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Shhh. The central coast doesn't exist. Just the bay and LA. Nothing to see here folks, keep driving.

Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Shhh. The central coast doesn't exist. Just the bay and LA. Nothing to see here folks, keep driving. Seriously, I still aspiration of retiring in Santa Barbara some day when the boomers are long gone and hopefully CA's population halves or at least reverts to numbers seen in the 90s. With that said, had California been capable of any reasonable form of foresight it would be gaining even more of it's energy needs from solar; instead it did what we all feared it would in December and made the demand for solar plummet by forcing new solar owners have to sell to the utilities [0]. This coupled with higher interests rates, and a slowing economy has meant that diablo canyon, reluctantly found it's MVP in incompetence and corrupt officials. This along with Costa Mesa refusing to build a desalination plant has to be the biggest blunders in trying to stave off some of the biggest issues in California; the Colorado River is not a viable option any more, and while its been a very good year weather wise for water replenishment it must be understood that this is not something CA, but specifically SoCal, can rely on to get it's house in order. I personally wanted to see DC get put offline, for practical as well as personal reasons, but now it's made itself indispensable and stifled progress on incentivizing the building of more renewable capacity and updating a crumbling energy infrastructure that caused lots of fires during COVID, not unlike those seen in Maui. I think something like that happening is in the cards when the reversion to the mean happens and we see the true cost of keeping these things online and deferring and prolonging the inevitable. 0: https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/california-solar-rules-overhauled/ https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/california-solar-...

> Shhh. The central coast doesn't exist. Just the bay and LA. Nothing to see here folks, keep driving. Seriously, I still aspiration of retiring in Santa Barbara some day when the boomers are long gone and hopefully CA's population halves or at least reverts to numbers seen in the 90s. With that said, had California been capable of any reasonable form of foresight it would be gaining even more of it's energy needs from solar; instead it did what we all feared it would in December and made the demand for solar plummet by forcing new solar owners have to sell to the utilities [0]. This coupled with higher interests rates, and a slowing economy has meant that diablo canyon, reluctantly found it's MVP in incompetence and corrupt officials. This along with Costa Mesa refusing to build a desalination plant has to be the biggest blunders in trying to stave off some of the biggest issues in California; the Colorado River is not a viable option any more, and while its been a very good year weather wise for water replenishment it must be understood that this is not something CA, but specifically SoCal, can rely on to get it's house in order. I personally wanted to see DC get put offline, for practical as well as personal reasons, but now it's made itself indispensable and stifled progress on incentivizing the building of more renewable capacity and updating a crumbling energy infrastructure that caused lots of fires during COVID, not unlike those seen in Maui. I think something like that happening is in the cards when the reversion to the mean happens and we see the true cost of keeping these things online and deferring and prolonging the inevitable. 0: https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/california-solar-rules-overhauled/ https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/california-solar-...