Are you going to have gasoline in CA in 25 years for your Corvettes?
 

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...218128485.html

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...217526750.html

100% renewable probably also means no gasoline or diesel(unless biodiesel) for any vehicles. I doubt they will pass exceptions for collector cars, as that is something only rich people can afford,and its all about equality out there.Sounds like it will be real nice place to live in 25 years. Sarcasm mode ON. Expensive, crowded, and bicycles and buses for transpo, I wonder if anyone told them how much infrastructure would be required to supply electricity for private electric cars if they are all electric?

And how many BTUs of extra electric they would have to generate to replace all those gasoline BTUs?This is definitely something they didn't float past the engineers, just pass law and assume people will come up with a viable solution.

All I saw was a bill to have 100% renewable energy production for the electric grid. Didn't see a mention of no carbon fuels for cars, though I did just quickly skim the articles.

Yup, you are right. Electric gen only.
Thanks for clarifying. Its still gonna be expensive, though. And how many more Ca Condors and Bald eagles are gonna get pureed by all the extra wind turbines?
Doug

Considering the cost of anything and everything in Cali (and the drastic increases coming), and the political environment, I can't understand why most people are not leaving for anyplace else.

I hear your concern. It will be many decades before gasoline engines go the way of the horse and buggy, but it will eventually happen. They will be priced or regulated out of the mainstream market at some point. Not likely in my lifetime though. Until then enjoy them as often as you can!

Sometimes I think that at some point about 20 years ago I went to sleep and woke up in a parallel universe where science and logic that I knew was completely convoluted and makes no sense.

I recently completed reading a 2012 book, "Energy for Future Presidents", by Richard Muller, a Cal Berkeley physicist and professor. He believes that man made CO2 is "likely" a factor in so-called "climate change", but he is still somewhat of a skeptic, as am I, because we don't understand all the factors and the way they interact that have continuously, in geological time frames, changed the earth's climate over the past 4.5 billion years. Here are some of the major points he makes.

Electric cars are not economically viable because typical analyses we see from the press and politicians do no include battery replacement cost or the cost of recycling the hazardous materials they contain. Further, his analyses yields that if you are charging an electric car with electricity from a coal-fired power plant, you are generating more CO2 than a conventional hydrocarbon powered car. Also, electric cars, overall, are barely more thermally efficient than conventional hydrocarbon powered cars when you take into account generation, transmission, discharging, and charging efficiencies.

China is adding a gigawatt of coal-fired electric power generation every week, and India is not far behind. All of this nonsense about reducing CO2 in California will reduce worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions over the next few decades by something like 0.02 percent, and it will devastate California's economy. Even Obama rejected the Copenhagen protocol because he realized that it required all the CO2 reduction from developed countries, while letting China and India off the hook, which would place the developed countries at an economic disadvantage, while the huge increase in CO2 from developing countries would continue to increase global average temperature, assuming the climate models are reasonably accurate. Any reductions from the developed countries would be essentially noise level compared to the added CO2 from coal-fired power plants in developing countries.

Fuel cell cars are a no-go because when you take into account the CO2 emissions from producing the hydrogen, which is derived from methane (CH4, with a byproduct of CO2 from the carbon atom) and fuel cell/motor efficiencies, you will generate less CO2 than if the car was methane powered.

In a survey that asked who is the most well known American scientist the top answer was Al Gore. AL GORE... he has a frigging degree in journalism! BTW, in a very polite and non-pejorative way Muller takes apart Gore's infamous movie.

Everyone should read this book, especially the elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats who push all this nonsense while the press cheers on... yeah, all those "scientists" with journalism degrees.

Muller has several other books in print, and his writing style is quick-paced and easy to digest for the non-scientist. Among his many other accomplishments and honors, he was part of the interdisciplinary team or scientists (headed by geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, physicist Luis Alvarez who was Muller's thesis advsior) that proved the dinosaurs were wiped out by a 10 kilometer wide asteroid (or maybe a comet) that impacted the earth off the current Yucatan peninsula about 66 million years ago. (Read Walter Alvarez' book, "T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" if you want to know the full story behind this decade-plus long endeavor to prove the original hypothesis in the mist of often acrimonious ridicule from much of the scientific community. It's a very interesting story.)

You can probably find Muller's and Alvarez' books at your local library.

Duke

?? Nuke plants? Thousands of condors and bald eagles killed by nuke plants? How are coal and gas plants killing birds?

https://apnews.com/b8dd6050c702467e8be4b1272a3adc87
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/sta...8e60be503.html
https://www.eagles.org/take-action/w...ne-fatalities/

Doug

Here we go.

Doomsday sayers were common in the 70's when California led the way in emissions reduction.
But it's worked beyond a shadow of a doubt: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...h-environment/

Electric cars CENTRALIZE the electric generation rather than every car emitting it's own pollution. This enables more rapid evolution to cleaner generation as technology evolves. People scoffed at solar just 20 years ago.. they are not laughing any longer.

How many c1-c3 owners will be able to drive them in another 25 years?

Bill

Maybe we won't have California in 25 years. We could sell it to Mexico and use the money to pay for the wall.

Ahh, so it's not the dead birds that concern you, it is where they are killed.:lol:

Better to keep quiet and people think your a FOOL that to Post and remove All Doubt ....... Oh And by the way Solar farms kill birds ........ Ivanpah Solar Plant. ...............( 6000 a year)............................. Ignorant

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html






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but offshore turbines are a great idea.? Electricity and salt water don't mix well. Corrosion and maintance on elevated towers , Hindrance to navigation and wind averages a 35% capacity factor.

Probably the same reasons workers in the dwindling coal job areas of West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky don't leave...they're still rooted to their families, friends, and their faith.

Enjoy em while you can!