The mayor of Los Angeles instructed residents of his city to turn off their air conditioning and major appliances on what may have been the hottest day in the city’s history on Sunday. The demand to limit electricity use is similar to what occurs in third world countries, where the public loses access to power for large sections of the day because existing energy systems are insufficient to provide amenities such as air conditioning.
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Double you tee eff. Are you telling me that wind and solar power ain't keeping up with demand?
ReplyDeleteGood luck surviving in your home with 100F+ outside temps and no AC. I was looking at a temp map yesterday afternoon. Parts of central CA were 105F and higher. Between the heat and the fires, not a good place to be right now.
ReplyDeleteNemo
And yet, the loonies in CA keep electing the loonies who have made CA a shithole. WTF?
ReplyDeleteWoodland Hills was 121° on Sunday It was the hottest ever recorded temperature in Los Angeles county !
ReplyDeleteDamn it was only 113° where I live
Go fuck yourself Eric Garcetti ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Don't worry all the people who die from heat exhaustion from lack of electricity will be counted as covid deaths.
ReplyDeleteExile1981
LOL! probably true. After all Gov. Nuisance needs to scam more bailout money from fed .gov
DeleteNemo
I wonder if this edict applies to Nancy's hair salon?
ReplyDeleteWhy do liberal elites and Hollywood trash hate the poor and elderly? The socialist policies they have enacted in California increase the cost of living to the point where the homeless population has exploded. Solar & wind are unreliable and most importantly expensive (neither will during its lifetime generate enough energy to make itself. More energy is consumed in refining sand to silicon, ore to aluminum and steel than the system will ever deliver). The cost of energy isn’t an issue to someone making $5 Million a year but is to those on Social Security, Disability and Welfare.
ReplyDeleteYet those same people aren’t educated enough to vote for change, sad state of affairs.
It is true that solar and wind are both extremely expensive.
DeleteIt is also true that both generate intermittently.
It is also true that both have other flaws which you have not mentioned.
However...
It is not true that they are unreliable, if the system was originally properly designed to take intermittent generation (darkness, cloud cover, windless days, etc.) into account. (California has not done this, but many other places have successfully designed systems that work.)
And it is also not true that 'neither will generate enough energy to make itself during its lifetime'. (I have previously analyzed the numbers behind that claim, and they are based on deeply flawed assumptions.)
I agree with the rest of your comment.
More proof that solar/wind only work at point of use. These over educated/0 learning morons set up solar panels on their homes without having a battery bank. Free power to the Electric Company and no back up power for the house.
ReplyDeleteCruachan!
How much do you want to bet L.A. City Hall and hizzoner's office are both cool as a cucumber this week.
ReplyDeleteWell, if you worked there, would YOU want the typhus infected rats to be hot and angry?
DeleteMayors bleed out and die just like anyone else when hit with lead & copper
ReplyDeleteBecause the libtards in CA are afraid to pump out more greenhouse gasses, or are afraid of nuclear (which, if done right is the cleanest and safest energy source), they will suffer the rolling brownouts and occasional blackout during the times of peak demand, usually coinciding with the hottest days.
ReplyDeleteIn France, a majority of the electricity is generated using nuclear. Canada also has a very high percentage. Their secret is that all the reactors are the same, so if there is a fault found in one,it gets fixed in all of them at the same time.
The TVA in Tennessee does a very good job at generating electricity, and its customers have the cheapest electric rates in the country, by far. Wire cutter, how much do you pay per Killowatt hour? In NYC it sis above twenty cent.
WC pays between 10 and 11 cents per KwH. My Tier 1 PG&E rate is 23.6 cents, Tier 2 is almost 28 cents. In summertime Tier 2 can't be avoided unless you don't use your A/C or water your yard (we're on a well).
DeleteI'm guessing our power bill this month will be between $350 and $400.
And the TVA was cheap and may still because of Algore's dad, the epa never touched the pollution issue there. The yellow smoke clouds would drift down the TN River into the Mississippi River and then continue into the Gulf of Texas (we won) and then it would blow back ashore around Corpus Christi. Yellow skies as far as you could see into the Gulf. And you know what the epa would do at that point? The epa would cite Corpus for having a polluted air day. I really would like to see everyone who has ever worked at the epa hang.
DeleteI found it funny, that the article compared LA to a third world country. I thought LA WAS a third world country.
ReplyDeletepigpen51
There are lots of places in and around LA that smell like Mexico after a rain.
DeleteLooks like their "green" plan didn't work out so well in practice. They would be able to keep the lights on had they not "retired" those natural gas-powered plants!
ReplyDeleteAnd they shut down the nuke plant in Devils Canyon didn't they? My people helped build that in the 80's. It should have lasted for 50 years, no?
DeleteFuck Kalifornia! Into the ocean with it
ReplyDeleteWhere's little Greta when we need her?
ReplyDeletePlease tell me, did the mayor of Los Angeles turn off his air conditioner to save energy?
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