It’s been a strange year for California. They had to admit that cleaning up the forests might cut down on Forest fires or thier severity. And now they are building gas-fired power plants to prevent the blackouts that result from relying on too much of that Green* energy.
California plans to build five temporary natural gas plants to prevent blackouts and one of those plants will be in Fresno County, according to a local lawmaker.
The Department of Water Resources will install five natural gas plant generators at three powerplants in the state, according to the office of Jim Patterson, R-Fresno.
A total of $171.5 million has already been allocated for the implementation, according to the California Department of Finance.
The word temporary is itself temporary. I think they added it so the green machine candidates could support it without too much blowback from the intolerable Environmentalists.
It’s still a reality sandwich. A slap in the face.
Their green dream is not only not green, it is impossible. A modern society cannot run on wind and solar alone. You have to have a lot of gas-powered backups, and even that is a sketchy proposition before adding millions of electric vehicles.
Temporary in this context means “permanent.”
The total projected capacity for these five plants is 150 MW which may also be temporary.
The grid can’t grow to meet demand if these are add-ons to address peak/demand issues. That demand is only going to grow. The band-aid does nothing to address future energy needs. I doubt they even address current needs.
These plants have to be forever and then some. As in more of them, unless residents manage to elect some people who understand what is needed.
The electric-dream, fantasy, mythology, whatever drug-induced haze fits as a good description for what they promise cannot be fulfilled by windmills or solar panels. There isn’t enough surface area to crowd with these nasty things.
Related: Northeast ‘Energy Policy’ – How About Freezing to Death My Pretties….
You will need nuclear power (which is CO2-free energy, btw if you care) and a bunch of them.
And changing governor’s isn’t going to make that happen. You will need a legislature that will back it and a federal government with fewer Democrats as well.
Five natural-gas-fired plants is a good start. We could use a few of those here in Northern New England and the pipelines to get gas to them, but like California, the Left rises to the occasion.
They say they don’t want to live in caves, but what they want will land us all there if we don’t (here in New England) freeze to death first.
And New Hampshire Dems love California’s lead but probably not this one.
