Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Will Silicon Valley Get An Exemption?

8/28/18 CBS News:
California's assembly has voted to move the state's electricity completely off fossil fuels.
The state assembly on Tuesday passed S.B. 100, a proposal to transition California to 100 percent emissions-free electricity sources by 2045. Amid heavy lobbying from environmentalists and other groups, the bill passed, 43 to 32.
Unless they reverse their longstanding antinuclear position, I do not see how.  I suppose a few tens of billions of dollars in solar panels and massive batteries for night might do the job.  Californians (at least some) are rich.

2 comments:

  1. Silicon Valley long ago started moving their big server farms to places where electricity was cheap, and less air conditioning was needed.

    Apple is building a big farm in Mesa, AZ, where air conditioning is expensive, but electricity is less expensive than CA. Being Silicon Valley lefties, they built a huge solar farm that can supply the total amount of power that the farm uses - or so they say. Of course, when the sun isn't shining, that farm will be getting its power from coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear and a bit of hydro.

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