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California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle:
California's last nuclear power plant -- Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped shape the modern environmental movement -- will close in 2025, state utility regulators decided Thursday. The unanimous vote by the California Public Utilities Commission will likely bring an end to nuclear energy's long history in the state. State law forbids building more nuclear plants in California until the federal government creates a long-term solution for dealing with their waste, a goal that remains elusive despite decades of effort.
The decision comes even as California expands its fight against global warming. Owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Diablo Canyon is the state's largest power plant, supplying 9 percent of California's electricity while producing no greenhouse gases. "With this decision, we chart a new energy future by phasing out nuclear power here in California," said commission President Michael Picker. "We've looked hard at all the arguments, and we agree the time has come."
The decision comes even as California expands its fight against global warming. Owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Diablo Canyon is the state's largest power plant, supplying 9 percent of California's electricity while producing no greenhouse gases. "With this decision, we chart a new energy future by phasing out nuclear power here in California," said commission President Michael Picker. "We've looked hard at all the arguments, and we agree the time has come."
we have a proposition on the calif ballot to stop all new nuke construction. i was 14. i didnt know we had nuclear power plants. my father was a rocket scientist, but i was a bit behind the news on some science, as he had dropped out and become a hippy artist. anyway, i knew that in the future, we would get all our power from nukes. i told my mom i was shocked that we HAD nukes, and that people were trying to STOP them. my mother said "they havent figured out what to do with the waste". i was then shocked that anyone would build a nuke and NOT figure out in advance how to deal with the waste. so i went from pro nuke to anti nuke in seconds. nothing has changed. all you nuke apologists can go to hell, you arent scientists, you are ghouls. you worship death by radiation. as far as i am concerned, you are no different than the mutants in the second Apes movie, with their cobalt bomb.
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Is that why it is the 6th largest economy in the world? I'll hang with the morons thank you very much.
In answer to your question, no, it isn't. California's economy is in spite of the current government, not because of it. That won't last forever. Practically the entire current California government and the infected 9th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals seems to be doing what they can to either destroy or damage prospects for the future.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Germany has one of the highest electricity rates _and_ they are forced to increased coal use: https://www.cleanenergywire.or...
The 2020 emission reduction target is now completely out of reach. But don't worry, they are going to build more coal power plants instead: https://energytransition.org/2...
California is currently failing in many respects.
The national economy is up around 3%, and California revenues are also up about 2.9 %.
That's about a 1:1 ratio, but CA grew at twice the rate of the economy in 2016. Their growth is significantly slowed since about two years ago. Also, that 2.9% increase in revenues is offset by about 2% increase in expenses, so it's not going to reduce their deficit a lot.
The CA population has lost about 930,000 people(*) according to census data (linked in the article), mostly middle class. The middle-class in CA have moved away to Arizona, Washington, and Texas leaving the poor and ultra-rich behind. Not completely, of course, but losing that much middle class has gotta put stress on the CA economy.
Their labor force shrank from 62.1% to 59.1% in that same time - a huge decrease to happen in just over a year.
CA is dead last (50th out of 50) in economic freedom.
Some analysts are suggesting that CA is already in a recession.
So... yeah. It's entirely reasonable to predict that California is facing very bad times in the near future.
And by extension, the California management.
(*) Don't bitch about linking to Breitbart. The link to the census bureau report is right there in the linked article.
California used to be 4th until the Democrats took over. Go ahead, prove me wrong.
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California doesn't have gerrymandering. Unlike Texas, North Carolina, etc, the congressional and state legislative districts are drawn by an independent commission, and there's a simple method to challenge them in the courts.
You make think California is an "echo chamber", but if you spend any time here, you will hear diverse political opinions. There just happens to be more Democrats. My personal theory is that it's because it's such a beautiful place to live that there is generally less anger and hatred, so fewer reasons to become right-wing jackoffs. I mean, there are some as you move East, like in Bakersfield or Fresno, but mostly people just roll their eyes at them as they froth at the mouth and soil themselves in fury. Also, weed is legal here, so people are less likely to reactionary shitheads.
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