Epoch Times - California Is Passing More & More Law To Mandate Renewable Energy #californiainsider
Aired: 2023-11-12
Duration: 00:57

[00:00:00]  California politicians have been passing laws mandating more and more renewable energy and celebrating that we're hitting our targets.
[00:00:07]  But if you look at what we really use to generate electricity in California, it's mostly natural gas.
[00:00:13]  It's mostly fossil fuels.
[00:00:14]  And sometimes it's imported electricity from other states.
[00:00:17]  And the reason for this is for all renewables, they only provide maybe 30% of what we need.
[00:00:23]  At night, far less.
[00:00:25]  Because it's mostly solar, and by the time the sun goes down, solar energy's at zero.
[00:00:29]  And people say, oh, well, batteries.
[00:00:31]  Well, batteries.
[00:00:31]  Maybe 3% of the energy we're using at night comes from batteries, and they run out by midnight.
[00:00:37]  So what are we running the state of California on?
[00:00:39]  When you plug your electric vehicle into your wall charger, it's charging on natural gas.
[00:00:44]  Also nuclear, large hydroelectric, and imported electricity.
[00:00:47]  That's what's running California.
[00:00:49]  So it's a fantasy that we can go to 100% renewable.
[00:00:53]  We can only go to 100% renewable if it's never summer and it's never night.