AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
You could in the sixties and seventies, With traffic like it is now that's impossible. Maybe if you went to Mountain High at dawn for an hour and the beach an hour before sunset you could manage it, but you'd spend most of your day sitting in your car in massive traffic jams on the freeway. I spent most of my life in So Cal and I watched the quality of life disintegrate due to uncontrolled population growth and traffic. When I graduated from HS in 1970 I could drive from my house near downtown to San Diego in a little over an hour, in 2010, the last time I made the trip, it took four hours to get from LAX to San Diego on the 405/5.Every day is a good day in California. I can go snowboarding and to the beach in one day.Californians call it s good day when they have electricity.In the past five years, in order to protect the environment, California has shut down 9,000 MW of natural gas capacity – enough to power 6.8 million homes.
Source:
The Day California Went Dark Was a Crisis Years in the Making
(Bloomberg) -- Signs of a problem within California’s power system emerged a full day before the blackouts hit.Trader Dov Quint sat in his basement outside Boulder, Colorado, scouring the state’s day-ahead power market for opportunities to profit from California’s heat wave. He saw something...finance.yahoo.com
California is also in the process of shutting down all of its nuclear reactors. The last one is scheduled to be shut down in 2025.
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Diablo Canyon Power Plant - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Wind power doesn't work when the wind isn't blowing.
Solar power doesn't work when the sun isn't shining.
"Wind power doesn't work when the wind isn't blowing.
Solar power doesn't work when the sun isn't shining."
I'm guessing by these statements you dont quite get how it all works? You do know they store that energy right? For example. I have a solar powered camera on my patio. When the sun isnt shining it still works. isnt that amazing?