its amazing how many things like these are basically under the normal persons radar.. im glad your pointing these things out... people need to be aware of this, and at the same time realize the implications of what this does to the whole system..
One big reason is too many coal fired power plants have been shut down because of the stupid Sierra club I know because me and my father worked at 1:00 for a total of 60 years now it's closed because of some butt hurt people
The biggest coal fired generator in California was shut down a couple years ago their stockpiling coal now the town is called t r o n a California it's in a far northern part of San Bernardino county San Bernardino also has its own generating plant on San Bernardino avenue in Redlands Loma Linda we supplied power to the Hoover dam I was being built in 1935
It's strange someone making an allegation in a newsletter, but not knowing the outcome of the suit. It seems really suspicious. Or is there something to it?
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Ive walked/ jogged that trai I think. Is it off Equestrian / Wagon wheel. They have track peddlers that go on the railroad tracks and nice picnic areas as well
I live in Vermont and I'm sure glad I get my power from a small independent town supplier. Everyone else around me in this area are part of a bigger conglomerate of power suppliers or get it from hydro Quebec in Canada but not me! I like getting it from a small "island" power supplier surrounded in a sea of bigger suppliers. My rates are VERY afforable even in the summer! I consider myself blessed despite the power issues many people are facing especially out in California. I wouldn't move there if someone paid me to! Great informative videos and thank you for keeping us up to date and informed with the energy crisis out there! SUBSCRIBED!
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
@@SweetOsoka From the Missisquoi river. The same power source used since the early 1800s which the settlers used to turn water wheels at first. It’s a naturally fed river that starts or has it sources from natural springs. And there’s a huge group of water falls right there which is where they decided to set up shop back 200 years ago or so. Used to have a water mill and lumber mill there but that’s long gone. The power station is running strong. And no one is up river drawing on it. The water still flows freely down river and in the spring we get a lot of flooding from the run off from all the ice jams and melting snow from the mountains and Jay Peak ski area.
I have worked in the industry all my life from the plant to the outlet and every transformer and voltage in between having said that there's a lot going on here but the grid is not set up to where one place can only have so much they can bleed it dry until somebody turns the switch that turns on some more switches or off as far as Hoover dams capacity at the moment I do not see much left at all because there's not enough head right now to be powering one, in my opinion . they say there's more than one running but I don't see that in the output side, I see one valve open on the downside and that's it . the other day when it caught on fire where the transformers set and that is not where the turbines are anyway I saw it, then or you can see the outflow of water under that particular transformer.
It doesn't surprise me I live in a city in California years ago I was always in tier 5 having 5 kids 600 or more a month electric bill I bought 32 solar panels to eliminate Edison only problem where I live they won't let me have a battery back up system cause they use my power to sale to the naibors and then send me back my excess power so there taking my power to sale to the naibors with this smart meter what do u call that stealing in my opinion also that Smart meter constantly communicating with other smart meters creates 10 to 15 dollars in energy a month on it's own that I have to pay for I bought 32 panels I should have the right to have a battery back up and go of grid. There is a video of a guy rebuilding his whole house only one wall left wa the wall holding the smart meter nothing whole house is gone he was getting a 15 dollars a month electric bill just from the smart meter communication to other smart meters it's on UA-cam u can look up that video it's all BS my power should be mine or I should be able to sale my extra output at my decided cost excellent video keep up the excellent work
We have 46 solar panels with battery backup for 2 years now, so not too concerned about Cali. Out here in Pahrump, Valley Electric (COOP) is the source of power for Pahrump. Two years ago Valley Electric informed us that they will be suppling power to California...go figure.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
As for California withholding energy paid for by other states and being transmitted on California grids then being withheld!!! WTF That is something FERC needs to address with something more than a fine. Arizona requires all of the power bought and paid for transmitted through California's grid. I plan on watching this one!
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia river also sends a huge chunk of it's electricity to California. They raise Oregonians rates to make us use less power so they can send it to CA.
We were sent a letter by our power company asking us to reduce our power consumption to help California thru their power shortage during the hot months. We're in Nevada. And yet CA is still planning on closing their biggest source of power, Diablo Nuclear power station. This is what happens when they close power plants and build windmills. Windmills produce power less than 30% of the time. So they are 70% worthless.
Back maybe 15 years ago, when i first started making trips to Laughlin and Bullhead city monthly, there was a huge power plant, Edison, right in Laughlin. Huge smokestack or whatever, huge plant. Seemed to be a good thing, coal fired or gas or whatever. Didn't seem to bother the air, probably made much needed power for the area, or wherever they could sell it to or trade it to. Then, either right then or within a few years, they blew it up. The water outflow structure still exists along the River, near Harrah's beach, but the plant is no more. One possible (insert conspiracy theorist label here) scenario is that there has been a push to eliminate ALL inexpensive and significant power production facilities in the southwest. Example are San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern california, the Edison plant in Laughlin. Now, the news and authorities put us in a position of rolling blackouts, rate hikes. They want us to buy into solar and wind (solar destroys the ecosystems where they put it, resulting in desertification as that soil used to be held down by plants and desert animals) which cannot produce even a fraction of what Edison and San Onofre produced at it's peak, let alone 24/7, and they can only produce it when the conditions are "just right" (sunnny and windy.) Fast forward to Joe Senile Biden stealing the election, and he has shut down a major oil pipeline in the central part of the US. (most people don't know that MOST of the power made in the Us comes from coal and fossil fuel driven plants). In addition, they are mandating that everything, even cars and truck, run directly on electricity. You can say whatever you like about President Trump, and this isn't a political expose, but under his administration the United States became oil ( and thus energy) INDEPENDENT. That is a numerical fact. I deal directly in energy derivatives, currency and other financials so we accumulate this data and that I can say is true. A few years later, we are the beggars for energy and power, and the price increases you see are a result of that fact. Price increase is a results of supply decreasing relative to demand. In the past few years, decades, the supply has been cut, except for in the Trump Admin, and the demand has likely increased. My conclusion: all the problems "they" say we have with electrical power availability were not just foreseen decades ago, but were actually planned. Any 6th grader can do the math: adding up the electricity needed and forecasted needed and subtracting the available electrical power and forecasted electrical power The why is up for speculation, but the darkest view seems to be control of the population , even dead, because, people don't live well and prosper in this current advanced society without electricity. If power is shut off in the summer or fall, people will suffer and some will die. Same with water. I don't like this conclusion, it darkens my day. I thought I had it made once I learned to make enough money to travel to and from where I love to live in Southern California, drive a few hours to the Colorado and stay in Lake Havasu, Laughlin, to Las vegas, back to Newport Beach back to the coachella valley. What a great life. There is something truly special about the land area in Mojave county that is different from other places. Now I have to see that this is likely the plan of some idiots who have no joy in their life, they have some spiritual or mental affliction, to INTENTIONALLY make us go backwards in time, to a time when there was no water around, no electricity, and to essentially lie about it and say its because we are "harming the planet." I think we need to shift our focus from these manufactured problems, to the folks who are lying by manufacturing them. We can build a structure as AWESOME as the physical hoover dam (you can just feel the incredibleness when you walk on it) but we cannot stop destroying power plants and creating lack? I find this disturbing, first that is it happening, and second that most people are so caught up in the news of it, like me. We need to focus on removing the individuals who are acting to make this happen.
