California to Eliminate Coal Energy : Green Energy Is Enough

It seems that the people in California have developed a gene that makes them insane - that is, as they age they become less and less able to differentiate between reality and fantasy.

Truly, California is not part of the real world but lives in some special magical place where all that's needed to make things happen is to declare them a reality.

Remember the train that they are building that will cost billions and billions that they don't have? And now these brilliant minds have dedicated themselves to green energy that doesn't have a prayer of meeting current needs of electrical power much less the needs of an expanded industrial base.

Oh wait, back up a little here, California won't need much electrical power for industry as all that will left in the state will be migrant workers and fat political. Everyone else will have found greener pasture out side of the state.

Los Angeles Moves to Eliminate Reliance on Coal-Powered Energy
March 21, 2013
Source: Kate Linthicum, "L.A. Moves to Eliminate Reliance on Coal-Powered Energy," Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2013.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) is moving forward with a plan to end the city's reliance on coal-powered energy.  Coal is close to 40 percent of all of the sources of energy for the city.  The two plants that provide the coal to the city include the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona and the Intermountain Power Project in Utah, says the Los Angeles Times.
The coal-free Los Angeles timeline:

• 2015: potential end to energy delivery from the Arizona plant if the DWP negotiations to sell its share of the Navajo Generating Station are successful.
• 2020: original date of achieving a coal-free city, a promise made by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
• 2025: updated date of achieving a coal-free city, a promise made by Mayor Villaraigosa and the DWP.
• 2027: state-imposed deadline that requires the Utah power plant to become coal-free when the contract with Utah's Intermountain Power Project is up.

The promise to have the city of Los Angeles coal-free by 2025 was declared a great of a victory for Mayor Villaraigosa, even though it does not meet his original promise to have the city coal-free by 2020.

Despite claiming that the plan would have an effect the equivalent of taking 2 million cars off the roads, the DWP has not released any information about the costs or specifics of the plan. The DWP estimated the cost of ending the contract with the power plant in Utah four years early or converting it to gas would cost $1 billion. A new power plant that would have the same capabilities would cost more than $11 billion.