Marin Energy Authority considers working with San Francisco cou...

Officials with the Marin Energy Authority have begun exploratory talks with their counterparts in San Francisco about possible collaboration.
Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan said he called San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi last week.( Hey IJ, Charley McGlashen in not a plural "officials". He IS a power mad megalomaniac who, according to a previous IJ story, has already pledged $60 million of Marin taxpayer money on his insane project with an "end game" far beyond its original intention!
Mirkarimi said, "... We've been very impressed with the direction that Marin has been going." (If San Francisco's politobureau - aka the board of Stupidvisors loves the Marin Energy Authority - that pretty much tells you all that you need to know!)
Mirkarimi said, "Strictly brainstorming." (I think he means brainWASHING).
But Mirkarimi added, "I'm sure we'll stay in close contact because our programs are being similarly birthed..." (Think Rosemary's baby!- or does he just mean through political backroom dealing by unelected appointees?)
McGlashan said, "We'll probably try to get the experts together at some point in the next couple months." (Sorry, Charlie - the only "experts" on this Boondoggle are expert Con-men!) Another day - another story - and another reason to Stop this Boondoggle Now!

Mirkarimi said, "Strictly brainstorming.".

With two radical lefties like Mirkarimi and McGlashan "brainstorming" on how to spend the public's money, I'm afrid to think what will happen next.

If you think the Marin BOS is not competant to get involved in delivering energy just wait until the SFBOS gets involved
We will have another group of activist bueracrats on the taxpayers payroll
Politically correctness run amok decisions being made by the likes on Daly, Campos, Avalos et al. or their political supporters now at the public trough
Free energy (food) stamps for the poor at the publics expense?
Perfectly rational for a group that gives sanctuary to felons
The SFBOS is toxic!

If one reads between the lines, its easy to begin to draw the conclusion that the young Mr McGlashan has begun to realize he lacks critical mass to keep rates in a reasonable range for Marin users of MCE. WARNING Marin residents... this is only the beginning of potential surprises. MCE has used very faulty economic assumptions and logic and it will disappoint big time. McGalashan is in way over his head !!!

Did taxpayers also pay for their lunch? I bet so!

Cool now the folks in San Francisco can bend over as well. Sorry no kisses first.

Oh, boy! I can't wait until the SF BOS meets with Marin. The SF BOS will show Marin how wasting money is really done

Marin Conservative wrote:

Mirkarimi said, "Strictly brainstorming.".
With two radical lefties like Mirkarimi and McGlashan "brainstorming" on how to spend the public's money, I'm afrid to think what will happen next.

Brainstorming - A bigger danger to us than Katrina

Juliette Anthony's editorial "Marin Voice: Is Marin Clean Energy a wise investment?" does a good job explaining some of the problems with Marin Clean Energy's "Green Wash" for its filthy energy project under the auspices of it's so-called Marin Energy Authority (MEA).
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_13752888...
I too once thought, Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), so-called “public power” was the solution to stopping PG&E’s monopoly for energy ratepayers. That’s before I learned that it was just a scheme put forward by Enron in the late 1990s to swindle the ratepayers of billions. Enron’s plan was to use renewable energy to green wash its plan to build more gas fired power plants throughout California. Rob Bradley who was a known whistleblower Enron worked there for sixteen years, almost as long as Ken Lay himself; from September 1985 to the mass layoff of December 3, 2001. His expose is at http://www.politicalcapitalism.org/enron/
Enron knew what most politicians and bureaucrats are unable to understand that most forms of renewable energy (except for hydro power) are intermittent and unreliable during periods of peak demand. Even hydro is unreliable during a draught. Solar has the highest capacity factor during peak demand when people are operating air conditioners, while wind power has the lowest capacity factor during peak demand because its highest production occurs in the early morning, late evening, and the middle of the night. This means increased emissions will be incurred by new wind projects in the form of more reliable gas turbine power during periods of peak demand; and therein lays the premise behind Enron’s swindle. Industrial wind technology is a meretricious commodity, attractive in a superficial way but without real value—seemingly plausible, even significant but actually false and nugatory.
Those who would profit from it either economically or ideologically are engaged in wholesale deception. For in contrast to their alluring but empty promises of closed coal plants and reduced carbon emissions are this reality: Wind energy is impotent while its environmental footprint is massive and malignant.
A wind project with a rated capacity of 100 MW, for example, with 40 skyscraper-sized turbines, would likely produce an annual average of only 27 MW, an imperceptible fraction of energy for most grid systems. More than 60% of the time, it would produce less than 27 MW, and at peak demand times, often produce nothing. It would rarely achieve its rated capacity, producing most at times of least demand. Whatever it generated would be continuously skittering, intensifying, magnifying the destabilizing effects of demand fluctuations, for wind volatility is virtually indistinguishable from the phenomenon of people whimsically turning their appliances off and on.
Moreover, the project could never produce capacity value—specified amounts of energy on demand, something that should be anathema to regulatory agencies, with their task of ensuring reliable, secure, affordable electricity. The ability of machines to perform as expected on demand is the basis of modernity, underlying contemporary systems of economic growth, wealth creation and well-being.
Readers need look no farther than to former Enron swindler Tom Delaney of Marin Clean Energy (http://marincleanenergy.info/newMCE/updates.c... ) to and these two links see the truth:
http://www.ppcpdx.org/Archives%20CarTalk/RTOC...
http://www.ppcpdx.org/Archives%20CarTalk/RTOC...
Marin Clean Energy is a front for Enron’s master plan for California.

Michael Boyd, President CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc.(CARE)