Discussion: California Sets Goal Of 100 Percent Clean Energy By 2045

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In contrast, Dotard proposes 100% dirty energy by late 2018.

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With which heā€™ll get as much R love as they have to give.

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Well, itā€™s nice that at least one place in the US has set positive, optimistic and progressive goals.

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I applaud California for doing this. It well help to mitigate what is to come. I only hope we can adapt quickly enough; our progeny are going to have a very difficult road.

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Youā€™ve got to to admire the Governorā€™s life of public service and achievement.

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I agree, the REPUGS are going to explode.

However, I also believe we all could do our part. Times have changed.

In 2014 I built a home here in East TN and needed to go thru hoops to get the OK on potable rainwater retention, 100% off grid both for water heating and power, and a black/gray water system. It is not that the powers-that-be were against anything but they wanted their pound-of-flesh first in the form of fees. Example, they wanted me to pay a monthly grid connection fee even with zero connections. In each case I was able to stop them and get my C-of-O. In 2016 I sold the home and purchased a home built in 1956 that already a gray water system that was originally installed in 1956 so no health department fight on that. What surprised me was when I went to get the permit for solar the process had been streamlined and the permitting took no longer than getting any standard building permit. Shockingly the potable rainwater retention system I was proposing required no permits but only an annual certification of water quality. That certification was no burdon as even for city provided water the county recommended an annual test. My how things have changed even in my very conservative area.

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I expect they will. Some years ago a town in KS was destroyed by a tornado and the town fathers decided to encourage going green with all rebuilding. Very soon after the announcement that public buildings would be built green the State passed laws that forbid the practice. Same has happened in NC when towns built their own ISP because the for-profits would not build out. Soon it became illegal for towns to do so.

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In many areas the cost of a KW of solar is lower than what can be produced via fosil fuels.

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