This long distance dedication goes out to all those Californians who long for the days when they didn't have to worry about losing their power. Someday you'll have sane politicians again. In the meantime, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
Wall Street Journal (9/8/24) opinion: "Summer ain’t over in California until the lights go out. A one-hour power outage kicked off my Labor Day weekend. My sister, who lives 15 minutes away, had it worse: Her home lost electricity for nearly a day. On Friday folks across the state lost power with nearly 130 outages in the city of Los Angeles alone. Such is life in California. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blamed Friday’s outages on 'extreme heat.' The real culprit: the state’s climate policies. As the Golden State plunges into darkness, the rest of the country could follow. Democrats in Sacramento last year scrambled to keep open the state’s only active nuclear plant and several aging natural-gas plants to prevent power shortages. But their drive to power all things with green energy is straining the grid and people’s pocketbooks to a breaking point. As the Los Angeles Times documented last month, power surges are causing the Port of Los Angeles—which handles 16% of the country’s international seaborne cargo—to experience momentary losses of electricity. That has disrupted operations, delayed port traffic and caused accidents. Thanks to one outage this summer, a driverless cargo truck crashed into a container. The risk of power surges increases as more devices plug into the grid. This can overload local distribution systems, in the same way that too many power-guzzling appliances can fry a home circuit. That hasn’t deterred the L.A. port from seeking to make all equipment 'zero emission' by 2030, or the state from mandating electric trucks and forcing ships to plug into the grid. California’s utilities are spending heavily to upgrade power systems to accommodate more electric vehicles and intermittent green energy. Unlike nuclear and fossil-fuel plants, solar and wind don’t produce constant power at a steady frequency. High levels of renewable penetration can therefore make the grid less stable."
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"While U.S. emissions peaked in 2007, global emissions are rising, due in part to increased pollution from China and India. Despite the futility, cost, and potential danger of addressing global warming with emissions reductions in the U.S., 23 states and the District of Columbia have set 100% renewable energy goals. Many Americans may be shivering in the dark before these policies are reconsidered."
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– Kevin Killough, Just the News
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