http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/powerlessness_san_diego_almost.html
November 13, 2007
Powerlessness: San Diego almost blacked-out
Thomas Lifson
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During the recent wildfires, San Diego came perilously close to being blacked out, thanks to the vulnerability of its connections to the national power grid and the low portion of its electric power that is generated locally. The ability to fight that disaster might have been crippled if electric power had been out for any extended period.
Craig Rose of the San Diego Union-Tribune explains the technical complexities involved. But the fundamental issues are clear:
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2. It is very, very hard (and expensive) to build high capacity transmission lines in this age of BANANA (“Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone”)
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A grown-up approach would be to balance the risks if insufficient local generating capacity with the risks of nuclear power, CO2 emissions, and the like.
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While France, a tree hugging country if I ever heard of one, gens more than half of its electricity nuke-wise, we can’t seem to get our act together. BANANA will ensure that we are screwed royally in so many different ways. Imagine what we could tell the sheiks, Chavez, and Putin that they could do with their oil? The gooferment ensure that nothing ever gets done.
Sigh!
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