Everyone is working from home and its hot as fuck. Definitely huge demand. But the state is too cucked to use proven energy technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear because of muh environment. So there is stress on both sides of the equation, and Democrats contributing to it on both sides by forcing people to stay home and forcing people to not use certain energy sources.
It gets worse. If the power went out last year, you could go to a Starcucks or something. Now everything’s still locked down, meaning that if you have a work deadline and the power gets cut, you better pray that you had the foresight to buy a generator before this shit started
They put all kinds of restrictions and regulations on generators to be able to buy them in California (because of muh environmental emissions), in turn severely limiting where we could buy them (no ordering online from out of state) and jacking the price up $300-500 or more.
Supplementing the grid with renewables is one thing. A 1:1 replacement of nuclear/fossil generation with renewables is one thing. Creating a 4 gigawatt deficit just so the Dems and renewable energy barons make billions is totally another.
Actually that is the fallacy. It is impossible to replace power sources you can CONTROL (nuclear, carbon fuels) with ones you cannot (wind, solar, sometimes hydro).
All the capacity in the world is useless if the wind doesn't blow or the clouds show up. 1:1 replacement cannot work. That's the entire problem. They don't lack theoretical capacity. They lack the capacity to deal with wind and solar crapping the bed on certain days.
To be honest, if nuclear were continuously invested into then we would likely be able to find a way to properly deal with the waste.
What keeps people scared of nuclear are events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but don't consider that Fukushima happened due to an irregular tsunami in a giant glorified island, and Chernobyl had a lot of beaurecratic bullshit and it was covered up instead of properly handled.
In the U.S., this isn't likely to happen. We have stringent regulation on nuclear energy and the buildings that house it.
Well, let me rephrase: I know there are plans in place to deal with the waste, but it doesn't just disappear.
So if we were to expand our nuclear energy, we would want to implement a better plan and continue to crack into the science of radiation and how to deal with it.
But yes: everyone is scared of disaster, but our power plants are built with almost every scenario in mind nowadays.
I know that we will decommission or upgrade plants as needed, but other countries may not be as stringent or have the luxury of doing so. America is, and does though.
This is one of the biggest lies fake news is currently pulling off on the American people. Business's use way more water and electricity than personal homes do. The media is flat out lying when they claim the lock down is causing increased demand on the power grid, it's the opposite. If Commiefornia was still functioning the power situation would be far far worse.
That's just not true. Heating and cooling buildings is WAY more efficient than personal homes. In an office environment, you have people packed in way more closely than a typical neighborhood, so you can have larger equipment run more efficiently. When everyone is at home, those small units are not nearly as efficient and require more electricity overall. Under normal circumstances the power usage is usually pretty close between businesses and homes in a state like California, but when they are having an insane heatwave the efficiency differences between large and small cooling equipment is substantial.
How about hydro electric power? Seems any movement in that direction in CA has been stopped altogether. And whatever existing hydro plants and dams in CA are a crumbling, neglected mess, like the Oroville Dam that’s constantly looking like it will bust.
Everyone is working from home and its hot as fuck. Definitely huge demand. But the state is too cucked to use proven energy technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear because of muh environment. So there is stress on both sides of the equation, and Democrats contributing to it on both sides by forcing people to stay home and forcing people to not use certain energy sources.
It gets worse. If the power went out last year, you could go to a Starcucks or something. Now everything’s still locked down, meaning that if you have a work deadline and the power gets cut, you better pray that you had the foresight to buy a generator before this shit started
Didnt they try to ban generators? Remmeber reading it on t_d reddit or smth
Even if they didn't in CA it probably costs $8000 and hour to run one because their gas and diesel prices are high.
They put all kinds of restrictions and regulations on generators to be able to buy them in California (because of muh environmental emissions), in turn severely limiting where we could buy them (no ordering online from out of state) and jacking the price up $300-500 or more.
Yup. And this is the state that claims they subsidize and allow the rest of the country to run
Do you have a source on this? I would love to use it to redpill some people!
Supplementing the grid with renewables is one thing. A 1:1 replacement of nuclear/fossil generation with renewables is one thing. Creating a 4 gigawatt deficit just so the Dems and renewable energy barons make billions is totally another.
Actually that is the fallacy. It is impossible to replace power sources you can CONTROL (nuclear, carbon fuels) with ones you cannot (wind, solar, sometimes hydro).
All the capacity in the world is useless if the wind doesn't blow or the clouds show up. 1:1 replacement cannot work. That's the entire problem. They don't lack theoretical capacity. They lack the capacity to deal with wind and solar crapping the bed on certain days.
They also lack theoretical capacity, in fact. They are a (shockingly large) net importer of power.
To be honest, if nuclear were continuously invested into then we would likely be able to find a way to properly deal with the waste.
What keeps people scared of nuclear are events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but don't consider that Fukushima happened due to an irregular tsunami in a giant glorified island, and Chernobyl had a lot of beaurecratic bullshit and it was covered up instead of properly handled.
In the U.S., this isn't likely to happen. We have stringent regulation on nuclear energy and the buildings that house it.
Well, let me rephrase: I know there are plans in place to deal with the waste, but it doesn't just disappear.
So if we were to expand our nuclear energy, we would want to implement a better plan and continue to crack into the science of radiation and how to deal with it.
But yes: everyone is scared of disaster, but our power plants are built with almost every scenario in mind nowadays.
Fukushima was also a plant that was old
Was it? I missed that part when it happened.
I know that we will decommission or upgrade plants as needed, but other countries may not be as stringent or have the luxury of doing so. America is, and does though.
Because after the fuel is spent it gets made into bullets and aircraft ballast
This is one of the biggest lies fake news is currently pulling off on the American people. Business's use way more water and electricity than personal homes do. The media is flat out lying when they claim the lock down is causing increased demand on the power grid, it's the opposite. If Commiefornia was still functioning the power situation would be far far worse.
That's just not true. Heating and cooling buildings is WAY more efficient than personal homes. In an office environment, you have people packed in way more closely than a typical neighborhood, so you can have larger equipment run more efficiently. When everyone is at home, those small units are not nearly as efficient and require more electricity overall. Under normal circumstances the power usage is usually pretty close between businesses and homes in a state like California, but when they are having an insane heatwave the efficiency differences between large and small cooling equipment is substantial.
Source: Am MEP Engineer
How about hydro electric power? Seems any movement in that direction in CA has been stopped altogether. And whatever existing hydro plants and dams in CA are a crumbling, neglected mess, like the Oroville Dam that’s constantly looking like it will bust.