Red Mosquito

simple schoolboy wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Looks like Washington and Massachusetts are jumping on the no-new-gas-cars after 2035 thing too.


You'd think after watching CA spend $5B over 14 years to build exactly zero miles of functional high speed rail service that other states might not be so quick to follow their lead on massive infrastructure spends.

If there were a state level initiative to gut CEQA or subsidize battery production it would make some sense, but after the shitshow we've seen in Europe with Energy prices, we're locking ourselves into a dependency on China for basic transportation/ infrastructure. Keeping Diablo Canyon open is not sufficient either, need to build new nuke plants if household electricity demand is going to significantly increase.

Bi_3 wrote:This definitely a sign they are ready to ban the sale of new ICE cars in the next 12 years.

96583UP wrote:apparently california's reserve batteries kick in based on energy price thresholds, not energy demand thresholds

so they kicked in too early recently and almost brought down the grid

great work, guys

simple schoolboy wrote:

96583UP wrote:apparently california's reserve batteries kick in based on energy price thresholds, not energy demand thresholds

so they kicked in too early recently and almost brought down the grid

great work, guys

Reserve batteries? Do you have a link?

Almost all on demand energy sources are petroleum based or sourced from outside the state.

96583UP wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

96583UP wrote:apparently california's reserve batteries kick in based on energy price thresholds, not energy demand thresholds

so they kicked in too early recently and almost brought down the grid

great work, guys

Reserve batteries? Do you have a link?

Almost all on demand energy sources are petroleum based or sourced from outside the state.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -emergency

Bi_3 wrote:Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open

4/5 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open

What's wrong with that?

Bi_3 wrote:

4/5 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open

What's wrong with that?

Nothing, it's an eye roll because she was instrumental in getting Germany to shut them down in the first place and it took the tragedy in UKR for her to realize (or at least publicly admit) that a bridge technology is needed between coal and *magic fairy dust* and the obvious choice is nuclear.

4/5 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

4/5 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open

What's wrong with that?

Nothing, it's an eye roll because she was instrumental in getting Germany to shut them down in the first place and it took the tragedy in UKR for her to realize (or at least publicly admit) that a bridge technology is needed between coal and *magic fairy dust* and the obvious choice is nuclear.

Okay gotcha. I didn’t know that. Funny how so many people reflexively oppose a clean zero-emission efficient fuel source. Maybe we should all be more like France on this one thing.