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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Trollbait, Jul 27, 2021.

  1. dbstoo

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    California is in a bit of a pinch. The western states are experiencing record droughts which are cutting into hydro generation. We have a government mandate to ramp up the adoption of BEVs much faster than normal market forces would. We have a public mandate to remove nuclear power from the supplies, resulting in loss of 10% of our power generation within 2 years.

    The 10 GW of offshore windmills will not make up for the loss of our remaining nuclear power plants. It's going to be tough going for the next 5 to 10 years.
     
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    The energy-output of 10GW of wind is the equivalent of 4-4.5GW worth of nuclear generation stations.