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California to consider keeping last nuclear plant open
- kurupt213 4y agoPrematurely closing a nuclear power plant sounds like the pinnacle of wasteful governance.
- voldacar 4y agoThe California ideology does not value successful governance
- HeavenBanned 4y agoGavin Newsom is presidential material!
- bergenty 4y agoI don’t know you if you’re being sarcastic but definitely +1 this sincerely. He’s by far the candidate I like the most on the left.
- NullPrefix 4y agoI don't you too.
- HeavenBanned 4y agoI can see how it can be read sarcastically (now, in hindsight, I'm rubbing my temples), but beleive me I think he's the best the Left has.
- selimthegrim 4y agoWhy not Jerry Brown since we’re in a gerontocracy atm
- kyboren 4y agoNewsom would make a bad President and a terrible candidate. He's a classic corrupt corporate Democrat patsy[1] who holds power in a one-party state. Furthermore, that one-party state is California, which fact alone is enough to turn off a sizeable chunk of the national electorate. His very visibly corrupt French Laundry escapade would be replayed endlessly and undoubtedly to great effect. Finally, and most importantly, his insulation from the national political mood and current and heretofore political imperative to appeal to the California electorate leaves him woefully unprepared to effectively contest a national election. DeSantis or Youngkin would crush him like a bug. Like Kamala Harris, he would make more sense as a VP nominee (although he would similarly be a bad choice overall). His politics and California provenance would be an albatross around any Presidential candidate's neck, but access to the lucrative California establishment Democrat donor network might outweigh the electoral deadweight. [1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/questions-linger-newsom-french-laundry-lobbyist https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/question... > Kinney is well known around the state Capitol as a strategist, ghostwriter of Newsom’s speeches and unofficial fixer summoned to help loosen the governor from political jams. His dual roles as an advisor to Newsom and a lobbyist paid by companies to influence the governor and his staff have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest for the administration.
- Pigalowda 4y agoCalifornia would only ever vote D, he’s not useful as a VP. I do agree though, i think Desantis would beat him unless the National mood has really changed after Roe. We’ll see in November
- PopAlongKid 4y ago>Concerns about Diablo Canyon were revived in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a reactor that was vulnerable due to its location on the coast. That's hardly a valid concern. "The elevation of the Fukushima site is approximately 20 feet [6m] above sea level, while Diablo Canyon sits on a bluff 85 feet [26m] above sea level." [Wikipedia] Furthermore, people seem to ignore one of the very favorable attributes of Diablo Canyon - it was designed to be paired with a large pumped storage facility, so that power generated overnight is available for peak use during the day. "The Helms Pumped Storage project was designed to be used with the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, also owned by PG&E, in the 1970s, when Diablo Canyon was being designed and permitted. It is connected to that power plant by a dedicated high-tension power line." [Wikipedia]
- dillutedfixer 4y agoThe plant was built before they discovered a few fault lines in the area. Fault lines that are extremely close to the reactors.
- PopAlongKid 4y agoI was discussing specifically the risk of tsunami, which is what I believe people were trying to take from Fukushima and apply without modification to Diablo Canyon.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoIf your peak is during the day, then you probably want solar, then you can use that to fill the pumped storage for the evenings.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoEven though it sounds like the original design was to store energy at night for use during the day, it looks like now that solar is such a large part of the grid they've just flipped the schedule around. From the CAISO website, hydro and battery go up around 4pm as solar output starts to go down and they peak around 8pm (fossil fuel generation follow the same trend, roughly). Although I don't know if there's the ability to check generation at a per-site level.
- jerkstate 4y agoI heard that the scuttlebutt is that San Onofre had lots of problems and needed to be decommissioned, but the decision to decommission Diablo Canyon was a real travesty. Hopefully it goes on providing safe, reliable, clean power for many years to come.