Hi Orthopraxis. Thank you for your very in depth comment. I appreciate you taking the time to write it. And I do agree, in America we seem to be becoming the beggars for many things. I hope things don't get worse....
Liz..... If Ca is having such power issues they should allow the shuttered power plants, that the state, in all its infinate wisdom, aren't running because of environmental issues", should be restarted and run as needed to help out. But rather than doing something that makes sense, they are going to make other states make up the difference, and make the customers/people pay for it! Surely the water situation in the lakes is/will continue to make matters worse. Which brings me to another subject. It is well known that Los Angeles allows as much as 80% of its water allowance is allowed to run out to sea. And as for lakes Powell and Mead. Do in large part of the ever increasing demand of the lower basin states, I wonder that even at its best, can the upper Colorado basin provide enough water to keep the lakes levels high enough to maintain consistent power generation. And yes, the drought is a big contributor to the problems. And of course, some of this really is IMHO. Liz, your updates are wonderful. Keep em coming!
@@liannebedard5521 so let California steal electricity because a corrupt company did it once? At least them people are in jail. What’s happening to the California government? That’s right! A raise for them and stolen electricity for you?
Most people do not have the knowledge to store power in a battery and then connect it to an inverter or just run 12 or 24. Volts people are clueless ! especially the ones with Pop sticks !
Don't know about "stealing" power from other states... But California does purchase power from Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear plant and Washington's hydro-electric generation or other suppliers of energy outside the state with excess capacity.... Kind of like buying oil from Saudi Arabia or owning an electric car... They can claim lower emissions here if it comes from somewhere else... Good luck with that!...
Ours are going up too in Australia gas and electric I got letters too last few weeks Big Surprise hey What starts in California spreads too the rest of the world, See Jed Clampet
Among other reasons why I moved to Solar power. I’d blame, Mostly SCE and PG&E. These two companies have a poor track record for managing things here in CA.
yeah blame it on the companies lol.. wouldn't want to your lovely left wing scum bags coming after you and deffinitly wouldn't want to consider it was them flooding your state and grid with illegals, gobbling up 20% of your grid. wouldn't want to push back on the woke idiots. solar is such bs still. you do realize that the them panels you got caused umm i donno...guessing 10 years worth of carbon burn off of fusel fuels..so you might pay that system off in about the same time your carbon foot print ends from the production of them panels, right? ..lol was bragn rights one of the reasons btw? i already know it was lol.. your leaps and bounds further ahead of us in moral status.
About 20 years ago in August there was an earthquake in the LA area which knock offline some of their generating units. So California was begging for power from other states like Nevada. When this the price of power on the open market can jump from $20 Mwh up to $100 Mwh. Si if you have spare power to sell you can make millions. Well in the Las Vegas area at the same time thunderstorm moved in. This resulted in the demand for power in the Las Vegas service area to drop. Rain and cloud cover with dropping temps mean the power demand drops a lot. This means Nevada power had a lot of excess generating capacity over what their demand was. So Nevada power was able to sell many many Mwh's of excess power to California at top dollar and make millions of dollars. But this was enough for greedy Nevada Power. They called all of the casinos that had emergency gas turbine generators and told them that there was a power emergency and they were short on power. They asked or told the casinos to turn on their those emergency gas turbine generators. In reality Nevada power plenty of excess power to sell at that time. They sold that excess power to California plus the many Mwh's of power that normally would of gone to the casinos. Nevada power make a killing doing this and lied to the casinos. Just to show you that Nevada power will not hesitate to lie to you and cheat you. By the way the top executives at Nevada Power are the sleaziest bunch you have ever seen. One sleazy CEO at NVP was married to a lawyer. He was a douchbag and his executives hated him. His girlfriend came to visit him at office. His executives called his wife and told her. She went to the Pearson building and walked into his office catching him banging his girlfriend on his desk. She divorced him and took him to the cleaners.
Hello Liz. I've been a lawyer for 44 years, now retired and living in Henderson. I saw this video and am intrigued. I still have access to all Federal court filings, and suspect the case you're talking about in the video, in terms of seeing court-filed documents. In my experience both publicly owned and privately owned water utilities don't work in the public interest, so why should electrical power providers be any different???? They all have hidden agenda, even the public or user owned ones. I will shoot you an email so you can describe the "tells" on the story/document you found about the "power stealing", and I will see if I can find the case. Then I will send you the key PDFs of the court files, and you can do a second story on the power-grab. If the case hasn't settled or gone to trial, it sure would be fun and interesting for a group of ordinary citizens to formally intervene, so that no shifty settlements could be secretly made by the power players.
Oh California. You should watch a documentary on Enron. It was a Houston Texas based electric company that was responsible for the rolling blackouts in California back in the 90's.
I hardly hear anyone mentioning this. Enron even has a 9/11 connection in the WTC Towers at the time too and how 9/11 conveniently destroyed a huge paper trail stored there. No telling how deep the Enron rabbit hole went. If they were willing to laugh at old people losing their houses (the taped recordings are disgusting) from the fires they were setting from faulty equipment what else were they willing to do?
@@coreym162 it's so hard to distinguish truth from lies any more. I feel like I'm living the "Truman Show" Jim Carey movie. Doctors only treat people, not cure them. Banks take your money. I just wish this was all over.
