With recent legislation limiting the lifetime of California’s last remaining nuclear power plant to eight more years, the debate about replacement power has once again been thrust to the forefront of environmental concerns: will higher emissions after the shutdown of Diablo Canyon doom California’s efforts to meet climate targets?
Though generating electricity with nuclear power produces no CO2, California agencies believe the answer is “no.” Every five years the California Air Resources Board (CARB) develops a plan to determine what sources will be needed to deliver clean electricity to 30 million customers. And though California has set ambitious carbon reduction targets for 2030 and 2045, the only sources which qualify in CARB’s Scoping Plan fall under the arbitrary category of “renewable” energy. They include energy from solar panels, wind turbines, burning biomass (chipped lumber), and geothermal wells, but inexplicably neglect nuclear and hydroelectricity, which are actually America’s two largest sources of clean energy.
In 2016, when PG&E announced its decision close Diablo Canyon, the news was met with elation from large environmental groups. Calling the decision “historic”, the Natural Resources Defense Council was ebullient. “It is the first time any utility owner has committed to a plan to replace retiring nuclear generation with 100 percent, zero-emissions, clean electricity-generating [renewable] resources that are also lower cost,” read one press release. However, similar promises were never kept when California’s other nuclear plant, San Onofre, was closed in 2012. Its output was replaced by electricity from gas-fired power plants, driving state CO2 emissions 35% higher. MORE
But, but, closing all the nuclear power plants has worked out so well for the Germans :/
Replacing Conventional Power Sources with Renewables ‘Can’t Be Done’
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Well, I guess it’s back to the stone age, then.
LOL, I will guarantee you these idiots are not considering we are all suppose to be driving electric cars in 5 years.
When have they ever made any sense??
They WILL start BURNING TREES in the HUGE Co-Generation SCAM.
Watch: Planet of The Humans – by FAT ASSHOLE Michael Moore.
He actually did make 1 acceptable movie but the Lefties Hated it.
Newsome knows that, that’s why he asked PG&E to not close Diablo Canyon last summer – we don’t have the power otherwise. DUH!
No, the problem is it CAN be done. And probably will be done.
With disastrous results.
Brad
JANUARY 29, 2023 AT 2:48 PM
“LOL, I will guarantee you these idiots are not considering we are all suppose to be driving electric cars in 5 years.”
…no, we’re all supposed to be dead.
Everything else is just a story they tell while they kill us.
Will these idiots ever learn that you can’t replace sommething with nothing.
They’re not idiots – they’re power (heh heh) mad, greedy, scamming totalitarians who know that the US runs on energy.
They also KNOW that the Globaloney Bullshit Climate Scam is a SCAM!
Two-fold issue – how to destroy America (1) and leave her helpless, cold, hungry, afraid, diseased, and immobile (2).
THEY are winning – America is losing.
With the Electoral Process completely sabotaged, rampant corruption in BOTH Houses of Congress AND the White Hut, the Agencies filled with Traitors, and the Armed Forces directed by greedy, Traitorous perverts, the way out is dim.
CA is the test-tube – a petri dish of perversion, Satanism, mendacity, and insanity.
What works there spreads like a plague.
America has two hopes – God and America’s patriots doing God’s will.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“CA is the test-tube”
Well if that’s the case get ready for your utility bill to go north of 1K a month. That’s where mine at.
My home was built in 1785. I have old photos that show no power lines going to the house. Horse and buggy out front. I know there was no insulation in the walls. No, running water. Well house, well 33 feet deep. Also out back a outhouse. No chain saws, no log spliters. Looks like they, the current powers to be, want us to travel back in time, stay busy, die early and pay taxes for BS krap in other countries.
I still cannot get over the $100+++ Billion wasted in Ukie land in 1 year. Does anyone really get what a waste that is? I prefer to write it as $100,000 Million. 1/10 of a Trillion.
And Hydro power is God’s power. Nothing better or cleaner. Our Hoover Dam is a cool 2 Gigawatts, same as Diablo canyon fill blast.
Save your feces. You’re going to be burning it to keep warm.
Self-defense is a legal justification for homicide.