Peter Lang, you are obviously not understanding what it was I asked Mr. Planning Engineer to do.
The premise of my request to Mr. Planning Engineer was clearly enunciated to him, and he clearly understood what it was I was asking for, and why. Mr. Planning Engineer’s response then went right to heart of the matter in addressing the topics that I wanted addressed.
The premise I laid out for Mr. Planning Engineer is that we use the entire state of California in a grand experiment in technology application theory and practice to see if a green agenda which strongly pushes the renewables can be successfully implemented from a purely technical perspective. Achieving 50% renewables in the state of California by 2030 is the experiment’s objective.
The premise states that Californians pay for the cost of this grand experiment in a way which spreads the burden as fairly as possible.
The Great California 50% Experiment deliberately excludes the use of nuclear power. The majority of Californians don’t like nuclear power, and by not including nuclear, the rest of us non-Californians gain a wealth of useful information concerning how a renewable energy future can be technically implemented in the absence of nuclear.
Mr. Planning Engineer says that he can get the job done under the constraints and the stipulations that I’ve laid out, with the caveat that if Californians realize what is happening to their costs for energy, and they come to realize how much they will have to pay for this grand experiment, they might well choose to constrain funding for the experiment and he would then be left with the task of holding the whole mess together with shoestrings and duct tape.
If the experiment commenced in 2016, but the Californians got cold feet after a few years, I have to say that it would surely be most ungenerous of them to end the experiment prematurely, thus robbing the rest of us of an excellent opportunity to see just what does, or does not, work well technically in pursuing a very aggressive program for adopting renewable energy.