entirely new. Between World War 1 and World War 2, France believed it could “imagine” itself out of war by indoctrinating its children. And Britain, much the same when Neville Chamberlain came back from Germany, Munich Agreement papers in hand, and arrogantly remarked, “I believe it is peace for our time.” War broke out less than a year later. All machinations of the mind that brought societies to the brink of annihilation (and crossed said brink in the case of France).
Battery storage (or if you are lucky Pumped hydro) is always touted as a solution for intermittency of renewables.
Assuming you could build batteries to meaningful scale, I’m not convinced that the intermittency of renewables would actually allow enough surplus to actually charge the batteries (or pumped hydro) reliably.
(Especially since we’ll be using all our off peak capacity to charge EVs)
Are perpetual motion machines part of the plans.
In western Massachusetts is a wonderful pumped storage project- that was pumped by a nearby nuclear reactor- which was shut down by the greenies. Now, the alarmists are saying that there is no more need for the pumped storage site- so let’s close that too- though they’re pushing wind and solar- Mass. has a similar plan as CA- net free by 2050.
There is nothing clean about wind, solar and batteries.
The pie-chart is missing. The one for pie in the sky.
What’s that? Cloud Cuckooland released a report? They say they’re charting a course to 100% economic ruin?
Wonders will never cease!
It really is baffling how all these clowns can ignore the fossil fuels that are required to make windmills and solar panels. It is as if the very act of producing the windmill or solar panel instantly conveys purity of purpose and they become magically cleansed of all evil. It must be nice to be so certain they are on the correct path to salvation, sort of the lies the Inquisitors must have told one another as they burned yet another heretic….
These are the same people who think that food comes from grocery stores.
Thinking about where the windmills and solar panels come from is beyond them.
There is no doubt that California is the poster child for mis-management, whether you are referring to forestry, electricity or whatever. Some things, such as paying Arizona to take excess solar are slightly humorous. Others are scarier, such as requiring an actual vote/decision not to close permanently fossil fuel power plants amidst a period of rolling blackouts for both load and fire prevention reasons. And then the clueless governor announces his plan to deal with the power problems – require eveyone to buy a electric car by 2035.
So why would anyone believe that this report bears any relationship to reality?
Fancy full-color graphics?
Homelessness fits right into the 100% clean energy plan. People living in tents on the sidewalk and unable to afford transportation use very little energy. Same for goes for the effect of lockdowns and blackouts on energy use.
just what would be 100% clean energy? I swear, everybody is just plain nuts.
As far as I understand the tenets of the new Green religion, if the entire planet does not curtail its CO2 emissions almost entirely within the next 10 years, then catastrophic warming will be “baked in” to the system, no matter what. That being the case, then by what new magic will California avoid the consequences of a global climate system that has irreparably transformed into warming mode? Have the priests decided that Californian virtue can erect a sort of shield around the state, protecting it from the otherwise global wrath of Gaia? Or is this just one of the many sacred mysteries that only the priestly caste can understand?
So why was it so cold this past February?
Global warming causes everything.
One would need to demystify the term “baked in”. Because if it means that it is systemic in nature, then man was screwed from day one of his existence. Or, put differently and with a higher dose of derisive dismissiveness: they’ve been saying “in 10 years it will be too late” for the last 50 years.
I would look at it somewhat differently. If the uncontrollable warming that the Climate Faithful imagine will become inevitable in ten years is supposedly a scientific certainty, then on what basis are they seeking to change anything by the year 2045? What exactly is the point?
Either we are doomed, or we aren’t. The Faithful seem to effortlessly hold both of these propositions in their head at the same time, but they are never called on it. If the State of California has a plan to decarbonize by 2045, then are they claiming that the IPCC’s super scientific claim of irreversible doom is wrong? What specific aspect of that consensus science do they disagree with? I fail to understand why no one calls them or others on that question. Surely, someone in the press pool is capable of noticing that they have professed propositions that are clearly contradictory.
Please invest in my new business to capture natural electricity from lightning via copper rods into batteries (which are getting cheaper).
I anticipate supplying renewable energy after every storm.
By 2099.
Refunds in full if the project fails to achieve its target.
Their path is doomed to fail.
Why?
They left out lightening rods and flux capacitors. (Not to mention Mr. Fusion!)
Meanwhile the dealmakers are getting by.
Iranian Oil Surge to China Hurts OPEC Efforts to Tighten Supply (yahoo.com)
Did April fools day come early?
I thought California’s plan was to decommission all its fossil fuel plants and buy electricity from other states that may or may not use fossil fuels at whatever exorbitant rates are dictated. Problem solved.
100% Clean…Then they are going Nuclear?
8X the number of batteries? WHAT BATTERIES?
They tell me microwaves are all the go-
Microwave-powered boiler could replace gas boilers by 2022 (msn.com)
Add the boilers and cookers to the burial mounds of old turbine blades solar panels and lithium batteries. We’re going Green folks.
They say that 63% of California’s energy came from non-fossil fuel sources: renewables, hydroelectric, and nuclear. They don’t say what share came from each of those three sources. Most likely, the lion’s share of that 63% came from nuclear, which would be the best choice for reducing CO2 emissions.
