San Diego To Run 100 Percent On Renewable Energy By 2035 (outerplaces.com)

The city of San Diego has announced a bold new plan to run completely on renewable energy by 2035. While the city already produces the second largest electrical output from solar energy in the U.S., the new plan further details a way to cope with the changing climate. It plans to reduce 50% of the greenhouse gas emission by 2035, as well as create new jobs through the manufacturing and installation of solar panels. "San Diego is a leader in innovation and sustainability," the Climate Action Plan reads. "By striking a sensible balance between protecting our environment and growing our economy, San Diego can support clean technology, renewable energy, and economic growth." San Diego joins San Francisco, Sydney, and Vancouver in its effort to run entirely on renewable energy.

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Re:Far enough in the future...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you think that middle-aged white men are the number one group for suicides?

So they do not have to face that everything that they have been ditto-heading for the past two decades is flat-ass wrong

be a good republican, end it all now and leave us behind to fix the mess

Re:Talk is cheap

[blindseer]

Oh how could I have forgotten the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility? NRG dumps over a billion dollars of government money on this and even after charging double the going rate of electricity to ratepayers they are threatening default. Why did they build this unworkable piece of shit? Greed. Now we've got this eyesore in the desert to clean up, one that is a navigation hazard to passing aircraft by the way. This plant produced expensive power, killed hundreds of birds, disturbed the habitat of a rare desert turtle and now the government is left holding the bill.

There's a lot of people on Slashdot that love to give nuclear power a bunch of shit when it fails but ignore or excuse the failings of solar power. I'm not accusing wickerprints of being one of the solar power zealots, the comment above is only about how politicians shit on taxpayers.

San Onofre might have been a huge clusterfuck of a project but that is just one of hundreds of nuclear power plants in the world, most of which don't make the news because they operate safely, quietly, and profitably. It seems to me that solar power only serves as a means to take taxes from the poor so that rich people with connections can lobby for subsidies and walk away with more coin in their pockets, the mess they leave behind is the taxpayers problem.