California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045

If they do not take large hydro into account when calculating this 100%, I wonder what we'll do with the dams. Destroy them to let the rivers free-flow again? Dams would have been a great store of energy for this project by pumping the water up during the day using solar/wind.

Tesla Energy must be salivating at all those batteries that will need to be constructed.

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Post by corradio » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:13 PM UTC

That's very interesting. Right now California seems to run about 40-60% renewable according to https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...

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Post by yspeak » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:14 PM UTC

Another subsidy for Tesla. All PR hype as it is an impossible goal unless you want to live in a very expensive Stone age and will do nothing of significance for global warming. More reasons to leave California.

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Post by guelo » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:14 PM UTC

Tuxer wrote: post #6

Once again, making me proud to pay CA taxes. If they do not take large hydro into account when calculating this 100%, I wonder what we'll do with the dams. Destroy them to let the rivers free-flow again? Dams would have been a great store of energy for this project by pumping the water up during the day using solar/wind. Tesla Energy must be salivating at all those batteries that will need to be constructed.

I think you misread. Hydro will be allowed under this bill.

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Post by internet_user » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:18 PM UTC

Does aneutronic p-b11 fission count as clean in California?