[ExI] China and solar power

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 

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>>... The coal could be hauled 12 miles off the west coast out into international waters.  The necessary cooling water could be distilled from seawater, or dump the excess heat directly into the seawater without an evaporation phase change.
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>>... Keith wouldn't that work? spike

>...No.  A coal plant built at sea would be way more expensive to build and operate.  Plus, in California, the government would never let you connect to the grid.

Keith



Clarification: the proposed coal plant is floating, built on a retired war ship for instance.  A WW2 era light battle cruiser would be plenty big for something like that, and those are just scrap iron now anyway.

OK, low cost low tech coal burning plant built aboard a retired war ship, anchored 12 miles out, where carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  Ballot proposal introduced that proposes to undo California's SB100 signed in 2019, which required the renewable energy purchase.  We know that the price of power more than doubled since then.

OK, so now we introduce SB negative 100, which removes the requirement for California to purchase renewable energy, saving birds, keeping wilderness pristine, restoring nature to wild beasts, reducing power bills to half its current price by allowing the power company to buy whatever power is available which meets California environmental regulations if located in the state.  A coal plant floating 12 miles out would not be located in the state, nor would a long row of coal plants in Nevada just across the state line.

Of course California voters will buy into that, not to save birds, but to save half their power bill.

I bet that would pass bigtime.

spike