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California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
Ricci.Wright
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California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
HAHAHAHAHA These idiots will be living in caves in another 20 years and still voting for democraps. Using stone tablets.
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no they will steal from the grid and you will see black outs
Not from me.
[sarc]And they never saw that coming.[\sarc]
Kansas is right behind them. I think they are going to shut down all of our newly renovated, environmentally clean, emission scrubbed coal fired energy plants in 2 years (if I remember correctly). They can't make up for that. They are putting up wind turbines every day. But most of the electricity from them is sold out of state!
I see a texas electric disaster happening here twice a month in the winter time.
Just wait til they go all electric vehicles in a few years just like here in Washington. It’s going to be a nightmare.
We had what was touted as the second cleanest coal fired power plant in the world...It was leveled and the clean up is still ongoing...Allot of folks lost there jobs at the plant and the local coal mine...Very sad!!!
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
Guess why natural and propane gas prices are skyrocketing?
Let's just shut down all the coal fired power plants and coal mines.
Rolling brown and black outs will be the norm in the near future.
Guess what, we are most likely getting more pollution from coal fired operations in other countries than ever.
Maybe the worthless windbags in Sacramento can blow on a windmill.
If the flow of hot air from politicians can be harnessed, electricity will be free!!! 😂
The transmission lines leaving D.C. would make Hoover Dam's look like spider webs.
guess they could start burning all that poop the homeless leave on the sidewalks..........
Would the last person leaving California please shut the lights off?
what about their electric cars
I have a feeling the lights will be off before the last person leaves.....
DEMOCRATs and SOCIALISM: No difference.
Don't forget they banned all new small gas engines after 2024.
If only stupidity was painful.
It often is for those around them.
I'm sure that the libtard gov't from Oregon would be more than happy to send them some power, so that even more people can have some brown outs... Can't wait to leave this place..
"They" have absolutely NO idea of the meaning of The First Law Of Thermodynamics..........and still wouldn't, if it was carefully explained to "them".
Heck.......they probably think of electric cars as some sort of perpetual motion machine.......and that the electricity used to power them, was created by "The Force".
My $0.02....again.
It was planned this way.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
...Left Coast morons...I guess the good fairies in San Fran-Freako can just crap the electricity they need, idiots... I cannot even imagine living in that God forsaken state...maybe the northern states that get caught up in this greenie "think", that regularly have bad winters like what we had last winter will go to wind turbines, hell, the turbines we had froze up, some type of electric valves on the natural gas lines failed from the cold, a BIG mess, it all bit a big one...fireplace , made it livable here...
worst part is the companies WILL cave to them, they don't have the balls to stand up and say fine, we won't sell to you then. becausd they are afraid the rest of the crazy woke liberals, in seattle and other places will also start a boycott of the company, because they boycott crazyfornia...........
Sorry to dredge up this old thread......but the attachment helps make my previous point.
Enjoy......
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/energy-resource/2022/01/17/regulator-ends-safety-case-against-panhandle-wind-farm-operator-panhandle-renewable-energy/9159965002/
it would be so sad to read Kal broke off and sank into the ocean 🤐
I'll let other countries get in on the act........
Enjoy
They should have built it indoors where it would be safe.
And nobody thinks that straight down a few thousand feet is all the energy we could ever want.
1) Drill a hole
2) Send down cool water
3) Bring back a hot steam pipe
4) Turn a turbine
5) Send the cool water back down.
Geothermal is done in many places around the globe. Iceland, Hawaii, and California, etc
Has to be in the right spot to work, maybe Alaska should poke around Redoubt or one of the others on the other side of the Inlet.
i think they should do a couple exploratory just outside Yellowstone Park, near what’s called Island Park in Idaho to see if geothermal electric would be feasible there.
Mule
As Mule knows, there are geothermal plants all over the West. There's one right alongside I-80 in Nevada. Utah has scads of hot springs sitting over potential geothermal sites.
Interesting that you guys should mention it.........
I've had a 5 ton geothermal heat pump system, by WaterFurnace, on my house since 2004......works pretty well.
The drilling rig crew drew quite a crowd of neighbors, when they drilled five 250 foot holes in my front yard. Note that my 2200 square foot house sits on about a half acre.
Works great on really hot, or cold, days.
Mule
When we built our house in 2001 we had an open-loop geothermal system installed. After about a year I installed peel and stick insulation on all the main lines in the basement. That alone brought the temperature out of the register from 86° up to 93°. We've been pretty happy with it so far.
The only real issue is that our pressure tanks don't last more than about 5 years. I've only had to replace the run capacitor in the furnace itself, so that's not too bad.
In 2005 when we had the ice storm, our electricity was out for 7 days. We had to use our fireplace for heat, and the generator we had at the time had enough power to run the furnace fan to (kind of) heat the house. Since then we've upgraded to a whole house generator that will run everything, as long as you don't turn it all on at once.
Curious, how deep is your well, in excess of 150’?
Mule
If I remember right it's 49' with a flow rate of 65 gals per min. It's good water. We had an RO system installed expecting some issues with the water. Many times I've had water right out of the tap and I can't tell the difference between the two.
Joe
It just sunk in why you may have asked that question. We aren't extracting heat out of the well. It stays about 55° year around. The furnace extracts the heat out of the water just like an air to air heat pump. Then it reverses that in the summer to give up cold air.
If I misunderstood your question, I apologize.
We have the same system And have been pretty happy with it. A lot of people get a confused look on their face when I tell them we are heating the house with our well water. They don't understand that the density of water holds a lot more heat than air does and extracting that heat can raise the air temp in the house quite effectively. Also in the summer the water is much more efficient in removing the heat from the cooling system than air would be. 8° below zero this morning and we are nice and warm. We haven't taken the plunge for the whole house generator yet but it is on the horizon. We have a fireplace in the basement with a separate fan and ductwork that can be used in emergencies and my 7000 watt portable generator can handle that along with the freezer, refrigerator, etc.. But a whole house generator would be a lot more convenient. I guess Judy just hasn't nagged me enough about getting me one yet.🙄 Bob