I’m shocked. I thought that solar and wind could provide all they needed
The lights went out. Now California might let these gas plants stay open
State officials are poised to decide whether four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast should keep running past 2020, in the first major energy decision for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration after this month’s blackouts.
The aging, inefficient facilities are being required to close under a policy meant to end the environmentally damaging use of ocean water for power plant cooling. But energy regulators have been pushing since last year to delay the retirement deadlines, warning that insufficient power supplies could cause Californians to lose electricity on hot summer evenings — the exact situation millions of people found themselves in during two evenings of brief rotating outages.
Even before the blackouts Aug. 14 and 15, the debate over how and when to close the coastal gas plants offered a preview of challenges California will increasingly face as it accelerates its transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
This could have been avoided had California allowed nuclear power plants. Too late for that now. Let California suffer. Maybe the hardcore leftist Cult of Climastrology members reap what they sow.
Meanwhile in the People’s Republic Of California, wildfires are apparently the new normal
The orange glow from wildfires in the evening sky is a new way of life in the Golden State.
A lightning siege of over 12,000 strikes in 10 days ignited over 600 wildfires. Two of which have exploded into two of the top three largest wildfires in California history.
More than 1 million acres have already burned. That is an area five times the size of New York City.
Vast forests of dead trees have become tinderboxes, the result of years of warming temperatures, droughts and beetle-infestations.
Yes, the same state which refuses to allow brush and dead trees to be cleared, and has always had problems with wildfires. Apparently, there was no lightning prior to 1850.
Hotter temperatures mean drier land. A parched atmosphere. It’s that simple.
Yeah, a whole 1.5F hotter over 170 years.
“The clearest link between California wildfire and anthropogenic climate change thus far has been via warming-driven increases in atmospheric aridity, which works to dry fuels and promote summer forest fire,” the report said.
That’s not a link, that’s imparting a cultish belief on a mostly-natural occurrence for the Earth. But, this is CNN, so, no proof is actually offered. And, perhaps the mostly state controlled power companies could stop having accidents with power lines, starting fires.
