Do Californians sweat? Rolling blackouts

[Dean Hoffman]

It has been 19 years since they were necessary.

[Ant]

Didn't they have this a few years ago?

[hubops]

There are black-outs caused by heat waves and wild fires - .,.. and other blackouts caused by the money-grubbing privateers who want to play the market for their share holders .. pick your poison .. John T.

[gfretwell]

I have some California friends who say they don't care why, they just hate living in a place with 3d world reliability on their electrical grid. It is just what happens when the government screws up regulation. They make it too hard to improve infrastructure and too easy for the PoCos to profiteer. Makes you want to follow the money to Sacramento.

[micky]

I think this is the hottest year ever. Baltimore had 2 weeks over 90, most days over 95 iirc. Never happened befoer afaik. Even at night only down to 74 some nights.

But it's cooled off now, in the 80's.

[Scott Lurndal]

Sure you do.

who say they don't care why, they just

Of course, this is completely false, just like most everything else you write.

[gfretwell]

I guess they don't have news where you live. Google 2019 power failures california. These weren't rolling blackouts they were long term outages. They have had problems going on since the Enron debacle. They can't even keep the trees out from under the power lines and they have trouble keeping failing power lines from starting fires.

[micky]

I think so. And Baltimore is taking the lead.

[T]

They should be doing just fine having decommissioned their nuclear power plants. You get what you vote for.

[Scott Lurndal]

You shouldn't speak about things you have no clue about.

Currently 5% of the supply is nuclear. San Onofre was closed down because they installed some poor quality tubing which was deteriorating so the _OWNER_ decided it was too expensive to fix and shut it down.

"The plant was shut down in January 2012 after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of extensive damage to hundreds of tubes inside the virtually new steam generators."

Diablo Canyon is still up and running.

In neither case did anyone vote for them in any way.

Of course, you're generally wrong about everything, so I'm not at all surprised.

You know, google makes it real easy for you to look shit up before you write nonsense.

[T]

For only three more years. And it their last one. Or did your snot fail you?

That applies to you not me. And you should refrain from making snotty remarks when you are in error:

Here is a good one from American Pravda (if you do not like Fox News):

Poor Planning Left California Short of Electricity in a Heat Wave

In addition, the state’s nuclear fleet is in its final years. The San Onofre plant in Southern California shut down in 2013 after a failed upgrade proved too costly to repair, and the only remaining nuclear plant in the state, Diablo Canyon, is set to close by 2025.

Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station

"...it was closed by public vote on June 7, 1989"

[T]

My sister in law lives in the PRC and it is a never ending issue for her

[Scott Lurndal]

I said.

You were wrong.

[T]

Hi Scott,

I see where you are coming from. When I said

"They should be doing just fine having decommissioned their nuclear power plants"

You thought I meant they were all gone and you found one last remaining one that was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2023.

You did miss the sarcasm in my statement. I can see where you would. I could have wrote it a little better.

Do you live in the PRC (People's Republic of California)? We get a lot of PRC refugees here in Nevada. They are voting with their feet.

The PRC is a 3rd world one party state with a total press blackout of any non-conforming opinions. No hope in sight for them, so they leave. The 3rd world rolling blackouts are not helping.

My sister in law lives in the PRC and the blacks outs drive her nuts.

-T