This whole mindset California has is incredibly dangerous. Just because it works in a California city to occasionally escape doesn't mean it's going to translate well across the country. If anything it's just going to make living in some of the colder areas during the winter almost impossible. Do people really think Alaskans are just going to go electric?? How are Alaskans supposed to get parts or replacement vehicles? What about during power outages, storms, wildfires, and other emergencies - how are people supposed to "fill up" a battery quickly? Even a 15 minute charge time at a station is too long during an emergency. How are you supposed to help cars that run out of energy on the side of the road? Can't fill up a gas can at a pump and bring it to them. There's so many issues with this extreme push away from fossil fuels. California can't even keep up with it's own energy demands as it is but it wants to go even further? Madness. Literal insanity. And their grand solution is to keep fossil fuel plants around just for the times when they have peak energy demand. Meaning they're going to have to have the taxpayers pay to keep these old facilities maintained, even when not in operation during peak hours, because no business is going to see that as profitable.
Small nuclear power plants are going to be the answer for all latitudes 45 and up. At least 4, probably six, will be running in Canada within 10 years and after that they'll be everywhere providing power to smaller towns and cities. They are very similar to reactors running aircraft carriers, subs etc. Factory build, assembly line style, they will be cheap enough.
Great report & keep us posted! At least you can throw up some solar panels & generate all the juice you need in LV as hydro wanes. Just wait until the water wars really heat up. Nevada is 7th in line for a pittance of what remains in the Colorado River. That's where the real focus should be. Keep cool 😎!
Nevada is not going to lose any water. AZ and CA will take the water cuts. Las Vegas is a model southwestern city when it comes to water use. Over 80% of the water is used by farms in AZ and CA. They grow thirsty crops like cotton and RICE. That's where the cuts will be. Nevada's water share is only 4%. No worries here.
I do not like the idea of Casio being able to override the priority of a state. Something is very wrong here. As far as original agreements with other states I believe that is only honorable the California must live up to these agreements.
Great job on this report Liz, I had no idea! This is another example of the incompetence in leadership within California. When will their voters wake up and stop voting for reasons of political party loyalty and instead vote for who will do what's best for the state and its taxpayers, regardless of party.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Our electric and gas rates in Colorado where I live have gone up 34% and 18% year on year, Liz. Stupid governor and progressive legislature have strangled the coal, gas and oil industry with regulations intended to drive them out of business while at the same time they shut down perfectly good energy plants that could deliver power to the user. I hope people think real hard this upcoming election before pulling that D handle because were headed for a dire recession if we continue on this insane new green deal course of economic destruction.
Basically? FERC OFF! We're going to raise your rates to the ROOF before the power goes off. BTW: My blueberries are loaded this year, and they don't have "Organic" written on them. That's where you paid $12...
I feel sorry for the vast majority of Americans especially those out west having to depend on major power companies because it just puts more demand on an already taxed out power grid and the more people hook on, the worse it's going to get. With my power company, if a line goes down or a transformer blows or even a natural disaster, the guys in my town get right on it. In fact, I can't remember a time where I was ever without power for a day or more. Half a day maybe but usually never more than that. I consider myself very blessed for living in this part of the country and yes...independent power companies STILL DO EXIST!
An eastern megadrought can affect Niagara Falls Power here in Ontario Canada which powers the entire golden horseshoe. Hopefully, this situation does not happen here.
Living in British Columbia... and 100% hydropower, it blows my mind that everybody living in a totally sunny environment... like California, doesn't have solar on their roof. Sure it is expensive, but the peace of mind... and a potential gas station on the roof to give the middle finger to those other corporate a-holes... priceless. Ditto the same story for Australia.
Its not only panels that you need but also battery. Also they are not forever,you have to change tham,also battery is omiting electro magnetic polution.
there is a lot of solar in Southern California the only issue is the utility companies buy excess power from homeowners at a reduced rate compared to what they sell it or sell power back for. They are also always trying to get out of paying for the power or adding fees to solar producers. The CPUC oversees the regulation of utility companies but like anything big business has big money to put towards keeping profits high and influencing regulators and politicians.
Gavin Newsom can buy us water and power...Thanks Gavin...we all need to fill our swimming pools here in Los Angeles. Gavin has unlimited federal dollars...friend of Joe and Nancy.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Time to get off the grid and buy your own solar panels and a Sun Gold Power Inverter and a set of 48 volt battery banks that rate 6000 watts and can be combined up the 96,000k watts with added inverters hooked in Parallel.
Solar panels are only 19% effective in the best conditions and drop to 18% after one hour of usage. If it snows, you get less; if they get dirty, you get less. If it get too hot it stops working all together. Rare Earth mineral mining and battery disposal are also a huge problem.
@@michaelparker5030 Solar panels like cold weather like most electronics do, in the winter time solar panel could collect more power if they had the same hours as the summer months do. They don't just stop working in the heat unless you have bought a junk brand name, the newer solar panel have clear Backing glass so the sun light can come from the back side reflecting off the snow in winter and melt off the snow from both sides and produce more power. the newer panels out have a 22% efficiency and it getting better as newer panels come on line. Micro inverters that use one solar panel per micro inverter is the best way to go and can be used Off grid if you know what you are doing with AC coupling.
@@johnward5890 "could" & "if" are key words. Considering they will almost never have the same hours of sun light in winter as in summer, seems like a bad argument. I guess most of European Countries have junk brands because current heatwave is a major concern. 22% efficiency rating (if true, haven't seen that stat) still isn't very good and only in the best of conditions. No reference to rare Earth mineral mining or disposal.
@@michaelparker5030 That why a system is build for the months that you get the least amount of sun light. You never build a system for summer time if that is your only power source, people like me have wood heat backup so i would need as much hydro as others would need. depending on you time zone and the distance for the equator are all calculation factors, winter time angle of the panels also has a contributing factor. Finding what works for you is the way you find the proper setup for your needs. some people have backup generators to recharge the battery banks in a couple hour each week for those days of no sun or intermittent sunny days, some have wind generators that work better at night than they do in the day time. It's not all solar energy to become self contained.
@@johnward5890 a reasonable plan with backups. Not against any currently known forms of energy, but.... Can't be over dependent on any one form of energy.
