JUST THE NEWS: Recent rolling energy blackouts in California are due at least in part to the state’s self-imposed dependency on renewable energy sources, according to industry leaders and a top state assemblyman. The situation has left the Golden State struggling to meet demand amid an ongoing heat wave that continues to strain power grids increasingly dependent on solar and wind.
The blackouts, which occurred late last week and which state officials warn may continue in the weeks ahead, left at least hundreds of thousands of state residents without power for hours. Gov. Gavin Newsom warned this week that further outages could soon put millions more out of power for indeterminate amounts of time. MORE
Solyndra!
Not really much of a problem though. They can light California by burning cities.
Renewable Blackouts…
The problem is nation wide. Issues like this occur when you continue to elect people that have no practical experience doing anything but yet constantly think they are the smartest ones in the room and are capable of running your life for you. I think the common name for these useless assholes is Attorney.
Bless their hearts
They don’t need no stinking bird shredders, they can work by the fire of the state.
Communism: taking industrialized nations back to the stone age for 100 years!
Gov Witless is trying to come up with a way to institute rolling blackouts here in MI. After all, if other state D Governors do it, she must, too. Extremely witless.
The Green New Deal will put us all in California’s predicament. No thank you.
Claudia
Us conspiracy theorist that live in this state have theorized our State Nazis want control of the utility Companies and total control of the grid. Ask the mayor of LA why. He’s already doing it.
Renewable energy is about as reliable as the limp wristed government in Sucksramento.
Bad_Brad – Just remember that 95% of the Lawyers give the rest of ’em a bad name! If this country ever does manage a so-called “reset” let’s hope let’s hope the Lawyers are the first ones to feel the pain and that FDR sends Shakespeare the memo!
I am “shocked” at the “current” situation. This “shines some light” California’s green blunders and I am “energized” to get more info that I can “power” through. This has “sparked” my curiosity and I am “amped” to learn more. Hopefully there is little “resistance”to my study.
@Huron — Oy gevolt!
@Bad_Brad:
Alternately, the common name for these useless attorneys is Asshole. (-:
Uncle Al
I’m waiting for someone to sponsor a bill making it illegal for attorneys to run for office. How great would that be?
@Bad_Brad — That would be wonderful! The only problem is the high proportion of elected officials who are lawyers. )-:
Needs constitutional amendments, both state and feddle. Or initiatives where part of the system.
@ Bad_Brad August 21, 2020 at 7:25 pm,
But but but but but….how can you expect the unwashed to be able to enact law?
It ain’t ready yet and may never
be ready…
The toxic chemicals used for solar panels
is getting harder to find and mine.Wind turbines
wear out and are expensive to maintain/rebuild.
Green energy is a UNICORN FART! You hear that
little girl Sandy Cortex ???
It’s easy to figure what happened to cause the blackouts. The windmills slow down while chopping up flocks of migrating birds thereby dropping their electric power output.
Maybe eliminating ‘money’ and going back to the ‘barter system’ would put us back on a ‘fair’ and ‘equitable’ way to do business.
TRF
“Just remember that 95% of the Lawyers give the rest of ’em a bad name!”
Lol, I’m stealing that brother.
Germany had the same problem with their go green and freeze
plan over the past several years. They actually kicked
people out of their powerless homes in areas where the problem was bad enough to do so.
California smoke is obscuring nearby states’ nighttime sky. My lawnmower is EPA regulated to run at 2600 RPM instead of 3200 RPM to meet goverment emissions standards. Lawnmowers never did obscure the stars. If you collect a government paycheck you are a fucking idiot. WTF??
And the democrat dipshits are doubling down on “renewable energy” as usual.
Remember liberals used electricity before candles😁
“Oh – you wanted a reliable source of energy?”