Let's cut from peak power to
energy, since it seems impossible for JPak to master this point.
80 Mega"watts" at 20% capacity utilization is 0.0055 exajoules. Note that 20% capacity utilization is
optimistic.
California's electrical energy demand as of 2005 was 287,977 gigawatt-
hours - a unit of
energy. This corresponds to 1.04 exajoules:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_generation.htmlWhat is really fun about this link is that it gives pretty up to date information on what
portion of that electricity comes from various magical "renewable" sources.
Um...let's see...hydroelectric...geothermal...wind...um...oh here it is! Solar!
What?!?
The production of solar energy production is
falling in California!?! Who would have guessed it, what with the brazillion solar roofs bill and all!!!!!!
In the year 2000 magical solar industry produced 860 gigawatt-
hours out of 287,977 gigawatt-
hours or put another way 0.3% of California's electricity in that year.
In the year 2005, just 5 years later, much of it spent under the rule of the ever popular "environmentalist" Governor Hydrogen Hummer, California solar production had
fallen to 660 gigawatt-
hours, or 0.22% of California's electricity.
It seems that California isn't conserving either. Electricity demand
rose 7,481 gigawatt-
hours since the solar industry began to
decline in California, meaning that the demand
increased by a factor of more than 11 times the
total output of the solar industry.
Of course, nobody
wants the solar industry to continue to fail to address climate change. Everybody is
cheering loudly for it, just as they do decade after decade after decade.
But solar energy is
trivial and the appeal to it is nothing more than pure magical thinking. It is a completely insufficient tool to address global climate change. Appeal to it is nothing more than
denial, and nothing more.