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The golden state of California is turning brown without continuous electricity

By Ronald Stein - posted Tuesday, 17 September 2024


"GREEN" policymakers are oblivious to humanity's addiction to the products and fuels from fossil fuels, as they are to these two basic facts:

  • No one uses crude oil in its raw form. "Big Oil" only exists because of humanity's addiction to the products and fuels made from oil!
  • "Renewables", like wind and solar, only exist to generate intermittent electricity, as they CANNOT make any products or fuels!

 

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To rid the world of crude oil usage, there is no need to over-regulate or over-tax the oil industry, just STOP using the products and fuels made from crude oil! Simplistically:

  • STOP making cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, ships, farming equipment, medical equipment and supplies, communications equipment, military equipment, etc. that demand crude oil for their supply chain of products.

STOPPING the demands of society, for the products and fuels made from oil, will eliminate the need for crude oil !!!!!

The main growth of electric power usage is coming from new datacenters housing AI technologies. It is expected that over the next few decades, 50% of additional electric power will be needed just for AI but datacenters CANNOT run on occasional electricity from wind and solar.

How will the occasionally generated electricity from wind and solar support the following:

  • America's military fleet of vehicles, ships, and aircraft?
  • America's commercial and private aircraft?
  • America's hospitals?
  • America's space exploration?
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Despite the "Green New Deal" and "Net Zero" policies in California that are supported by Governor Newsom and the Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, it's time to stimulate conversations about the generation of continuously generated electricity to meet the demands of the end users in America.

 

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Ronald Stein is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. He is a policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and a national TV commentator on energy & infrastructure with Rick Amato.

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