Poor California.  I was stationed in Orange County CA in 1976 - 1977 it 
was very nice.  It has since been mismanaged.  Why is there so may wild 
fires in CA?  What about the recall?

Look at San Francisco designer trash cans and poop in the streets.

CA has the biggest homeless problem in the USA.

So what really gives in CA?  I think you said what part of the problem 
is - "...have not upgraded their power systems in quite some time.".


On 2021-07-27 21:52, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:22:33 -0700
> 
>> It is also interesting that those very same states that push EV’s also
>> have not upgraded their power systems in quite some time. California
>> is the leader on this list of shame with rolling blackouts and
>> brownouts each summer.
> 
> I think this is unfair to California. Much of California is the hottest
> in the US. Greenhouse gasses are created by everyone, but California
> can least afford to gain a degree. California is also the most
> populous state in the nation. So in spite of EV's and all their other
> moves to limit environmental damage, they can't reduce the heat that
> radiates or blows into California, so they can't keep all their
> citizens' houses below 85 Fahrenheit. Hence the rolling blackouts.
> 
>> They also want to put up more windmills, off
>> shore! Talk about throwing good money after bad and causing those of
>> us with computers that are capable of running linux no end of trouble.
> 
> I'm not sure how windmills cause havoc with Linux. I thought that was
> done by Microsoft.
> 
> California could sure use more fission reactors, but in a place where
> 7+ earthquakes are frequent, doing so is just too likely to cause
> another Chernobyl. Plus, anything near the coast is likely to go
> Fukushima with a tsunami. They don't have a river capable of generating
> huge power from its current. They can't import from surrounding states,
> and back in the day, when they imported from Texas, the Texan power
> companies stiffed California's power grid in order to make a bigger
> profit.
> 
> So, other than solar, wind and conservation, I don't see what other
> options California has.
> 
> SteveT
> 
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