You say California steals power okay is it PG&e Pacific gas and electric is it Southern California Edison is it Los Angeles power and water there's so many big companies in Southern California who are you to blame I'll tell you something crazy I'm disabled I'm on what they call the care package my power bill runs $30 a month all I have running is an electric fan a refrigerator one light my bathroom and one in my kitchen and an electric fan that's it $30 a month oh and my breathalyzer machine that helps me breathe so what do we do?? It is what it is they're all thieves they're all stealing but what can you do we're just individuals like me and you we have no say so we have nothing if we put our finger in a pile of poop and stir it up all it's going to do is stink they figure that you are trying to make them look bad it's a shut your power off for good be careful what you do and be careful what you say because it's going to affect all of us not just you love your program
Where is the wind power and Solar. Why are they using more power than there state can produce. Why do other states have to provide there power . This all makes no sense
Im gonna Build my self a steam Engine Powered Generator I have 10 acres of Trees and Plenty of Water and a machine shop to build it in. and 50 years experience as a Tool Maker Yes....
Maybe you can get some ecoflow or bluetti portable power stations with available solar panel packs. these can power your fridges and freezers and they have a cooling system 'wave' unit that is efficient for airconditioning. You would need to read 50 or 60 Ph.D. thesis to get the answers. but the short answer is as, on the news, texas, and California have the generating stations to fill the backlog but let texas citizens die of cold because they didn't agree with some executive order to cut pollution to exact levels. on purpose. so democrats have done it in the past and so will do it in the future. That is the good news. Hoover dam, for example, has 17 turbines, 5 of which are actually working only because of upgrades, which are difficult, since the cores weigh 500 tons. The dam fire was one of those 5 so now there are 4. no one is saying that. the deserts are filling with solar panels to provide power without anyone knowing about it.
Liz 👸🌹😉❤️(sure, why not?! 😘) I think CA has "stolen" or siphoned, energy before. Used to live in the Burbank (yes, beautiful downtown Burbank!) Area years ago, & even tho the population was not as high as it is now, there were still days of brown outs. But it seems these were during peak season. Water usage too. With Mead (great video, too 👸) & to some degree (no pun) Lake Powell, slowly drying up - hate to say it - and one day... Not enough water to run the hydro generators. Please stay hydrated, and be safe in this rough heat. Thank you 🌹
@@lakelasvegaslife7903 thanks for the reply 🌹 are there any ideas that can alleviate the water crisis? Once Mead goes dry, or too low... That's it. Are you making " get outta here while the gettings good!" Plans? 👸🌹
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
@@spencerwinston4334 maybe California could build desalination plants by the coast - there's lots of miles - to bring water to parts of the state. Sea water would be free!
@@j.lietka9406 Superb idea, why hasn't that ftm, fem lady Gov. N. with female S curve traits pretending to be a man not taken this logical common sense action? As Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, "common sense is just genius dressed up in its working clothes." Either pretty lady Gavin N.does not have common sense or she does not have the literal "stones" to take remedial actions to help the citizens of that once beacon of freedom, but now just an Orwellian open-air prison state. We have proven Gavin is a woman with those beady eyes, female flowing hair, and S curve back, so Aristotlean logic dictates that Gavin N. does not have the "stones" to make an urgent rational common sense action on water and power policy. Regards for the feedback and compelling idea.
Also, sorry, California does this with the water supply as well. As they financed a third pump at the bottom of Lake Mead, essentially sucking the lake dry to support their economy, they still have trillions of gallons of water reserved in many lakes/reservoirs throughout the state. God Bless.
This shouldn't be a surprise. They've been doing it with water since the 1900s and "unintentionally" created the largest man made lake (Salton Sea). It's just called "priority" (not stealing). The more people, the more power they have (pun intended). 😐
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
How many are greedily mining crypto currencies to fatten their digital wallets while people are going hours without power because of grid issues? I wonder how many of those crypto currency people are the same ones talking about going green and buying electric cars.
L.A.'s fine the sun shines most the time. And the feeling is lay back.
Jerry's final thoughts on Friday's show.
its amazing how many things like these are basically under the normal persons radar.. im glad your pointing these things out... people need to be aware of this, and at the same time realize the implications of what this does to the whole system..
Thank you for this Liz.
Thanks for watching Cathy Bess, I appreciate it!
One big reason is too many coal fired power plants have been shut down because of the stupid Sierra club I know because me and my father worked at 1:00 for a total of 60 years now it's closed because of some butt hurt people
a so it begins ,the fight for Electricity and ------------------------- Water !
Thx Liz, really good info, I’m in Alaska so was not aware of the stolen power , California u know wouldn’t put it past them to do it
The biggest coal fired generator in California was shut down a couple years ago their stockpiling coal now the town is called t r o n a California it's in a far northern part of San Bernardino county San Bernardino also has its own generating plant on San Bernardino avenue in Redlands Loma Linda we supplied power to the Hoover dam I was being built in 1935
Great video Liz, thanks for the info, I did not know this. More unbelievable info about California.
Great info. Liz the truth teller! :)
It's strange someone making an allegation in a newsletter, but not knowing the outcome of the suit. It seems really suspicious. Or is there something to it?
I was thinking the same
Likely another financial red herring... Like Climate Change....
To the people of Las Vegas as lake Mead gets lower so will your property value.you better sell while you can.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Nice report. Thank you Liz.
Ive walked/ jogged that trai I think. Is it off Equestrian / Wagon wheel. They have track peddlers that go on the railroad tracks and nice picnic areas as well
Liz, love ❤ your show
Where does lake las Vegas get its water from?
From Lake Mead, haven't you seen that on the news?
I live in Vermont and I'm sure glad I get my power from a small independent town supplier. Everyone else around me in this area are part of a bigger conglomerate of power suppliers or get it from hydro Quebec in Canada but not me! I like getting it from a small "island" power supplier surrounded in a sea of bigger suppliers. My rates are VERY afforable even in the summer! I consider myself blessed despite the power issues many people are facing especially out in California. I wouldn't move there if someone paid me to!
Great informative videos and thank you for keeping us up to date and informed with the energy crisis out there! SUBSCRIBED!
You get your electricity from a small supplier but where is that supplier gets its electriity?
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
@@SweetOsoka From the Missisquoi river. The same power source used since the early 1800s which the settlers used to turn water wheels at first. It’s a naturally fed river that starts or has it sources from natural springs. And there’s a huge group of water falls right there which is where they decided to set up shop back 200 years ago or so. Used to have a water mill and lumber mill there but that’s long gone. The power station is running strong. And no one is up river drawing on it. The water still flows freely down river and in the spring we get a lot of flooding from the run off from all the ice jams and melting snow from the mountains and Jay Peak ski area.
I live in Arkansas and I think the sealed bowls of fruit at 3.99 are insane here.
