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Chuj 111 points ago +111 / -0

If people truly care about the environment, then they realize nuclear energy is a wise choice. But that is just some dumb thing called science. Unimportant to blue haired virtue signalers

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Diotima 63 points ago +63 / -0

I live within 45 mins of the worlds newest nuclear power plant in South Carolina at Plant Vogtle. I sleep soundly knowing I got nuclear power.

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Diotima 8 points ago +8 / -0

Indeed... i live very close to the GA border I can be in augusta in 20 mins.

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spaceforce_maganaut 7 points ago +7 / -0

Haha dONt CrOSs StATe LiNeS

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nachosamplerREBORN 10 points ago +10 / -0

Not an expert, but I’ve read about huge advancements in gen4 nuclear power - virtually impossible anything could go wrong with so many failsafes. No emissions. 100% green and the only solution that could replace fossil fuels, aside perhaps, from hydroelectrics which can’t be implemented everywhere.

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MAGAMAN4EVA 4 points ago +4 / -0

The only problem is the old stupid designs that's still run today because they can't build new ones.

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Diotima 4 points ago +4 / -0

The science is highly understood and regulated. The only problem is the waste it leaves and the politicization of where to store it (Yucca Mt). This results in some waste being stored at WIPP and most of it being stored in storage pools on site.

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nachosamplerREBORN 11 points ago +11 / -0

Toxic waste is a byproduct of nearly all modern production but many think it’s only associated with nuclear energy because they envision the barrels with the symbol on them. GenIV is introducing technology to produce far less waste and in many case consume the waste - for example Molten salt reactors.

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Panzershrekt 7 points ago +7 / -0

With Thorium, there will be waste, but it will have a MUCH shorter half-life.

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nachosamplerREBORN 1 point ago +1 / -0

NIMBY is partially responsible for this - so poor land is the only option.

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NavyGuy 8 points ago +8 / -0

gender is infinite you fucking nazi!

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Bunny 23 points ago +23 / -0

We've had nuclear reactors on aircraft carriers for decades and it's been safe, but they forget that I guess. They do hate the military afterall. And that's with the Navy watching it.. I mean, come on.. :)

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NACAM 8 points ago +8 / -0

Meanwhile the US navy has literally never had a nuclear power accident.

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Defender110 9 points ago +9 / -0

California has been voting left for decades. They had a supermajority since the Reagan era. Obama subsidized green energy. Despite all this, they still do not have a working solution.

Yes, it's a joke.

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CmonPeopleGetReal 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's not about "saving the planet" it's about controlling your lives, submitting to their authority.

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InarosPrime 12 points ago +12 / -0

I did a study on the sustainability of nuclear power, assuming meltdowns would cause the same level of devastation as Chernobyl. Assuming the entire world uses nuclear for everything, it would still be the safest for humans, and lowest impact on the environment. That ignores newer, safer, meltdown-proof designs.

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Joeret 32 points ago +32 / -0

This is so California. This state virtue signals so hard it creates solar power just so they can say they produce solar power.

They end up PAYING other states like Arizona to take excess created solar electricity because they don’t have a grid that can handle it.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-solar/

So instead of building a grid that can handle the output California just builds more solar panels and then pays other states to use the electricity while their citizens are told to turn off appliances.

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NavyGuy 4 points ago +4 / -0

fucking insanity.

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GeauxTrump20 28 points ago +28 / -0

I bet Nancy is not cutting back on power.

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Darkheartisland 7 points ago +7 / -0

Gotta keep those $10 pints of ice cream cold in case there is another pandemic.

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AlphaNathan 3 points ago +3 / -0

You may have just invented a meme

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chickensoup 26 points ago +26 / -0

I wonder how many elderly and other vulnerables will die because of this man's leftist policies.

Almost like leftists leaders nationally want the elderly dead.

Cuomo, Werner deblasio, the portland and Oregon clowns....the beat goes on....

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Walbort 12 points ago +12 / -0

Ah, yes. COVID-19.

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hit_backspace 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's their Solution to the growing elderly population. Significant taxpayers are all leaving their cities so the states don't have enough money to take care of the elderly in the future. So they are just going to kill them off.

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SpezDispenser 17 points ago +17 / -0

Yea its plastered all over electronic billboards here. "Please conserve between 3-9pm." I understand unnecessary appliances, but if they think im not cranking both ACs and multi fans, they can fuck themselves.

