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Bacon Commander's avatar

Best estimate for total solar-generated power in California is 24% which does NOT make it the largest energy source. LOLZ

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San Diego Pete's avatar

Fair enough. I am wrong about that. From Wikipedia for what it's worth:

Natural gas (47%)

Renewables - Solar (14%)

Renewables - Wind (7%)

Renewables - Other (Geothermal, biomass, etc.) (11%)

Large hydro (11%)

Nuclear (9%)

Certainly it does not mean that the nuclear energy crime syndicate is not full of shit. Our Governor is a spineless noodle and he's playing ball with those fiends. Thanks comrade.

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Beli Tsari's avatar

He's pretty spine-FULL, in a sniveling, suck-up kinda kleptocrat way, actually? He's just on the OTHER side! The list you cite also ignores Coal, Bio-mass, fracked oil & gas (and MORE coal) based electricity from HUGE out of state plants, as reservoirs are replaced by desert gorges, dustbowls & fire storms. Which the trolls referred to as exaggerated fear mongering, 57yrs ago, when API's president gave his "Time is running OUT" speech & Exxon's incredibly accurate chart of AGW atmospheric carbon was well underway (but nobody knew we'd be so desperate, our government & academia so corrupted to FRACK with Schlumberger's admittedly suicidal directional drilled, slick-water high volume BS).

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