The state of California is presented with multiple potential green energy derivative sources, balanced with a spiraling demand for energy. Oil and gas offshore drilling is balanced with growing numbers of wind farms and turbine energy sites. Solar power is a dynamic alternate energy source. California industries are known for agricultural, wine growing, entertainment, aerospace, the port of Long Beach/Los Angeles and industrial commerce business centers.
California’s infrastructure includes an ambitious Governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and two powerful Senators for environmental change, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. The historic Gold Rush of yesteryear has been replaced by a current boomtown in tourism. Deserts and the fabled California coastline, rivers and valleys, and Sierras are the topography of the state.
California is in the midst of a green revolution in solar panel installations, geothermal development, and new energy resource potential. If California were a country, from a population standpoint it would be 35th in the world economically and 59th largest. Yet some of the worst polluted cities in the United States are in California. These are Los Angeles, Visalia, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Hanford. Hence the need for multiple alternate energy sources.
Hydrodynamics are a possibility, as is natural gas. California is in a position to invest in waste water management and other green friendly power management initiatives. Business uses, water quality, energy management and marine based energy solutions would afford California some independence from the high cost of energy required to maintain such a populous state.
The summer months of California intensify residential energy usage with triple digits temperatures and earthquake threats always looming. These summer months alone require increasing amounts of polished water, purchased energy, municipal and statewide fire fighting resources, as well as agricultural support and emissions relief. California has its environmental problems cut out for itself.
California has Sacramento as its Capitol, yet the state has a diversity of agricultural and metropolitan density that presents bilateral energy support. The Southern California basin is known for its tourist delights and cultural diversity, yet suburban populations of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and other inland counties have a broadly defined roadmap of urban energy demand taxing statewide resources seasonally.
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