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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,018 Standard Supporter
    With the blackouts for the Santa Ana winds and now this - I'd be looking at a good size generator - just like in the third world.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    California inching closer and closer to Venezuela by the day.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,038 Founders Club

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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    RaceBannon said:


    Looks photoshopped
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,215
    MikeDamone said:

    RaceBannon said:


    Looks photoshopped
    Never gets old.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,215
    RaceBannon said:

    SFGbob said:

    Thankfully I live on the side of the hill that doesn't need AC but if you're anywhere in the central valley or too far away from the ocean anywhere south of Santa Cruz right now you're roasting in California. This "shortage" is entirely the fault of the Rat party and the Green New Deal supporters.

    Cali shut down natural gas generation of power without a substitute and instead of a surplus we have rolling blackouts

    This is the brain power of your leftist government hack
    Natural gas generation was initially pushed in California as a method to do away with the remaining coal fired power plants. They built plenty of them but Jerry Brown and now Newsom have been busy shutting them down.
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,650 Founders Club
    I got a flex alert to conserve.


    Went and turned on my AC even though I don't need to.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,038 Founders Club
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    I got a flex alert to conserve.


    Went and turned on my AC even though I don't need to.

    I need to

    August swamp weather
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  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    edited August 2020
    Why not just buy power on the open market at market price?

    California has a big — and growing — glut of power, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times has found. The state’s power plants are on track to be able to produce at least 21% more electricity than it needs by 2020, based on official estimates. And that doesn’t even count the soaring production of electricity by rooftop solar panels that has added to the surplus.

    https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,215
    doogie said:

    Why not just buy power on the open market at market price?

    California has a big — and growing — glut of power, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times has found. The state’s power plants are on track to be able to produce at least 21% more electricity than it needs by 2020, based on official estimates. And that doesn’t even count the soaring production of electricity by rooftop solar panels that has added to the surplus.

    https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/

    The problems come when you have a heatwave like we're experiencing now and the sun goes down. No electrical generation from solar panels at night, and the other states aren't willing to sell you their surplus because they are all experiencing increased load demands from their customers. The state should have kept enough NG powered electrical generating power stations around but they dismantled them on account of the Green Energy requirements mandated by the state government.
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