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CurvedLightsaber 12 points ago +12 / -0

I live in TX where the temp regularly gets that high and have never been asked to conserve power. That's something I'd expect of a 3rd world shithole with poor infrastructure.

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Sum_devil 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good thing about this is it won't stay hot for long. You can bet if they had the option, they'd try to make this mandate as divisive as the masks. Creating the Karen squads to tattle tale on people who aren't power their ac down. sending out the crews to shut off the power.

These mayors have lost their minds following orders to treat their citizens like animals.

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TrumpVictorious 2 points ago +2 / -0

More likely solution is that they will mandate “smart” Internet-enabled thermostats that shut themselves off when there is a shortage. If you over ride the shit down, they charge you 2x as much for the power.

Many locales already offer incentives to sign up your “smart” thermostat with the local power company.

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Peppers 14 points ago +14 / -0

If you live in Cali, better get a nice diesel generator.

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NavyGuy 3 points ago +3 / -0

My thinking exactly! 💯% AGREE!👍

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lilree 11 points ago +11 / -0

It's a sad state of affairs when running the AC makes you a political accelerationist.

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Azarak 11 points ago +11 / -0

When the CA governor and legislature give priority to hand out money and benefits to illegal aliens instead of upgrading the electricity grid or developing nuclear power, you get what you voted for.

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AngelMark 10 points ago +10 / -0

Reminds me of our summers in Wildwood in the 70s n 80s. My grandparents refused to buy a.c. units and all we had all summer were fans! 😆

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Fuchtard 10 points ago +10 / -0

I’ve got a friend out there that pays 30 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity! That’s over 3 times the rate in many states. They should have plenty of money to build better infrastructure.

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Ballind 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's not private when they have govt banking and authority.

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spacecoyote 3 points ago +3 / -0

A private company runs the grid where I live. They do a damn good job...probably because they're not run by idiotic leeches and realize that better quality and more efficiency equals more money in the long run.

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AKGG 8 points ago +8 / -0

I wonder if it’s the 250 fires burning causing the heat wave

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Mehockmehogan 6 points ago +6 / -0

There are commies in Venezuela that don’t have Air Conditioning right now. Think of them and turn off your fans.

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GeneticsGuy 5 points ago +5 / -0

People in California pay 5x the national average for electricity AND they have blackouts because they voted to dismantle nuclear energy and ban natural gas power plants... Natural gas isn't even a pollutant like fossil fuels.

So, they get almost all their power from renewable sources... and apparently California has a power deficit of what would be solved with 3 to 4 power plants across their state, but they refuse to expand.

It's said they use more electricity per capita in Florida than they do in California, but power is far cheaper and no fear of rolling blackouts. Why? Well, the problem isn't the inability to provide power. The problem is people voting in stupid laws and electing idiotic politicians.

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GeneticsGuy 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's how it is all over the country. They are almost ALL managed by private companies. So, why is California's so terrible? It's because as a utility, even though it is a private company, it is micromanaged through local regulations of their government. California micromanages their power companies more than anywhere else in the country, and they refuse to do more to expand the state's needs.

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GeneticsGuy 1 point ago +1 / -0

No one in the country has these issues except for California. In other words, California has problems. It has nothing to do with private vs coop. The only thing unique to California's situation is California anti-energy laws.

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maximus_galt3 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's a monopoly. They don't have to care about their reputation, that's the problem. That, and they aren't allowed to make rational decisions, because there is too much irrational government over-regulation (e.g. environmentalist wackos).

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123breadman 3 points ago +3 / -0

It won't work. They want to live like in the middle east.

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blindambition 4 points ago +4 / -0

Shut the commoners power down, so the elite do not get inconvenienced...

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Darkheartisland 1 point ago +1 / -0

Funny how they never shut down power in 90210.

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Gmama2 3 points ago +3 / -0

I wonder how many gas powered generators Nancy has running at her mansion, because green energy.

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AlphaNathan 2 points ago +2 / -0

Lol probably keeps most of her ice cream stash in a datacenter

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MapleBaconWaffles 3 points ago +3 / -0

Why not just have Nasty Nancy Pelosi open the doors on her $24,000 refrigerator?

Well you see...

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Magus_Strife 3 points ago +3 / -0

My parents have solar, so they are being charged TRIPLE rates during 3-10PM. They live in one of the hottest areas in Cali.