But since they list “renewables” first, people are misled into thinking that renewables can provide more power. California gets more sunshine than most states, but it also has a huge power-hungry population along the coast, whose needs could never be satisfied by solar power.
Hydroelectric power is clean and doesn’t emit anything, but it requires water flowing downhill, so it doesn’t provide much power during drought years, and greenies out there are always asking to tear down dams in order to save some obscure fish. If there is very little rain in the summer, dams are needed to save snowmelt for release when the water and power is most needed. Besides, they will provide pretty lakes for people to go boating and fishing when it gets too hot in LA.
If California really wants to go carbon neutral, they will have to “go nuclear”. They just need to build their nuclear plants far away from the San Andreas fault.
From the article: “#CAClimateAction is essential as the state continues to face the damaging effects of #ClimateChange like never before.”
Of course, there is no evidence Human-caused climate change is real, much less that it is doing damage to California.
Human-caused climate change requires increased temperatures, but if you look at a California regional surface temperature chart, you will find that the temperartures are cooling, not warming in California.
So how do you get Human-caused Global Warming/Climate Change when it’s not warming? Answer: You don’t, these fools don’t know what they are talking about.
Well at least other States can watch this poorly planned experiment and see the damages it causes. I wonder just how they expect to recharge the batteries when they don’t even have enough electricity to go around…remember they are not building out any new reliable power, so my guess is they will be importing a LOT of “unclean” energy from other states – assuming there is any available.
I also wonder if they are aware that the batteries will have to be changed out every ten years or so, and the wind turbines every 20 or so – going down this road means endless replacements and rebuilding causing more “pollution”.
Then there will be an unusual summer where drought has lowered water behind the dams and the wind just isn’t blowing as much (a sustained high pressure system). I guess they will just live without energy for months to years until “normal conditions” return.
If I were a company dependent on reliable energy I would be putting together my plans to move as soon as possible.
“I also wonder if they are aware that the batteries will have to be changed out every ten years or so, and the wind turbines every 20 or so”
I saw an article in a left-leaning magazine a couple of days ago and they were voicing worries about the problem of properly disposing of used windmill blades.
This is early in the process, and even some on the left are voicing concerns.
The situation will only get worse from here if we continue down the windmill road. The left needs to come up with a better alternative (Hint: nuclear energy).
California is no longer the sunshine state and become the ‘no’ state. No this, no that, no something else.
For example, millions of ‘no parking 2am to 4am’ signs.
I have lived in California on and off since 1960. Even worked at a nuke plant. Lots of friends and family there but a place I avoid in retirement because of politics and too many cars driving too fast.
So let me explain the ‘100 % clean RESIDENTIAL electricity scam’.
First there is a mild climate and heating and hot water is often done with natural gas.
In other words, a small part of the pie. No big accomplishment.
When I moved back to California from Michigan I built my low energy dream house. Title 24 mandated Michigan houses not houses suited for the climate. When my building permit was rejected because of too many windows, I directed my architect to relabel south facing windows as ‘passive solar collectors’ and provided 37 pages of calculation per ASRAE.
Thermal mass (12″ logs), low e glass, and overhangs kept the house cool in the summer even when it was 110 F.
Here is the crazy part of California. When the nuke plant I worked at closed, had to sell my dream house and move out of state. Rediscovered affordable housing, clean air, good schools, low taxes, and no crime.
We got a motorhome when we retired. Camped on the Gulf of Mexico beach for free in Texas. Took the free ferry to Galveston. Texas is a great state to travel in. Friendly!
California used to be a great state too. All the great things to do and see, I have already done because of being stationed there in the navy and working there. And there are still parts of the state isolated from the craziness.
Always enjoyed the Pacific Coast Highway before the ‘no parking 2am to 4am’ signs. But they are everywhere. I was at a marina where I kept my boat for years. I knew it was a safe place. At 1am, two squad cars and four police officers informed me that I had to leave.
Did find a place where the signs were not being enforced judging from the homeless sleeping on the sidewalk.
One of the consequences of idiotic environmental regulations is the cost puts those on the margins of the street. I have noticed a lot of people in California sleeping in their cars.
It’s all about centralized control. Like most fascist governments. IL NUCE(*) Newsom is about to go away, but that doesn’t stop a crazy bunch in the Sacto bunker from screwing us all over. They pretend to be for the poor, but they hurt the poor the most with these nutty schemes. It just makes more people dependent on government transfers. Problem is, there are fewer working people to rob. I can’t believe you can sustain a big state like CA on the revenue of a few Leftist big tech corporations no matter whether they believe in the hokum or not. It’s just a play. Eventually, they will abandon their parasitized host and move on to maybe Texas to suck the life out of that state.
* IL NUCE means “the punk”, vs IL DUCE meaning “the leader”.
Californians need to buy back up generators and keep a good supply of gasoline / propane to run them because moving to zero carbon means outages and a third world intermittent electricity supply. Then LA and the Bay area will become like Lagos Nigeria where the hum of generators in an oil rich country without proper electricity supplies will annoy all those woke folk with solar panels on cloudy days when the wind doesn’t blow and the dams are nearly empty so the hydro is at quarter speed.