What do the politicos in Sacramento think is going to pick up the slack?
L.A. Times (5/18/21) reports: "The twin reactors along California’s Central Coast were nearing completion, and tens of thousands of people had gathered to protest. It was 1979, just months after a partial nuclear meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, and a young Jerry Brown — serving his first stint as California governor — earned a standing ovation when he declared, 'No on Diablo Canyon.' Four decades later, Pacific Gas & Electric is finally preparing to shut the nuclear power plant...The plant is California’s largest power source, generating nearly 6% of the state’s electricity in 2019. That energy is emissions-free, meaning it doesn’t produce planet-warming greenhouse gases or lung-scarring air pollutants. And unlike solar panels and wind turbines, Diablo Canyon can make electricity around the clock, regardless of the weather — a key attribute for a state that suffered brief rolling blackouts last summer. But with just three years until the plant begins to power down, California has no plan to directly replace it. That’s despite a state law, overwhelmingly approved by the Legislature and signed by Brown, ordering regulators to 'avoid any increase in emissions of greenhouse gases' as a result of Diablo’s closure."
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“Maybe people will one day flee New York because of climate change — right now, they are fleeing it because of crime, anarchy, filth, dysfunction, and the policies of Bill de Blasio, who, like so many of his ilk, manages to be heavy-handed even as he causes chaos. Mayor de Blasio would rather talk about the average temperature 80 years from now than, say, Manhattan vacancy rates today, and what those tell us about his governance.”
– Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review
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