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Magus_Strife 3 points ago +3 / -0

They aren't 100% solar powered, so anything they pull from the grid is 3 times as expensive. Since the solar can't power AC at times like these... it's just a way to punish anyone that is responsible or found a way to pay less money to the city/state/pet energy company.

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Gatsby2x4 3 points ago +3 / -0

At what temperature does California turn into actual hell? 🔥👹🔥

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Airvehicle2 3 points ago +3 / -0

Really? 121 degrees?

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americanwolf 2 points ago +2 / -0

Global warming never made me happier. Maybe California will fall off into the ocean next.

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123breadman 2 points ago +2 / -0

Luckily most blue voters are in the city. The red voters would outnumber them after the cities get wiped out.

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WopNine17plus1 2 points ago +2 / -0

commies are stupid.

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tonightm16 2 points ago +2 / -0

At the end of the day, they just don't give a fuck. Do you think Stalin cared when people out in the countryside were dying in the millions of starvation? If Mao Zedong cared when the same thing was happening during The Great Leap Forward "program". That Hilter cared when he sent millions of people to the ovens and mass graves?

They don't care about you. Even if you call yourself a socialist. As at the end of the day you are a lower class of person.

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HistoryInvestigator 2 points ago +2 / -0

If you're in Los Angeles or CA and tired of this shit and know others who are too, get them to register to vote! Lots of passionate Trump supporters are not registered, do it today:

https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote#item-212645

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Sum_devil 2 points ago +2 / -0

I bet the mayor won't show the thermostat in his house. Pulling a ole nancy pelosi and staying nice and cool i bet.

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123breadman 1 point ago +1 / -0

They want their loyal democrat voters to conserve energy. This way politicians can spend it behind their gated communities.

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Helly 2 points ago +2 / -0

Welcome to the start of socialism, this is the same stuff they tell the people in Cuba. They always try to excuse their ineptitude

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CALI_MAGA_MAMA 2 points ago +2 / -0

Last heatwave a couple of weeks ago, i lost power twice! In the heat of the day and couldn't even have the fan on my babies!! I dont even have ac in the first place. Monsters.

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CALI_MAGA_MAMA 1 point ago +1 / -0

Family. 6 generations. The whole extended family, both sides. All MAGA. Also stubborness. Can't bear to let our home be taken from us. I wish people could understand that. =/

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CALI_MAGA_MAMA 2 points ago +2 / -0

There are more conservatives in cali than any other state. Believe the stories of voter fraud, motor voter laws, jungle primaries, ballot harvesting. They will try to pull this off in the national election. Trump managed to load our courts with conservative judges so we are finally seeing some pushback against the insano leftist policies. Praying daddy Trump will help us make california america again. Don't give up the ship!

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CALI_MAGA_MAMA 1 point ago +1 / -0

THIS. thank you! Will be sharing!

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inspir3dgenius 2 points ago +2 / -0

Let them heat cake

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remember1776 2 points ago +2 / -0

Is that what they do in neighboring NV & AZ? Turn off their ACs after 3 PM? Must be steaming time at the Bellagio.

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remember1776 2 points ago +2 / -0

Lol what a bunch of disgusting Democrat failures.

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maximus_galt3 2 points ago +2 / -0

Do Californians know that it is highly abnormal in the rest of the country (and used to be abnormal in CA) to have "brown-outs" and "black-outs"?

The (thoroughly mediocre) electric utility in my area had 41 minutes downtime for the average customer last year. That only occurred during extreme weather events with lightning and high winds.

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ChronoShaman 2 points ago +2 / -0

As the rats get exposed, they will push more CONTROL.

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Meddlesom 2 points ago +2 / -0

AC for me but not for thee!

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TheMutualist 2 points ago +2 / -0

Fun fact: keeping the fridge door open would actually make the room warmer because the radiated heat from the electrical and mechanical systems.

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SirPokeSmottington 1 point ago +2 / -1

Nobody will see this, but...

This is essentially fake news... sure LA County MAY have hit that temp, but LA County doesn't end at the San Gabriel mountains, it extends WAY inland to the desert, and yeah, of fucking course the desert gets hot in a La Nina year.

*edit, I looked at every weather station in Woodland Hills, nothing over 114° (Where it supposedly happened). The same with the desert. They are lying to push an agenda.