The evidence you provide to support your theories are actually DISproving your theories.
For example, you present the theory: "
The floating wind farms and all the ridiculous engineering projects required to integrate them into the existing gas powered grid will only increase the price of electricity and do nothing, absolutely nothing, to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans eventually dump into the atmosphere"
And then you present evidence provided by
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO which shows that the amount of CO2 emissions stays consistent with energy consumed from natural gas sources, and additional energy consumption from solar sources adds minimal CO2 emissions.
The result being increased energy consumption with minimal increased CO2 emissions.
You also present the theory: "In the past thirty days forty percent of our electricity here in California comes from gas. The most profitable operation of a pumped storage project like this won't be achieved by limiting it's recharge to wind or solar power, instead it will be recharged whenever the demand and price of electricity is low, which frequently occurs when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. "
Obviously, the only purpose of storing electricity is to have it available for use when electric
generation is not available, OR for leveling out supply and demand during 'peak' demand periods (as the information you provided on the Castiac Power Plant clearly states).
(I hope it is agreed that) reducing CO2 emissions while providing needed electricity is our goal. To eliminate consistent electric generation from CO2 emitting gas and replace it with inconsistent electric generation from non-CO2 solar, storage will be necessary.
Using a small amount of stored gas sourced energy to allow us to use a larger amount of solar sourced energy is a net gain in non-CO2 sourced energy.
And finally, you write: "California already has a very large capacity to both source and sink electricity for grid stabilization utilizing the fresh water in its extensive water projects, for example the Castaic Power Plant."
Yes, the concept has been proven to work, thank you for pointing that out.
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