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    Climate Change Denial

    You mean those rapid natural climate changes?
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    Green New Deal

    As we add more solar and move to electric heating and electric cars the capacity of the grid will be challenged during the night and winter when solar output is low or non existent. PG&E has already started changing their time of use rate structure because of the addition of solar to their...
  3. R

    Green New Deal

    A 100% wealth tax on all US billionaires you would get $4 trillion or less than the $4.15 trillion Biden stimulus and Jobs act.
  4. R

    SF sues oil companies because of climate change

    What do you think would happen if the oil companies just stopped selling their products? Unlike smoking society would completely shut down.
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    California Utilities Plan All Out War On Solar, Please Read And Help

    My 70 Kwh per day in the winter is with propane heating and one electric water heater. I have changed almost all lights to LED. If we convert to electric heating it would be much worse.
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    California Utilities Plan All Out War On Solar, Please Read And Help

    My solar averages around 58 kwh per day during the peak summer month and less than 7 kwh per day during the minimum winter month. My peak use is in winter of about 70kwh per day. Peak daily use in the summer is less. So how would I be able to cut the cord. The cost of 2 powerwalls would be about...
  7. R

    V2G with PG&E, Tesla, and Ossiaco?

    I was interested in using the car as battery backup using Ossiaco because it appeared it would be cheaper than buying 2 powerwalls. I could not justify 2 powerwalls at about $20,000 especially since my solar puts out almost no power during the winter. How do you folks use the powerwalls to...
  8. R

    Green New Deal

    So the idea is to pay folks that can't afford kids money so they will have more kids. I'm sure this will work great.
  9. R

    Green New Deal

    Most of these subsidies are similar to what other industries receive. So it says they get $20 billion per year of these subsidies in the US but on the other hand the federal fuel taxes raised $36.4 billion in fuel taxes in 2016. Since most states have higher fuel tax rates the overall tax is...
  10. R

    Green New Deal

    I agree we spend too much on the military but what in the heck are the kickbacks to the oil industry? You do understand that the oil industry in general earns less profit margins than most other industries. Right now they have negative returns. I guess the kickbacks you are talking about are the...
  11. R

    Green New Deal

    The government giving money works great until you run out of other peoples money. Forget corporations? So I guess in your mind we would be better off by just eliminating corporations at let the government run everything? I'm sure that would work well.
  12. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    So what will Amazon's $10 billion do?? Seems this dwarfs everything the fossil fuel industry spends. By the way there are several liberal folks like Tom Steyer that have been outspend the oil industry. Same as the Democrats tend to outspend the Republicans.
  13. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    For Exxon profit you picked a year of maximum profit. If you look at their profit over the years you will see it varies considerably. For the last several years it has been minimal and currently it's negative. This is the case for all oil companies (boom and bust). If you look at profit margins...
  14. R

    Green New Deal

    US political support, are you kidding. There are currently around 50 nuclear plants being built and only 2 are in the US. So other countries can build them economically but the US can't? The reason we are not building more nuclear plants is pressure from environmental groups including excess...
  15. R

    Green New Deal

    What do you think would happen if the fossil fuel industry was shut down? I guess it might work since it would only shut down the US companies and countries like Russia, Venezuela and and those in the middle east could still provide the needed oil. It would greatly raise the price but I guess...
  16. R

    Green New Deal

    What do you think would happen if the fossil fuel industry was shut down? I guess it might work since it would only shut down the US companies and countries like Russia, Venezuela and and those in the middle east could still provide the needed oil. It would greatly raise the price but I guess...
  17. R

    Green New Deal

    If this was really true you wouldn't need the government to subsidize renewables. Once you start shifting to electric heating, etc the costs will go up exponentially. Because of the intermittent nature of wind and solar you will need extensive backup provided by fossil fuels or a combination of...
  18. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Where I live in Northern California we get an average of 55 inches of rain per year. The difference is that it all comes during the winter with almost none in the summer. Our maximum rainfall in the last 22 years I have lived here was 96 inches again all in about 5-6 months. This makes the...
  19. R

    Green New Deal

    The number of jobs is at it's lowest level because of the pandemic. If you look at most other countries they are in even worse shape. As far as electrifying everything it will raise the cost of our energy. This will make the cost of whatever we produce to go up. If other countries continue to...
  20. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Your right our max to min is much more than normal because of sub optimal position and tree shading. In addition, although we live close to you, we are in the foothills and get a lot more rain which can severely cut our output. Heavy rain has cut our output to a low of 1 kwh. But even the large...
  21. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    The problem with batteries they are still relatively expensive. Having enough battery capacity for summer to winter operation is a big problem. My solar system averages 8 times more during the summer peak month than the winter.minimum month. We average about about 58kwh per day during the summer...
  22. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    The problem with renewables is that you need to keep a natural gas or coal plant ready to run when the sun doesn't shine or wind blow. When you add this cost especially winter versus summer output the cost for wind and solar soars. The problem with nuclear is the amount of regulations. In...
  23. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Depends on how much the solar farm is subsidized. So far locations where wind and solar have been pushed the cost of electricity has gone up. Look at California and Germany. The problem is that fossil fuel operations must be kept in reserve for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't...
  24. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    So this shows we will spend more than any other country to go green. What that means is that it will drive up the cost of our products versus other countries especially China. Since our companies will be less competitive they will lose business to companies in other countries. This will result...
  25. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Yes, they died as it got colder not warmer. As pointed out they couldn't move fast enough to warmer regions. This shows that in general warmer is better than colder for humans.
  26. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    May also be caused by less fire activity. In per-industrial time an average of almost 4.5 million acres burned per year in California. Fires tend to burn smaller trees and can leave the large ones...
  27. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Actually there are more trees than since 1940. Since many fires are caused by people and development like power lines an increase in population increases potential fires. Firefighting is the one thing that reduces fires but also increases fuel load so it's both positive and negative.
  28. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    If wildfires are caused by man made climate change why are the number of fires and the acres burned in the US much higher from 1920 to 1950? Here is the data: National Interagency Fire Center In addition Alaska was not included in data until 1959 and Hawaii until 1960.
  29. R

