Re: California power crisis - technical or political?

Robert Baer wrote:
Atlas wrote:
Hi everyone,

A colleague of mine was claiming that california's power crisis isn't
actually due to a lack of generating capacity, but is actually
political/economic in nature. Any thoughts? Thanks
You forgot the third contributing factor..transmission line capacity.
Other than that, the answer is an unqualified "YES".

One could easily argue that decisions to build power generation and transmission equipment are entirely political and economic. So _any_ problem with the grid is political/economic.

But that would be sophistry.

The problem is that you folks need to harness Gerbil Power, and put generators on all those wheels in all those cages in all those little girls' bedrooms across CA.

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