Environment & Energy

...it has "invested" heavily, in response to wildly believed but nonsensical claims about what is and is not "green," in unreliable plants requiring redundant systems.

The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant routinely puts put more energy, the unit of which is the Joule (often expressed as MWh) and not units of (often dishonestly using peak) power than all the wind turbines in California, spread over more than 1000 square miles. It does so on a 12 acre footprint.

This dishonesty, referring to peak power rather than energy persists.

We have around here antinukes declaring that solar energy is "cheap." How is it then that California, the largest producer of solar electricity, has the second highest electricity rates after Hawaii?

The answer lies in full system costs LFSCOE, which includes the cost of redundancy and transmission, as opposed to the widely used and dishonest metric LCOE.

Reliable and continuous systems with low environmental impact, which in California consists of its only remaining nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, if one considers that hydroelectricity is subject to drought conditions, are cheap and safe. Unreliable systems are neither, given the many fires resulting from the need to over build transmission lines subject to sparking in California's case..

California like Germany is a poster case for the real cost of so called "renewable energy."

Of course the OP is posted to advertise for hydrogen fantasies, another example of redundancy that is also a scam that fronts for the fossil fuel industry.

Have a nice day.