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Lake Powell

I think this is a perfect time to push EV...it sounds like this lake Powell situation will give us an overwhelming amount of extra energy. :homer:
 
06h3 said:
I think this is a perfect time to push SOLAR...it sounds like this lake Powell situation will give us an overwhelming amount of extra energy. :homer:
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Fixt. Why admit an idea has flaws when you can instead use it to further push other agendas.

Not that I'm against EVs and solar, I just see the above as the way this all goes down.
 
Up here where it is wet, I hear this all at least once a year
Record Snow pack
Not enough snow
Jet stream flooding
we have 100% of snow pack, looks good
setting up for a record drought season

choose your flavor of panic

and because of green beer :beer:
 
HELL BOUND said:
Yeah but every swinging dick thinks that the steam out of cooling towers and the stack is pollution, so it's a good thing they shut it down.:homer: Pretty sure page was a 3 unit 750 mega watt a unit plant. That's a fuck load of power.
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Didn't Jane Fonda do a movie to prove it was?
 
I joked in another thread the only reason there hasn't been a pipeline built from one of the big rivers North East of us to the SW is every other state knows that CA would hog most of the water. Mean while areas in NM that were known for their agricultural use are turning to dust
 
bigun said:
I joked in another thread the only reason there hasn't been a pipeline built from one of the big rivers North East of us to the SW is every other state knows that CA would hog most of the water. Mean while areas in NM that were known for their agricultural use are turning to dust
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If California wanted to fix it, they could plop a desalinization plant next to the ocean and start pumping right ?
That is how I see it
 
Poor Messicans. The Colorado River estuary was dewatered and destroyed. The entire ecosystem of the upper Sea of Cortez spweeed. All for urban sprawl Bank money by the evil gringoes. Posting French Bulldogs masquerading as Pugs. Avocadoes and Pit Bulls. :goofball:
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
If California wanted to fix it, they could plop a desalinization plant next to the ocean and start pumping right ?
That is how I see it
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I don't remember the SciFi book where they had shoved a giant Iceberg into a dry dock and used the melt water in a gaint Metrotower complex, when is was gone they just went up and drug another in
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
If California wanted to fix it, they could plop a desalinization plant next to the ocean and start pumping right ?
That is how I see it
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California has backed itself into a corner, Desal takes a ton of electricity, electricity we don't have. But they keep pushing all electric everything. if conservation was the real motive we would put a moratorium on building and issuing permits. But that's not the case. They are rewarding people for adding ADU's, and building high density housing on every plot of land, pushing for more resources in one breath, but begging for conservation in the next.

Just my opinion.
 
Stingray said:
We had one, it was dangerous, :lmao::lmao:

Tree huggers closed it down.
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I lived in Sacramento when Rancho Seco, (Rancho Mistakeo?), was open and it was an unreliable POS and as it's time online declined, the voters finally elected to shut it down. Electricity was super cheap there for a while.
 
billdacat said:
Nevada is pretty fucking cool, if you know where to look. Fucking solar and wind farms, now that's UGLY!
They tore down a perfectly good power plant near Page several years ago. oops. :stirthepot:
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Because coal. :shaking: Must have been 'spensive because they're claiming wind and solar is far cheaper.

After decades of activism, the Navajo coal plant has been demolished

After decades of activism, the Navajo coal plant has been demolished​


The largest coal plant in the western US has come down. Now cleanup begins.



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Explosions bring down the three smokestacks at Navajo Generating Station on December 18. Adrian Herder/Tó Nizhóní Ání, courtesy of Wahleah Johns/National Renewables
The three 775-foot smokestacks of the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station (NGS) — the West’s largest coal plant — were demolished December 18, symbolically marking the end of coal’s dominance in a region where renewable energy sources like wind and solar have become far cheaper.
The Salt River Project (SRP), majority owners and operators of NGS, decided to close the plant in 2017 due to rising operating costs. Scott Harelson, a spokesperson for SRP, told me, “Natural gas prices had been low for a long period of time and are much lower than coal. So the plant was out of market, essentially.”
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dave_dj1 said:
People need to wake up and realize that nuke plants are safe. We need to build more of them!
:beer:
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True- until they are not, because there are retards running them. Great concept, poor execution on trained/skilled persons side of things. Scary to think of the average person in charge of things that can go bad fast. I mean case in point is our sitting 'president'.
 
So simple, big kegger on the beach, everybody pees in the lake,problem solved. See i can think just like the govt.
 
Stingray said:
California has backed itself into a corner, Desal takes a ton of electricity, electricity we don't have. But they keep pushing all electric everything. if conservation was the real motive we would put a moratorium on building and issuing permits. But that's not the case. They are rewarding people for adding ADU's, and building high density housing on every plot of land, pushing for more resources in one breath, but begging for conservation in the next.

Just my opinion.
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Yep. Buncha shortsightedness.
 
Roc Doc said:
I lived in Sacramento when Rancho Seco, (Rancho Mistakeo?), was open and it was an unreliable POS and as it's time online declined, the voters finally elected to shut it down. Electricity was super cheap there for a while.
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Here in America we can fuck anything up. Just ask us.
 
Splib said:
We had 3 that accounted for 25% of our capacity at zenith.
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Actually, 4:

Humboldt Bay
Rancho Seco
Diablo Canyon (still in operation but scheduled for closure)
San Onofre
 
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