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FERCing crazy
I have worked in the industry all my life from the plant to the outlet and every transformer and voltage in between having said that there's a lot going on here but the grid is not set up to where one place can only have so much they can bleed it dry until somebody turns the switch that turns on some more switches or off as far as Hoover dams capacity at the moment I do not see much left at all because there's not enough head right now to be powering one, in my opinion . they say there's more than one running but I don't see that in the output side, I see one valve open on the downside and that's it . the other day when it caught on fire where the transformers set and that is not where the turbines are anyway I saw it, then or you can see the outflow of water under that particular transformer.
Informative, thx.
It doesn't surprise me I live in a city in California years ago I was always in tier 5 having 5 kids 600 or more a month electric bill I bought 32 solar panels to eliminate Edison only problem where I live they won't let me have a battery back up system cause they use my power to sale to the naibors and then send me back my excess power so there taking my power to sale to the naibors with this smart meter what do u call that stealing in my opinion also that Smart meter constantly communicating with other smart meters creates 10 to 15 dollars in energy a month on it's own that I have to pay for I bought 32 panels I should have the right to have a battery back up and go of grid. There is a video of a guy rebuilding his whole house only one wall left wa the wall holding the smart meter nothing whole house is gone he was getting a 15 dollars a month electric bill just from the smart meter communication to other smart meters it's on UA-cam u can look up that video it's all BS my power should be mine or I should be able to sale my extra output at my decided cost excellent video keep up the excellent work
We have 46 solar panels with battery backup for 2 years now, so not too concerned about Cali. Out here in Pahrump, Valley Electric (COOP) is the source of power for Pahrump. Two years ago Valley Electric informed us that they will be suppling power to California...go figure.
We plan to retire in Pahrump ...Can you recommend a good Company? Thanks
I also had no idea that CA was stealing power. Thank you Liz for your report, and please keep up the great work
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Now…. Who want’s electric cars. Add millions of electric cars to their electric woes, scary.
Love the info and you have a nice voice + beautiful!!!
THX LIZ GOOD CHANNEL!!
As for California withholding energy paid for by other states and being transmitted on California grids then being withheld!!! WTF That is something FERC needs to address with something more than a fine. Arizona requires all of the power bought and paid for transmitted through California's grid. I plan on watching this one!
Thanks for watching Deanna Lee, I appreciate your comment!
Most of the lakes water loss has been the last 2 years. Yall might have that long left but I doubt it. I give yall a year.
My day just got better seeing this stunning woman. Thank you. Have a great day!
Thanks Liz. Good reporting and you look GREAT! 😊
Only men can do that. Whatever it is. Thank you Liz for being so kind to make this video oh and by the way I love your red dress.
Thank you Cathy Bess for watching the video!
No matter how you slice it, theft is Always Thief!
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia river also sends a huge chunk of it's electricity to California. They raise Oregonians rates to make us use less power so they can send it to CA.
We were sent a letter by our power company asking us to reduce our power consumption to help California thru their power shortage during the hot months. We're in Nevada. And yet CA is still planning on closing their biggest source of power, Diablo Nuclear power station.
This is what happens when they close power plants and build windmills. Windmills produce power less than 30% of the time. So they are 70% worthless.
Back maybe 15 years ago, when i first started making trips to Laughlin and Bullhead city monthly, there was a huge power plant, Edison, right in Laughlin. Huge smokestack or whatever, huge plant. Seemed to be a good thing, coal fired or gas or whatever. Didn't seem to bother the air, probably made much needed power for the area, or wherever they could sell it to or trade it to.
Then, either right then or within a few years, they blew it up. The water outflow structure still exists along the River, near Harrah's beach, but the plant is no more.
One possible (insert conspiracy theorist label here) scenario is that there has been a push to eliminate ALL inexpensive and significant power production facilities in the southwest. Example are San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern california, the Edison plant in Laughlin. Now, the news and authorities put us in a position of rolling blackouts, rate hikes. They want us to buy into solar and wind (solar destroys the ecosystems where they put it, resulting in desertification as that soil used to be held down by plants and desert animals) which cannot produce even a fraction of what Edison and San Onofre produced at it's peak, let alone 24/7, and they can only produce it when the conditions are "just right" (sunnny and windy.)
Fast forward to Joe Senile Biden stealing the election, and he has shut down a major oil pipeline in the central part of the US. (most people don't know that MOST of the power made in the Us comes from coal and fossil fuel driven plants). In addition, they are mandating that everything, even cars and truck, run directly on electricity. You can say whatever you like about President Trump, and this isn't a political expose, but under his administration the United States became oil ( and thus energy) INDEPENDENT. That is a numerical fact. I deal directly in energy derivatives, currency and other financials so we accumulate this data and that I can say is true. A few years later, we are the beggars for energy and power, and the price increases you see are a result of that fact. Price increase is a results of supply decreasing relative to demand. In the past few years, decades, the supply has been cut, except for in the Trump Admin, and the demand has likely increased.
My conclusion: all the problems "they" say we have with electrical power availability were not just foreseen decades ago, but were actually planned. Any 6th grader can do the math: adding up the electricity needed and forecasted needed and subtracting the available electrical power and forecasted electrical power The why is up for speculation, but the darkest view seems to be control of the population , even dead, because, people don't live well and prosper in this current advanced society without electricity. If power is shut off in the summer or fall, people will suffer and some will die. Same with water.
I don't like this conclusion, it darkens my day. I thought I had it made once I learned to make enough money to travel to and from where I love to live in Southern California, drive a few hours to the Colorado and stay in Lake Havasu, Laughlin, to Las vegas, back to Newport Beach back to the coachella valley. What a great life. There is something truly special about the land area in Mojave county that is different from other places.
Now I have to see that this is likely the plan of some idiots who have no joy in their life, they have some spiritual or mental affliction, to INTENTIONALLY make us go backwards in time, to a time when there was no water around, no electricity, and to essentially lie about it and say its because we are "harming the planet." I think we need to shift our focus from these manufactured problems, to the folks who are lying by manufacturing them. We can build a structure as AWESOME as the physical hoover dam (you can just feel the incredibleness when you walk on it) but we cannot stop destroying power plants and creating lack? I find this disturbing, first that is it happening, and second that most people are so caught up in the news of it, like me. We need to focus on removing the individuals who are acting to make this happen.
Hi Orthopraxis. Thank you for your very in depth comment. I appreciate you taking the time to write it. And I do agree, in America we seem to be becoming the beggars for many things. I hope things don't get worse....
