Rosenlund said the other day. The heat's on City Hall, all right. The rolling blackouts were still several weeks away, but City Hall knew even then that San Jose and Silicon Valley were drinking more juice than the state's power grid could supply. I'm no fan of power plants within eyeshot of any neighborhood. They're ugly and bad for property values.
Power plants make state prisons look like better neighbors, even after the inmates escape.
But the fact is, folks, we're running out of time and energy. Nobody's come up with a blueprint or even a political process for clean, safe and inexpensive power plants where nobody can see them. The hard truth today is we need at least some of these devils in our back yards. It would sit on the other side of a large hill from the nearest neighborhood. The site already has high-voltage lines and a natural gas pipeline.