Electric power change is blowing (unfrozen) in wind | News

Almost every day I read or see something about the switch from carbon-based fuels to electricity for transportation. I know I’ve talked about this before, but it’s emerging as a booming industry with a huge impact on everyone, and Kern County in particular, which derives much of its tax revenue and employment from petroleum.

As I mentioned earlier, a lot of this news is about the move from internal combustion engines to vehicles that run on what people once called “juice”.

Our governor’s proclamation that only electrically powered vehicles will be sold in California after 2035, which is causing trouble for many people here in Kern County, will become obsolete as an automaker after the automaker promises to be fully electric five years earlier.

One of the problems with this transformation is the slow adoption of electric vehicles by American drivers compared to drivers in other countries, particularly China, one of the largest auto markets in the world.

This problem will be solved as more and more of these vehicles come onto the market and slowly but surely replace vehicles with internal combustion engines.

One problem concerns charging stations. While people in single-family houses may have home fees, it can be an issue if you live in apartment buildings.

This is an intermediate problem that is resolved when vehicle batteries are charged by roof-mounted solar panels.

Someone recently discovered that one of the advantages of electric cars is that they can be charged at home while we eat, work, and shop.

No more visits to gas stations where our hands smell of gasoline or diesel and expose us to disease.

Charging the battery will also be faster.

One of the fastest ways to reap the benefits and savings of solar energy is to install solar panels on homes. We did this a few years ago to reduce the annual cost of cooling our house in the desert summer.

It was a great success.

A side effect occurred a few years ago when we had a leak in our house’s natural gas pipeline.

My plumber was reluctant to crawl under the house to find the leak, so we turned off part of the line and left only the water heater and the house heater connected.

Cooking on electricity is cheaper and faster and I plan to replace my aging water heater with an electric unit. We had one when we lived in Golden Hills in the late 1970s, which worked fine but was expensive in those years before the solar panel.

The price of solar panels, like everything, goes down as more people install them.

Home heating is a big deal and probably won’t be in my house at my advanced age.

My detached garage has a huge gas heater that once warmed the mechanics at Kieffe and Sons Ford. Since I’ve rarely used the thing, it is not missed, especially the cost of running the animal and its pilot light in winter. It was so big that I never let it run at full blast.

Change is the way of the world and unfortunately difficult to accept for some people. Unfortunately, California’s three largest electric utilities are trying to make solar energy more expensive for users as it hurts their profits.

You want us to help pay for the infrastructure that we no longer need after the solar switch is complete.

Which will be fine with me, since Edison’s power is turned off several times a year in Southern California, as is our power when we lived in Northern Virginia.

My answer to the question of what happens when the sun isn’t shining is the one I gave to a man who asked me how Mojave’s solar powered street lights work when the sun isn’t shining.

Since we hear so much about how better life is in Texas, it was interesting to read about the recent weather debacle.

Texas just wasn’t ready to face a cold snap, and utilities all over this big state froze.

Including wind turbines that made renewable energy enemies say, “I told you.”

My first question was why our area keeps turning wind turbines that get cold in winter and occasionally snow, especially between Mojave and Tehachapi, where many of the region’s wind turbines are located.

I called Linda Parker from Bakersfield who has been representing the local renewable energy industry for years.

She found that local wind turbines have been weathered since they were first installed in the early 1980s.

Texans also had problems with freezing water pipes and other utilities, and couldn’t get electricity from neighboring states because, unlike California and most other states, they don’t participate in regional electricity grids.

This decision was made to supposedly “protect Texas from the federal government” that governs interstate power grids.

You apparently didn’t think of being shut down by Mother Nature.

By the way, some people used the electricity in their electric car batteries to partially power their homes during the freeze.

By the way, Texas has the largest number of wind turbines of any state, even more than California.

And apparently none of them are weathered.

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