Why turn off lights for Earth Day when California is already growing dark?
Earth Day 2024 is today and Californians are being encouraged to turn off their lights. For now, it would be a voluntary exercise in futility. In a few years, though, maybe even this summer, the lights will go out on their own, as the grid becomes shakier while the state plunges into a dim future. “Lights out” is primarily associated with Earth Hour, which usually arrives on the last Saturday in March. “Individuals from around ...
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Let’s first look at indisputable facts. Carbon dioxide level as a portion of our atmosphere is now 425 parts per million (or 0.0425%), as measured at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, up from 317 PPM in 1960. (About 500 million years ago, CO2 reached 7,000 PPM.) To understand just how minute today’s carbon concentration is, picture a stadium with a capacity of 100,000, each seat representing one part of the atmosphere. A mere 42.5 of ...
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Can California Really Power 25 Million Homes Via Offshore Wind Farms By 2045?
California is relying heavily on offshore wind to take it to the nirvana of a carbon-neutral power grid in 2045. Sacramento believes so intensely in the concept that lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would allow voters to decide in the fall of 2024 if a $1 billion bond should be issued “to support activities related to the development of offshore wind energy generation.” That’s quite a sum for a project based more on political whimsy than ...
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