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The "greening" of California's energy infrastructure is producing some unforeseen consequences.
Solar power doesn't work very well at night. Or on cloudy days. Wind power tends to operate intermittantly.
A robust power grid takes those factors into account, usually by having natural gas turbine generators on standby. Alas, California's ecotwits have forced most of the state's fossil fueled power plants into mothballs. The ones that are still limping along will likely be shuttered by 2020 thanks to onerous and prohibitively expensive upgrades required under the Clean Air Act.
So what will happen on cloudy, windless days?
In 21st Century America. California will join the third world.
I imagine the Green Goons see this as a feature.
UPDATE 01 Mar 2013 08:48:
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the Larwyn's Link!
Posted at 10:30 by Chris Wysocki
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