I do believe that a good percentage of Cali power is imported from Canada. Just fine when they have the extra to send down the pike. Smoke and mirrors sometimes with pats on the back.
While this is surely not a scientific study, I can report that if one of my classes was beginning to get disorderly, simply turning-off the fluorescent lights had the dramatic effect of calming them down. The natural light coming in through the windows was sufficient for most classroom tasks.
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California gets it’s some of it’s natural gas from Canada, but not it’s electricity.
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Cali imports electricity directly from other states. Does not necessarily mean that the imported natural gas from Canada isn’t used to produce electricity in natural gas powered electric plants.
I think that is true for every state, with the glaring exception of Texas.
Hopefully they have learned that their form of energy independence can result in some really bad situations.
Good point. But even counting for that CA imports most of it’s natural gas. 27% does come from Canada. Half of their electricity is from natural gas. So that equates the Natural gas from Canada accounting for only about 13.5% of California’s energy.
Which still begs the question, in my mind, of why they’d ban natural gas appliances in some cities, counties, whatever, when they’re importing natural gas from a whole other country.
If you look at it from an optimist’s perspective, I guess you could conclude that they’re trying to reduce natural gas consumption so they don’t have to import.
If you look at it from a more cynical perspective, it’s a “hey look at how green we are” shell game that really doesn’t accomplish anything besides burdening a few individual consumers by not allowing them the option of natural gas appliances. They have to choose all electric appliances…that rely on a grid powered by 50% natural gas. Kind of a “do as I say not as I do” move by the local government. That kind of stuff (if indeed it is what it appears to my admittedly cynical mind) gets on my nerves.
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Has global warming occurred to you as a reason to ban new fossil fuel users? It’s very much like world wide bans on chloro-fluorocarbons. Have you tried to buy R-12 or R-134a? You might find them, but they were phased out or are in the process of phasing out.
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California is also LA LA land for a reason.
OK for you, but all the new schools in this area do not have windows.
That’s because turning the lights off meant it was movie time instead of lecture time. Oh what fun when you walked into class and saw the projector.
Ah, sure, of course. So quit importing natural gas from Canada. Then maybe the government can worry about my natural gas stove and water heater, gas powered generator, etc. I’m not going to get into the global warming conversation again other than to say I’m not on board with the excuse for every goofball government mandate to be explainable by “because global warming” Of all the problems in the world today and local governments are worried about some schmo’s choice of water heater. Gimme a break. Your opinion is free to vary.
Really?
I have to say that this surprises me.
Seems depressing. And potentially dangerous in the event of an emergency.
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I’d think so too, but this is Tornado country.
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Didn’t think of that really, and I’m in tornado country too. Still, schools have halls that you can get in that don’t have windows…
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But, at least they have A/C.
Our classrooms had no A/C, and the rooms that faced the courtyard could easily get to 95+ degrees in the hotter months. Just try getting sweaty teens motivated when the temps rise that high.
I don’t remember where anymore but some years ago the interior block walls in a school collapsed during a tornado with many injuries. Yeah I always moved people away from potential flying glass but that doesn’t mean that the classrooms or hallways are safe. If the walls are reinforced, and if the ceilings are concrete ok, but most are just steel trusses covered with tin.
In the 1960s, preparing for a nuclear attack was all the rage, at least in the DC area. There was no room or hallway without windows. The halls only had windows at one end, and that’s where we assumed the position during a-bomb drills.
In the '50s, we had both “short-notice” air raid drills and “long-notice” drills.
For the short-notice drills, we were directed to crouch under our desks. For the long-notice drills, we raced down to the windowless school basement where we crouched along the walls, with our hands covering the back of our necks.