Liz..... If Ca is having such power issues they should allow the shuttered power plants, that the state, in all its infinate wisdom, aren't running because of environmental issues", should be restarted and run as needed to help out. But rather than doing something that makes sense, they are going to make other states make up the difference, and make the customers/people pay for it! Surely the water situation in the lakes is/will continue to make matters worse. Which brings me to another subject. It is well known that Los Angeles allows as much as 80% of its water allowance is allowed to run out to sea. And as for lakes Powell and Mead. Do in large part of the ever increasing demand of the lower basin states, I wonder that even at its best, can the upper Colorado basin provide enough water to keep the lakes levels high enough to maintain consistent power generation. And yes, the drought is a big contributor to the problems. And of course, some of this really is IMHO. Liz, your updates are wonderful. Keep em coming!
And people wander why texas don’t connect their power grid to the rest of the country.
Enron was Texas based...proudly attempting to bankrupt California utility customers. A fine example of cowboy capitalism...
@@liannebedard5521 so let California steal electricity because a corrupt company did it once? At least them people are in jail. What’s happening to the California government? That’s right! A raise for them and stolen electricity for you?
Get solar on your roof with battery storage. Boom. Problem solved.
Most people do not have the knowledge to store power in a battery and then connect it to an inverter or just run 12 or 24. Volts people are clueless ! especially the ones with Pop sticks !
Thanks for what you are doing Liz. I like the direction your channel is going in. We need more citizen reports and journalism 👍
Don't know about "stealing" power from other states... But California does purchase power from Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear plant and Washington's hydro-electric generation or other suppliers of energy outside the state with excess capacity.... Kind of like buying oil from Saudi Arabia or owning an electric car... They can claim lower emissions here if it comes from somewhere else... Good luck with that!...
They get surplus power from British Columbia as well. All west coast are connected on a grid.
Ours are going up too in Australia gas and electric
I got letters too last few weeks
Big Surprise hey
What starts in California spreads too the rest of the world, See Jed Clampet
Among other reasons why I moved to Solar power. I’d blame,
Mostly SCE and PG&E. These two companies have a poor track record for managing things here in CA.
yeah blame it on the companies lol.. wouldn't want to your lovely left wing scum bags coming after you and deffinitly wouldn't want to consider it was them flooding your state and grid with illegals, gobbling up 20% of your grid. wouldn't want to push back on the woke idiots.
solar is such bs still. you do realize that the them panels you got caused umm i donno...guessing 10 years worth of carbon burn off of fusel fuels..so you might pay that system off in about the same time your carbon foot print ends from the production of them panels, right? ..lol
was bragn rights one of the reasons btw? i already know it was lol.. your leaps and bounds further ahead of us in moral status.
About 20 years ago in August there was an earthquake in the LA area which knock offline some of their generating units. So California was begging for power from other states like Nevada. When this the price of power on the open market can jump from $20 Mwh up to $100 Mwh. Si if you have spare power to sell you can make millions. Well in the Las Vegas area at the same time thunderstorm moved in. This resulted in the demand for power in the Las Vegas service area to drop. Rain and cloud cover with dropping temps mean the power demand drops a lot. This means Nevada power had a lot of excess generating capacity over what their demand was. So Nevada power was able to sell many many Mwh's of excess power to California at top dollar and make millions of dollars. But this was enough for greedy Nevada Power. They called all of the casinos that had emergency gas turbine generators and told them that there was a power emergency and they were short on power. They asked or told the casinos to turn on their those emergency gas turbine generators. In reality Nevada power plenty of excess power to sell at that time. They sold that excess power to California plus the many Mwh's of power that normally would of gone to the casinos. Nevada power make a killing doing this and lied to the casinos. Just to show you that Nevada power will not hesitate to lie to you and cheat you. By the way the top executives at Nevada Power are the sleaziest bunch you have ever seen.
One sleazy CEO at NVP was married to a lawyer. He was a douchbag and his executives hated him. His girlfriend came to visit him at office. His executives called his wife and told her. She went to the Pearson building and walked into his office catching him banging his girlfriend on his desk. She divorced him and took him to the cleaners.
I think hoover dam was mostly paid for by California bond holders
The southwest can talk about power all you want. It doesn't matter because you're all out of water. 40 million people without water! Literally!
they need to charge ev drivers extra to charge
EVs can and do charge off peak. Try running your ac off peak.
🤣 Ya because my electric meter knows I'm charging my car.
@@steven4315 households with an ev uses 40% more than householfds without them. you haven't lowered your "foot print" at all
Hello Liz. I've been a lawyer for 44 years, now retired and living in Henderson. I saw this video and am intrigued. I still have access to all Federal court filings, and suspect the case you're talking about in the video, in terms of seeing court-filed documents. In my experience both publicly owned and privately owned water utilities don't work in the public interest, so why should electrical power providers be any different???? They all have hidden agenda, even the public or user owned ones. I will shoot you an email so you can describe the "tells" on the story/document you found about the "power stealing", and I will see if I can find the case. Then I will send you the key PDFs of the court files, and you can do a second story on the power-grab. If the case hasn't settled or gone to trial, it sure would be fun and interesting for a group of ordinary citizens to formally intervene, so that no shifty settlements could be secretly made by the power players.
Hopefully this can help Liz uncover some hidden stuff with your help Jennifer
Oh California. You should watch a documentary on Enron. It was a Houston Texas based electric company that was responsible for the rolling blackouts in California back in the 90's.
I hardly hear anyone mentioning this. Enron even has a 9/11 connection in the WTC Towers at the time too and how 9/11 conveniently destroyed a huge paper trail stored there. No telling how deep the Enron rabbit hole went. If they were willing to laugh at old people losing their houses (the taped recordings are disgusting) from the fires they were setting from faulty equipment what else were they willing to do?
@@coreym162 it's so hard to distinguish truth from lies any more. I feel like I'm living the "Truman Show" Jim Carey movie.
Doctors only treat people, not cure them.
Banks take your money.
I just wish this was all over.
Enron was well documented as a criminal enterprise at the time.
This whole mindset California has is incredibly dangerous. Just because it works in a California city to occasionally escape doesn't mean it's going to translate well across the country. If anything it's just going to make living in some of the colder areas during the winter almost impossible.
Do people really think Alaskans are just going to go electric?? How are Alaskans supposed to get parts or replacement vehicles?
