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rotor wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:48 pm My brother lives out in commieland and has had power off since Tuesday. He believes in 2A for him but nobody else. Go figure. As soon as I can reach him I want to know how that Tesla is doing. Charges pretty good by solar power?

Heh. Hope he has his own solar panel set up.

California encourages people to put solar panels on their roofs in conjunction with the power company. I'm sure the companies offer "incentives" to give them solar power. But...they don't work during the blackouts because they pump electricity directly into the power company's grid, not to the house. So when the power company shuts down the power grid the solar panels are useless.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/californ ... 36244.html

Lynyrd wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:57 pm Not understanding the motivation for the stupid policies of Sacramento, and the idiots that vote them into office, why on earth would the harvesting of dead and diseased timber be looked at as a bad thing?

I believe the reason is that the dead timber should be allowed to rot and return to the soil to release nutrients and such, as it would "naturally". This is fine as far as it goes, but "naturally" would also include occasional burn-offs started by lightning and so forth. It's a system, and if you tinker with one part of the system (we won't allow any relatively small "natural" or "management" fires), then you affect the other parts (deadwood piles up way beyond its "natural" limit). Then when the spark does hit, be it lightning or arsonist, you get huge wildfires.

IIRC, California also capped the rates that utilities could charge consumers for electricity, because their new "renewable" sources of energy are costly to implement, and not so reliable, and rates were going up fast. However costs are not capped. Exacerbating it, when instate electricity production is not high enough (like during summer time), electricity has to be purchased from outside the state at whatever the going rate is at that moment, which of course in the summer time is high. So the costs can exceed the rate the companies can charge. Something gives, and I'll bet a lot of maintenance (like clearing around powerlines) gets deferred.

TANSTAAFL.