{"id":88237,"date":"2024-08-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88237"},"modified":"2024-08-27T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:47:31","slug":"a-cold-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88237","title":{"rendered":"A Cold California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bill Glahn at the Center of the American Experiment tracked energy usage in MInnesota for one hot ugly day, this past Monday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just past 7:30, demand has fallen back to the level from 7 hours ago.<br><br>Solar has vanished from the mix, with coal + natural gas carrying the bulk of the load. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8RfQtueaAq\">https:\/\/t.co\/8RfQtueaAq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BO237d5LGm\">pic.twitter.com\/BO237d5LGm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1828231542298059202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Renewables&#8221; provide 8% of the energy.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Somehow<\/em>, though, they&#8217;ll be ready to take the entire load (and all those mandated EVs) by 2040?<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of this classic discourse on solving difficult problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"811\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8-811x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8-811x1024.png 811w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8-238x300.png 238w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8-768x969.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess the &#8220;miracle&#8221;, in this case, will be that everyone involved in setting the policy will be out of government and cashing fat non-profit or lobbying checks by the time energy becomes unaffordable to proles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Glahn at the Center of the American Experiment tracked energy usage in MInnesota for one hot ugly day, this past Monday: &#8220;Renewables&#8221; provide 8% of the energy. Somehow, though, they&#8217;ll be ready to take the entire load (and all those mandated EVs) by 2040? Reminds me of this classic discourse on solving difficult problems: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88239,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237\/revisions\/88239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}