What about during power outages, storms, wildfires, and other emergencies - how are people supposed to "fill up" a battery quickly? Even a 15 minute charge time at a station is too long during an emergency. How are you supposed to help cars that run out of energy on the side of the road? Can't fill up a gas can at a pump and bring it to them.
There's so many issues with this extreme push away from fossil fuels. California can't even keep up with it's own energy demands as it is but it wants to go even further? Madness. Literal insanity. And their grand solution is to keep fossil fuel plants around just for the times when they have peak energy demand. Meaning they're going to have to have the taxpayers pay to keep these old facilities maintained, even when not in operation during peak hours, because no business is going to see that as profitable.
HEY DUDE WHY DO YOU KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT AND KEEP HOPING FOR A DIFFRENT OUTCOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Small nuclear power plants are going to be the answer for all latitudes 45 and up. At least 4, probably six, will be running in Canada within 10 years and after that they'll be everywhere providing power to smaller towns and cities. They are very similar to reactors running aircraft carriers, subs etc. Factory build, assembly line style, they will be cheap enough.
Are you from Wisconsin?
Great report & keep us posted! At least you can throw up some solar panels & generate all the juice you need in LV as hydro wanes. Just wait until the water wars really heat up. Nevada is 7th in line for a pittance of what remains in the Colorado River. That's where the real focus should be. Keep cool 😎!
Nevada is not going to lose any water. AZ and CA will take the water cuts.
Las Vegas is a model southwestern city when it comes to water use.
Over 80% of the water is used by farms in AZ and CA. They grow thirsty crops like cotton and RICE. That's where the cuts will be.
Nevada's water share is only 4%. No worries here.
Haha - they actually used the word "whammy" in their public announcement??
Wow
Not you Liz I meant these people making these faults accusations against the state of California against someone somewhere it is absolutely criminal
I do not like the idea of Casio being able to override the priority of a state. Something is very wrong here. As far as original agreements with other states I believe that is only honorable the California must live up to these agreements.
Does not MEC have lawyers?
Great job on this report Liz, I had no idea! This is another example of the incompetence in leadership within California. When will their voters wake up and stop voting for reasons of political party loyalty and instead vote for who will do what's best for the state and its taxpayers, regardless of party.
Some believe it's rigged voting. Many Kalifornia residents are waking up.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Our electric and gas rates in Colorado where I live have gone up 34% and 18% year on year, Liz. Stupid governor and progressive legislature have strangled the coal, gas and oil industry with regulations intended to drive them out of business while at the same time they shut down perfectly good energy plants that could deliver power to the user. I hope people think real hard this upcoming election before pulling that D handle because were headed for a dire recession if we continue on this insane new green deal course of economic destruction.
We need to keep exposing these peeps behind the scenes
Basically? FERC OFF! We're going to raise your rates to the ROOF before the power goes off. BTW: My blueberries are loaded this year, and they don't have "Organic" written on them. That's where you paid $12...
I feel sorry for the vast majority of Americans especially those out west having to depend on major power companies because
it just puts more demand on an already taxed out power grid and the more people hook on, the worse it's going to get. With my power company, if a line goes down or a transformer blows or even a natural disaster, the guys in my town get right on it. In fact, I can't remember a time where I was ever without power for a day or more. Half a day maybe but usually never more than that. I consider myself very blessed for living in this part of the country and yes...independent power companies STILL DO EXIST!
An eastern megadrought can affect Niagara Falls Power here in Ontario Canada which powers the entire golden horseshoe. Hopefully, this situation does not happen here.
They can put a strainer in the ocean and try cleaning it out
Criminals always blame their victims.
get out before it's to late its going to get worse i love your glasses
How in the hell can a piece of dirt steal something?
More money more money they're going to take it from the consumer.
Living in British Columbia... and 100% hydropower, it blows my mind that everybody living in a totally sunny environment... like California, doesn't have solar on their roof. Sure it is expensive, but the peace of mind... and a potential gas station on the roof to give the middle finger to those other corporate a-holes... priceless. Ditto the same story for Australia.
You have to have batteries with solar it's not just the panels
Its not only panels that you need but also battery. Also they are not forever,you have to change tham,also battery is omiting electro magnetic polution.
there is a lot of solar in Southern California the only issue is the utility companies buy excess power from homeowners at a reduced rate compared to what they sell it or sell power back for. They are also always trying to get out of paying for the power or adding fees to solar producers. The CPUC oversees the regulation of utility companies but like anything big business has big money to put towards keeping profits high and influencing regulators and politicians.
@@ronald5629 you can presently sell back when you have extra production and buy when you aren't producing but at a higher rate than your credit.
@@croftjeepnxxx not where I live
Men have been fighting for the best land since time began.
So f*** them
That doesn’t surprise me about California doing that. Just sad 😔
Didn't you even watch the video? Confirmation bias much? It statistically doesn't add up and Liz mentioned this in the video
Gavin Newsom can buy us water and power...Thanks Gavin...we all need to fill our swimming pools here in Los Angeles. Gavin has unlimited federal dollars...friend of Joe and Nancy.
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Time to get off the grid and buy your own solar panels and a Sun Gold Power Inverter and a set of 48 volt battery banks that rate 6000 watts and can be combined up the 96,000k watts with added inverters hooked in Parallel.
Solar panels are only 19% effective in the best conditions and drop to 18% after one hour of usage. If it snows, you get less; if they get dirty, you get less. If it get too hot it stops working all together. Rare Earth mineral mining and battery disposal are also a huge problem.
@@michaelparker5030 Solar panels like cold weather like most electronics do, in the winter time solar panel could collect more power if they had the same hours as the summer months do. They don't just stop working in the heat unless you have bought a junk brand name, the newer solar panel have clear Backing glass so the sun light can come from the back side reflecting off the snow in winter and melt off the snow from both sides and produce more power. the newer panels out have a 22% efficiency and it getting better as newer panels come on line. Micro inverters that use one solar panel per micro inverter is the best way to go and can be used Off grid if you know what you are doing with AC coupling.
@@johnward5890 "could" & "if" are key words. Considering they will almost never have the same hours of sun light in winter as in summer, seems like a bad argument. I guess most of European Countries have junk brands because current heatwave is a major concern. 22% efficiency rating (if true, haven't seen that stat) still isn't very good and only in the best of conditions. No reference to rare Earth mineral mining or disposal.
