Comments on: July 27, 2021 Zimmerman Space Show podcast https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-27-2021-zimmerman-space-show-podcast/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Shallow Minded Reader https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-27-2021-zimmerman-space-show-podcast/#comment-1163119 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:48:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=77743#comment-1163119 Nice to hear you and Charles not talking over each other (to much).

]]> By: Jay https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-27-2021-zimmerman-space-show-podcast/#comment-1163068 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:15:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=77743#comment-1163068 I wish I could have called in, in regards to California’s power. California is a big power importer. It is part of of the western grid made of the western U.S. states, B.C. and part of Alberta. When you plug in your appliance, you do not know where the electricity is coming from. The electrons from the coal power plant from Montana, Wyoming and Utah do not stop at the California state line.
I always get a good laugh from this, California and Oregon are trying to get 100% renewables by 2030 or 2040. I am sure Washington state is right behind them, they want to get rid of four dams because of some fish. They are getting rid of their generation capacity and trying to replace it with renewables. I am sorry but a 1000 wind turbines and a square mile of photovoltaics can not take the constant demand and place of a 1GW plant. California decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) and next will be the Diablo Nuclear Station.
What did California do with the generation capacity of SONGS going away? They now use their natural gas generator plants that are used to increase the peak generation to meet demand when it is greater, called “peaker plants”, are now running all the time and importing more power. Those peaker plants will go away due to the zero-emission law.
Most of all the power for southern California comes from out of state: Palo Verde Nuclear in AZ, some from Hoover Dam, about a third from Utah’s Coal plants, and the other third from the hydro dams in the Pacific Northwest via the intertie. That’s no way to run a state of that size.

You may feel good about yourself California, but you are just a load. Electrical load that is. Sorry to rant, but politicians have the science education of elementary school student when it comes to power.

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