Green Energy…California Power Grid May Fail in Heat Wave

Green Energy from Solar and Wind cannot supply even the green energy needed to power your fancy new Electric Vehicles when conditions are extreme. The State officials warned that Californians would have to cut back on usage, and even avoid charging their electric vehicles due to a major heatwave targeting the state this week. It might cause blackouts on the California power grid. So much for the reliability of green energy.

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@MarmeeMarch says

Renewable is nice but just as poisonous to the environment as coal or nuc. If not more... Batteries don't grow on trees... Or disappear when they are all used up.

DEAD WRONG!!!

Lithium batteries are great in part because they recycle so well.

Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined > Cathodes made with novel direct-recycling beat commercial materials
15 Oct 2021

https://spectrum.ieee.org/recycled-batteries-good-as-newly-mined

And, lithium salts dissolved in hot geothermal wells has minimal environmental impact.

The new 'gold rush' for green lithium
Geothermal brine could become a promising and sustainable source of an essential element for the renewable energy transition
24th November 2020

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201124-how-geothermal-lithium-could-revolutionise-green-energy

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