Tiny earthquakes might hold the key to predicting massive ones—by disrupting deep, silent tremors under major fault lines. #Earthquakes #Geoscience #SeismicRisk
https://geekoo.news/tiny-quakes-big-clues-how-small-earthquakes-disrupt-mega-faults/
Critics say #DiabloCanyon #NuclearPlant produces too much power at too high a price
By Thomas Fudge, December 11, 2024
"#SolarPower has become a plentiful #CleanEnergy source that the state [of #California] may have underestimated when it chose to extend Diablo Canyon.
"Some people who run California’s statewide power grid say nuclear is clean power. It generates no greenhouse emissions. But it does create #NuclearWaste and it has to run 24-7, making it very inflexible.
"'With the lack of flexibility, and the growth of flexible resources that we have coming on to our system, I just don’t know if there’s going to be value in retaining those resources,' said Brian Murray, director of real time operation with the California Independent System Operator (ISO).
"McCann said nuclear power from Diablo Canyon is also getting expensive. PG&E is applying to raise its rates in order to keep the plant open.
"That cost will affect San Diego customers of SDG&E also, and it’s something lawmakers didn’t anticipate when they voted to extend the life of the nuclear plant."
#NoNukes #DiabloCanyonNuclearPlant #SeismicRisk #CascadianSubduction #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree