California is synonymous with rocketing power prices and mass summer blackouts, courtesy of subsidised wind and solar.
Last summer, whenever periods of peak demand coincided with sunset and calm weather, millions were plunged into sweltering darkness.
But, for Californians, that indignity was simply a taste of things to come. That’s if California is truly serious about meeting a mandated target of 100% carbon-emissions-free electricity, while simultaneously shuttering every last nuclear power plant within the state.
Francis Menton takes a look at the colossal cost of chasing Utopia.
California’s Zero Carbon Plans: Can Anybody Here Do Basic Arithmetic?
Manhattan Contrarian
Francis Menton
11 May 2021
In California, as we all know, the inhabitants and their elected officials are far more sophisticated and virtuous than the rest of us rubes who inhabit the other parts of the country. This particularly goes for the arena of climate change, where California is leading…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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