Comments on: Study: Vast CA solar power possible using existing infrastructure https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/24/study-vast-ca-solar-power-possible-using-existing-infrastructure/ Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ricardo https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/24/study-vast-ca-solar-power-possible-using-existing-infrastructure/#comment-113311 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:57:52 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75596#comment-113311 In reply to Dawn Urbanek.

Can San Onofre be repurposed at a very little cost as a water powered turbine? Unfortunately, no.

]]> By: Richard Rider https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/24/study-vast-ca-solar-power-possible-using-existing-infrastructure/#comment-113067 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:25:45 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75596#comment-113067 We’ll know solar is a practical electricity generator when we can drop the 30% subsidy, and yet people and companies will still install solar. But it’s been too many years since we started this subsidy, and it appears that the massive solar tax credit is still essential to continue to get folks to install solar.

Hence solar is not (yet) the best method of producing electricity. Either way, drop the tax credit subsidy. AND the mandates.

]]> By: Dawn Urbanek https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/24/study-vast-ca-solar-power-possible-using-existing-infrastructure/#comment-112946 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:58:08 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75596#comment-112946 SDG&E is dismantling the San Onofre Nuculear Power Plant as we speak. That is a power generation plant that is right on the ocean and already attached to the power grid. It seems like it would be a perfect place to a truly sustainable energy source – the power of the Ocean currents. We have the technology to build ocean turbines which turn so slowly that fish can swim through. Can we re-purpose San O at very little cost and make use of the connections to the power grid?

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