You’re trying to replace our last nuclear plant with wind even though

- lack of reliable nuclear caused last summer’s blackouts

- there’s no wind during the heat waves that trigger blackouts

- it will further raise our prices, which already increased 7x more than rest of US
“People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006. The answer is... We had San Onofre [nuclear plant] of 2,200 MW, and a number of other plants, totalling thousands of MW not there today,” said Calif. grid operator during 2020 blackouts.

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“There was very little electricity from wind during the summer heatwave in California ... the same weather pattern, a stable high-pressure bubble, is the cause of heatwaves, since it brought very low wind for days on end along with very high temperatures”

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“Had California spent an estimated $100 billion on nuclear instead of on wind and solar, it would have had enough energy to replace all fossil fuels in its in-state electricity mix.”

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“In a filing to regulators last year, the California Independent System Operator warned that the system will reach a ‘critical inflection point’ after the Diablo Canyon [nuclear] plant is shuttered”

utilitydive.com/news/californi…
Renewables advocates claim renewables are efficient but in California it will take 11.5 GW of renewables, storage and nat gas to replace 2.2 GW of nuclear

“It's a really staggering number”

utilitydive.com/news/californi…
Renewables advocates claimed solar, wind, batteries would make natural gas unnecessary but blackouts in California in 2020 & Texas in 2021 proved that weather-dependent energies require more natural gas infrastructure not less, further raising costs

environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2021/…
“The investors who develop solar and wind supplies can only do so because the state and federal laws allow them to socialize the risks of their unreliability.”

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“Wealth spent on weather-dependent renewables is wealth not spent making the grid more resilient by maintaining & weatherizing reliable nuclear plants. Money that could have gone to making electrical grids more reliable thus instead went to equipment that made them more fragile”
“Wealth spent on increasing the amount of electricity transmission wires is wealth not spent clearing vegetation from around electrical lines, which has been a major cause of the fires that led to the bankruptcy of PG&E in California 2019, & power outages in 2019 and 2020.”
“Policies have subsidized and mandated less efficient sources of energy, weather-dependent wind and solar, which require far more land, transmission, and other infrastructure. Energy prices have risen, thus threatening economic growth, living standards, & societal resilience”

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27 May
Jacqui Berlinn, whose son is at risk of dying from fentanyl, is taking her historic StopFentanylDeaths.org protest to Skid Row, Los Angeles, next Wed. A.M., June 2 (time & location TBD)

I will again join her

We can't do this alone

Please read & RT this THREAD
Today we urged @GavinNewsom & @LondonBreed to break up California's open air drug scenes, enforce the law, and restore mandatory drug treatment/psych. care as an alternative to incarceration

Article by @TrishaThadani @sfchronicle

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It was an extremely emotional day, with a lot of sadness, anger, and frustration

I am struck by how much inchoate anger we saw, including from people expressing both gratitude toward us for organizing the protest & anger that we hadn't done so earlier

stopfentanyldeaths.org
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Please join @JacquiBerlinn & me at 11:30 am today in SF to protest fentanyl dealers & demand action from @GavinNewsom & other politicians

- 700+ OD deaths/year in SF & rising, 90k in US

- Addiction behind 31% increase in Calif. homelessness 2010-2020

- Corey’s life is at stake
I’m happy to confirm that all major Bay Area media are covering the protest, with commitments to appear from Supervisors @MattHaneySF @Ahsha_Safai schedules permitting with @LondonBreed & all other Supes warmly invited to attend & say a few words
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You, a person who lied, stole, and forged documents are trying censor an ethical scientist because he disagrees with you

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Why? Because you believe debunked & unethical Malthusian claims that there's not enough resources for universal prosperity
Here's a detailed explanation of how and why @PeterGleick is a pseudoscientific Malthusian ideologue who grossly misrepresents the science to advance the claim that the world doesn't have enough resources for all humans to enjoy high standards of living

environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/…
Peter Gleick is an admitted fraud. He lied to obtain documents & appears to have forged one of them, something he denies

The more one learns about this sordid affair the more it's clear that Gleick is a fanatic who regularly engages in unethical behavior

latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-…
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25 May
Funding from renewables & natural gas interests helps explain why Democrats, Greens, & broader Left in US and Europe are unconscionably silent about China's use of forced labor to make solar, replacing nuclear with nat gas & dangerous dependence on Russia

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/maybe-theyre…
Environmentalists, progressives, & Greens have long spoken out for human rights, energy security, and reducing air pollution, demanding stronger protections of indigenous people in Brazil, local energy production, and stronger measures to reduce carbon emissions.
And yet none of the world’s main green NGOs or leaders have condemned China’s use of enslaved labor to make solar panels, the replacement of nuclear plants with nat gas, or the dangerous dependence of the U.S. and Europe on Chinese solar and Russian natural gas.
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Nothing has worked. California’s laws & politicians aren’t helping

And so she’s going to protest the fentanyl dealers in San Francisco this Wednesday during the lunch hour

I will join her

PLEASE SHARE THIS THREAD
Jacqui: “The only way Corey will be able to escape his addiction is if he arrested, taken to court, and sentenced to mandatory drug treatment as an alternative to jail. But California’s laws no longer allow that.”
“It’s true that a lot of the war on drugs did more harm than good. But we have swung too far in the other direction. We have no other way to save our son from potential death. Corey could overdose and die from fentanyl or be killed in some other way. We are desperate for action.”
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2014 ballot measure decriminalized (from felony to misdemeanor) shoplifting/theft when value of stolen items = < $950

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- 17k dead from OD in 2000 —> 90k in 2020
In 2014 we Californians had a well-intentioned desire to end mass incarceration & racial disparity when we voted for Proposition 47 but we didn’t consider it might end up killing more poor people of color by fueling addiction and yet that’s precisely what has occurred.
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