    Green New Deal

    Without my generation and fossil fuels there would be several billion less folks because so many would have died. Their also would be no trees, because they would have all been cut down for fuel. As far as renewables look what is happening in California. The unreliable wind and solar is at about...
  30. R

    Green New Deal

    What was the competition to fossil fuels? Any support kept the costs down which helped the folks purchasing it. This helped the poorest folks the most. However, most support for fossil fuels has been the same as other industries get. In addition it's not all support. Remember that gas taxes...
  31. R

    Green New Deal

    If wind and solar were actually less expensive you wouldn't need the government to push it. Battery storage is currently very expensive. In Australia the Horsdale battery cost around $50 million and can only power 30,000 homes for a short time. It is mainly meant to keep things running for up to...
  32. R

    Green New Deal

    Birds killed by cats tend to be common small birds like sparrows. The wind farms kill eagles, falcons, etc. They also kill millions of bats. As far as the countries that are shown that have high percentage of renewables most of it is from hydro and biomass not wind and solar. The only one that...
  33. R

    Green New Deal

    If you would have invested the $10,000 in the stock market (DOW, S&P or NASDAQ) on September 1, 2012 you would have more than doubled your money. So calling someone a moron for not investing in solar 8 years ago is not necessarily correct.
  34. R

    Green New Deal

    So Biden's plan is to increase the cost of manufacturing in the US through taxes, regulations and higher wages. Since the cost of producing products in the US will dramatically increase with his plan how will he keep cheaper products from coming in from those other countries? Seems to me the...
  35. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Where do you get Fracking is racist. The largest Fracking operation is in West Texas and it's mainly white. It also states Oakland freeway traffic is racist. Give me a break. There are freeways all through the Bay Area. I lived there twice and was near 2 freeways both times. I looked at as being...
  36. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    This is the video which basically says that as you get close to 100% wind and solar it gets costly because you must maintain reliable backup power. I'm sure many of you didn't look at it because of the title "What's Wrong with Wind and Solar. In fact some actually stated that they didn't look...
  37. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    So what's wrong with this data on weather related events. https://www.jpands.org/vol14no4/goklany.pdf Do everything printed in the Guardian is gold. Give me a break.
  38. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    I have included data and I think many folks won't look at it since they know it won't agree with what they think.
  39. R

    Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging

    Since gas stations make more money selling convenience items than selling gas I foresee service stations adding electric charging so they can sell stuff to owners of electric cars. In fact it has already started and will increase with the number of electric cars.
  40. R

    Green New Deal

    Natures health is also dependent on human wealth. Just look at poor countries and see how natures does with large populations of poor folks. As an example just check out Haiti versus the Dominican Republic.
  41. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Most of this has nothing to do with climate change. It's folks purposely clearing forests for agriculture. If it wasn't for fossil fuels most forest would be gone by now and or the world population would be much lower.
  42. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    So you only look at information that supports your views. Sure way of never changing you mind. Kind of like the science is settled. I always though you should challenge science with different data and views. Have a nice day.
  43. R

    Green New Deal

    You really need to look at the historical data. Weather related disasters were worse in the past. Here is the worst US floods as an example. Please note almost 2/3 are before 1950. What are the worst floods in American history? A rundown of the top 30 The worst droughts were in the 1930s and...
  44. R

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Explanation of the Cost of Solar and Wind
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    Green New Deal

    As stated the New Deal Offered Hope. It was started in 1933 with unemployment at 24.9%. Unemployment did go down but it still stayed above 14 % until WW2. It went down to 14.9% in 1937 and then back up to 19% in 1938. In 1939 it was at 17.2% and 1940 14.6%. So it may have helped but it didn't...
  46. R

    Green New Deal

    I'm in favor of single payer healthcare but it's certainly not free. In 2018 the government spent $731 billion on medicare for 60 million folks. That's a little over $12,000 per person per year. In addition it doesn't cover everything. Supplemental insurance for me and my wife including dental...
  47. R

    Green New Deal

    Yep, everyone should have healthcare and help pay for it. It could be public like it is in most countries or required private like in Switzerland. It's not right for someone having health insurance through their company for years, lose their job and thus lose their health insurance. It also...
  48. R

    Green New Deal

    This shows the tax rates, gross income and average after tax income per country. Income Tax Rates By Country & Global Salaries After Taxes Please not that average after tax income in the US is $52,344, UK is $40,169, Sweden is $22,410, Canada is $35,299, Denmark $28,227, Japan $35,299. Only...
  49. R

    Green New Deal

    This study shows that 88% of millionaires are self made. https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/on-retirement/articles/7-myths-about-millionaires Of Billionaires 55.8% are self made. 30.9 % inherited some money and only13.3% inherited all their wealth.