@@michaelparker5030 That why a system is build for the months that you get the least amount of sun light. You never build a system for summer time if that is your only power source, people like me have wood heat backup so i would need as much hydro as others would need. depending on you time zone and the distance for the equator are all calculation factors, winter time angle of the panels also has a contributing factor. Finding what works for you is the way you find the proper setup for your needs. some people have backup generators to recharge the battery banks in a couple hour each week for those days of no sun or intermittent sunny days, some have wind generators that work better at night than they do in the day time. It's not all solar energy to become self contained.
@@johnward5890 a reasonable plan with backups. Not against any currently known forms of energy, but....
Can't be over dependent on any one form of energy.
Hi Liz, you look 🔥
Thank you for the nice compliment Scott Harvey, I was practically melting out there...
@@lakelasvegaslife7903 but you looked wonderful. Very professional and directly to the point. Have you been a reporter before ?
@@lakelasvegaslife7903 look into Adgenda 21, Adgenda 2030. 😉
It sounds like they're just continually trying to generate more cash money.
You say California steals power okay is it PG&e Pacific gas and electric is it Southern California Edison is it Los Angeles power and water there's so many big companies in Southern California who are you to blame I'll tell you something crazy I'm disabled I'm on what they call the care package my power bill runs $30 a month all I have running is an electric fan a refrigerator one light my bathroom and one in my kitchen and an electric fan that's it $30 a month oh and my breathalyzer machine that helps me breathe so what do we do?? It is what it is they're all thieves they're all stealing but what can you do we're just individuals like me and you we have no say so we have nothing if we put our finger in a pile of poop and stir it up all it's going to do is stink they figure that you are trying to make them look bad it's a shut your power off for good be careful what you do and be careful what you say because it's going to affect all of us not just you love your program
Dirt is not able to steal something out of the f****** air.
Why not have your utility company purchase one of those small Chinese 100 Mega Watt Nuclear plants they are selling all over the globe?
Where is the wind power and Solar. Why are they using more power than there state can produce. Why do other states have to provide there power . This all makes no sense
Im gonna Build my self a steam Engine Powered Generator I have 10 acres of Trees and Plenty of Water and a machine shop to build it in. and 50 years experience as a Tool Maker Yes....
Maybe you can get some ecoflow or bluetti portable power stations with available solar panel packs. these can power your fridges and freezers and they have a cooling system 'wave' unit that is efficient for airconditioning.
You would need to read 50 or 60 Ph.D. thesis to get the answers. but the short answer is as, on the news, texas, and California have the generating stations to fill the backlog but let texas citizens die of cold because they didn't agree with some executive order to cut pollution to exact levels. on purpose. so democrats have done it in the past and so will do it in the future.
That is the good news.
Hoover dam, for example, has 17 turbines, 5 of which are actually working only because of upgrades, which are difficult, since the cores weigh 500 tons. The dam fire was one of those 5 so now there are 4. no one is saying that. the deserts are filling with solar panels to provide power without anyone knowing about it.
Hey Liz!
Hi Stan!
Cali gets all the water for farming
HEHE She said "current" problem. Pun intended?
Somebody is draining lake mead they’re doing it on purpose not sure who it is
Liz 👸🌹😉❤️(sure, why not?! 😘) I think CA has "stolen" or siphoned, energy before. Used to live in the Burbank (yes, beautiful downtown Burbank!) Area years ago, & even tho the population was not as high as it is now, there were still days of brown outs. But it seems these were during peak season. Water usage too. With Mead (great video, too 👸) & to some degree (no pun) Lake Powell, slowly drying up - hate to say it - and one day... Not enough water to run the hydro generators. Please stay hydrated, and be safe in this rough heat. Thank you 🌹
Thank you J. Lietka, it's amazing how brutal the heat can be! And these are scary and questionable times, that is for sure!
@@lakelasvegaslife7903 thanks for the reply 🌹 are there any ideas that can alleviate the water crisis? Once Mead goes dry, or too low... That's it. Are you making " get outta here while the gettings good!" Plans? 👸🌹
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
@@spencerwinston4334 maybe California could build desalination plants by the coast - there's lots of miles - to bring water to parts of the state. Sea water would be free!
@@j.lietka9406 Superb idea, why hasn't that ftm, fem lady Gov. N. with female S curve traits pretending to be a man not taken this logical common sense action? As Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, "common sense is just genius dressed up in its working clothes." Either pretty lady Gavin N.does not have common sense or she does not have the literal "stones" to take remedial actions to help the citizens of that once beacon of freedom, but now just an Orwellian open-air prison state. We have proven Gavin is a woman with those beady eyes, female flowing hair, and S curve back, so Aristotlean logic dictates that Gavin N. does not have the "stones" to make an urgent rational common sense action on water and power policy. Regards for the feedback and compelling idea.
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Also, sorry, California does this with the water supply as well. As they financed a third pump at the bottom of Lake Mead, essentially sucking the lake dry to support their economy, they still have trillions of gallons of water reserved in many lakes/reservoirs throughout the state. God Bless.
go buy your tesla car, folks. People asked for this green energy policies, now it's time to pay
Are the United States of America actually united?
They take water and electricity
Putin Putin Putin, Trump Trump Trump.
It shows how dangerously they're hanging on the edge.
no they aren't youre just another conspiracy theorist
Thank you Liz , I had no Idea . It was 89 F here today .
I like 89 degrees!
Someone needs to stop their looting.
This shouldn't be a surprise. They've been doing it with water since the 1900s and "unintentionally" created the largest man made lake (Salton Sea). It's just called "priority" (not stealing). The more people, the more power they have (pun intended). 😐
California, the official label as "state" is just a fig leaf to hide their true identity, a "street gang of criminals" straight out of Compton. Nevada and Arizona are the patsys and the marks in this gang war California "power play." The other Western states have fallen to this bicycle gang of California marauders and pirates. The masks have come off, and Nevada and Arizona sadly have no options as the East coast bicycle gang lead by Brandon on a bicycle is in on the piracy aiding the West Coast gang from Compton and Sacremento. The water sounds tragically coming out of Lake Meade now could be the sounds of water circling the drain as California street gangs are of course "pirating" your water and energy. Compelling video. New subscriber.
Ferc in rip off 😆
Go electric and we can't produce enough electricity ???????????????????
How many are greedily mining crypto currencies to fatten their digital wallets while people are going hours without power because of grid issues? I wonder how many of those crypto currency people are the same ones talking about going green and buying electric cars.
Fuel Natural Gas Nuclear its all Basically Steam Powered
time to move ?