Poor California. I was stationed in Orange County CA in 1976 - 1977 it
was very nice. It has since been mismanaged. Why is there so may wild
fires in CA? What about the recall?
Look at San Francisco designer trash cans and poop in the streets.
CA has the biggest homeless problem in the USA.
So what really gives in CA? I think you said what part of the problem
is - "...have not upgraded their power systems in quite some time.".
On 2021-07-27 21:52, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:22:33 -0700
It is also interesting that those very same states that push EV’s also
have not upgraded their power systems in quite some time. California
is the leader on this list of shame with rolling blackouts and
brownouts each summer.
I think this is unfair to California. Much of California is the hottest
in the US. Greenhouse gasses are created by everyone, but California
can least afford to gain a degree. California is also the most
populous state in the nation. So in spite of EV's and all their other
moves to limit environmental damage, they can't reduce the heat that
radiates or blows into California, so they can't keep all their
citizens' houses below 85 Fahrenheit. Hence the rolling blackouts.
They also want to put up more windmills, off
shore! Talk about throwing good money after bad and causing those of
us with computers that are capable of running linux no end of trouble.
I'm not sure how windmills cause havoc with Linux. I thought that was
done by Microsoft.
California could sure use more fission reactors, but in a place where
7+ earthquakes are frequent, doing so is just too likely to cause
another Chernobyl. Plus, anything near the coast is likely to go
Fukushima with a tsunami. They don't have a river capable of generating
huge power from its current. They can't import from surrounding states,
and back in the day, when they imported from Texas, the Texan power
companies stiffed California's power grid in order to make a bigger
profit.
So, other than solar, wind and conservation, I don't see what other
options California has.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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