This is OneTwoThree's brain on drugs:
>Dude - both cities are on the Pacific Gas and Electric grid, and
therefore
>their electricity comes from whatever sources PG&E uses - nuclear,
natural
>gas and hydro -
Yup.
>with less and less hydro as a percentage of the electricty
>produced., due to global warming. (Actually due to the long drought here
in
>the west, but the leftbots say global warming)
The percentage of energy contributed by hydro is growing smaller
because demand keeps rising but we aren't building any new hydro power
plants. But I forget, you're in the west, things are different there.
Georgia broke a forty year record for drought last year. We've gotten
a few more storm fronts this year and lots of pop ups, but it's not
the sort of long, steady rain the reservoirs and water tables need.
It's been a long time since I've seen a natural spring.
>Real tough for anyone to say their electricity is ALL from hydro - once
its
>on the grid you have no choice.
The way it works is that if you sell electricity to somebody 300 miles
from your plant, you put that amount onto the grid and it's delivered
at the other end but by somebody else. If your generating company
can't get orders for juice on the grid, you don't generate and aren't
profitable. Otoh, if the plant you bought electricity from goes down,
the clients 300 miles away won't notice because their actual power
source is local.
Swill
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To any God or government.
Always hopeful, yet discontent,
He knows changes arent permanent,
But change is.
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