They won't maintain your grid, either. The State shouldn't pay more than 4%, with a percentage guaranteed grid maintenance.Stick windmills and solar panels on the roofs and cut the wire. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I think people forget you can charge them at home. It's not like you have to go to a station to refuel, just plug it in when you get home and you have a full charge in the morning. I think it will be harder in urban area because more people live in apartments that would have to rely on management to install and maintain the places to plug in at night. Especially apartments with on street parking. The only times anyone would need a service station to charge is on road trips and that infrastructure is growing. There are already road trips through middle America that are possible right now.
Totally true. Been trying to convince a friend who's thinking of moving east, but too far southeast, that the northern winters are a lot easier to get through than the southern summers.
Despite the official hostility toward renewables, Texas is actually the second biggest producer of wind power in the US. The climate and terrain of the state are well-suited for both wind and solar power. No matter how many politicians the fossil fuel sector buy, the market forces are already inevitably moving us toward more growth of renewables.
In a way, the fossil fuel industry are a lot like the conservatives freaking out as America becomes less white and less Christian. There isn’t anything they can do to stop it. It’s like trying to stop the tides with a broom.
But the more desperate they become, the more they’ll lash out and the more damage they’ll try to inflict on the rest of us.
You know what else creates tons of toxic waste that will last forever? Solar panels. Thwy have short service lives, and require rare earth metals from either war-torn African countries or China.
Thorium reactors are more efficient and create less waste
The Eastern States of Oz are freaking out right now, because soaring natural gas prices + unexpected shutdowns in coal fired plants + privatised energy producers being greedy dicks = rocketing power prices and potential shortages.
While Western Australia is looking on and trying not to feel smug. Because in negotiations over natural gas royalties, a Labor (left-wing) Premier insisted a sizeable proportion of the gas be set aside for local use, at a cheap price. He was lambasted by the energy companies and every Liberal (right wing) government in the country, and told them all; no deal for us, no gas for you. So WA has all the gas it needs for power generation, at low and stable prices. One point to us.
The last Liberal Premiere planned to privatise the state's electricity grid and we threw him out very comprehensively. The grid and power plants remain directly owned by the government. So, when it became apparent the grid needed to be upgraded to account for the massive public uptake of rooftop solar systems, the government just...started doing it. Without needing to hassle with for-profit private owners, because there aren't any. Two points to us.
Lastly, the Energy minister has just announced a concrete date for the decommissioning of the state's two largest coal-fired power plants. There closure will devastate employment prospects in those areas, as well as the state's coal mining industry. But this announcement is 5 years into a 10-year plan to help those workers transition. The government's spent over a billion dollars to retrain workers and build up alternative industries in affected areas. There's a lot more to come. The closures will reduce the state's emissions by (Iirc) almost 80%. Three points to us.
This is the kind of thing that can happen when you resist right wing bullshit, fight to maintain public ownership of utilities, and demand your government actually look after its citizens.
The grid is too fragile to be practical. But the oil kings fatten on it.
Uneasy lies the head.....
She heard things he'll deny saying.
Put on enough to stay warm and you are immobilized.
They won't maintain your grid, either. The State shouldn't pay more than 4%, with a percentage guaranteed grid maintenance.Stick windmills and solar panels on the roofs and cut the wire. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I think people forget you can charge them at home. It's not like you have to go to a station to refuel, just plug it in when you get home and you have a full charge in the morning. I think it will be harder in urban area because more people live in apartments that would have to rely on management to install and maintain the places to plug in at night. Especially apartments with on street parking. The only times anyone would need a service station to charge is on road trips and that infrastructure is growing. There are already road trips through middle America that are possible right now.
Here in Latin America, the worst offenders are the Canadians (cutouts for the British and the USAnians)
How many people have died of wind cancer in Texas?
I'd recommend they avoid Colorado, though.
Totally true. Been trying to convince a friend who's thinking of moving east, but too far southeast, that the northern winters are a lot easier to get through than the southern summers.
They could peg a crypto currency's value to Fox's derp production.
Maybe they’ll take a page from Monty Burns and build giant sun blockers over our cities.
Despite the official hostility toward renewables, Texas is actually the second biggest producer of wind power in the US. The climate and terrain of the state are well-suited for both wind and solar power. No matter how many politicians the fossil fuel sector buy, the market forces are already inevitably moving us toward more growth of renewables.
In a way, the fossil fuel industry are a lot like the conservatives freaking out as America becomes less white and less Christian. There isn’t anything they can do to stop it. It’s like trying to stop the tides with a broom.
But the more desperate they become, the more they’ll lash out and the more damage they’ll try to inflict on the rest of us.
I'm almost surprised that TX just doesn't get all its energy from their wingnut windbags. There are so many of them!
You know what else creates tons of toxic waste that will last forever? Solar panels. Thwy have short service lives, and require rare earth metals from either war-torn African countries or China.
Thorium reactors are more efficient and create less waste
Meanwhile in Australia...
The Eastern States of Oz are freaking out right now, because soaring natural gas prices + unexpected shutdowns in coal fired plants + privatised energy producers being greedy dicks = rocketing power prices and potential shortages.
While Western Australia is looking on and trying not to feel smug. Because in negotiations over natural gas royalties, a Labor (left-wing) Premier insisted a sizeable proportion of the gas be set aside for local use, at a cheap price. He was lambasted by the energy companies and every Liberal (right wing) government in the country, and told them all; no deal for us, no gas for you. So WA has all the gas it needs for power generation, at low and stable prices. One point to us.
The last Liberal Premiere planned to privatise the state's electricity grid and we threw him out very comprehensively. The grid and power plants remain directly owned by the government. So, when it became apparent the grid needed to be upgraded to account for the massive public uptake of rooftop solar systems, the government just...started doing it. Without needing to hassle with for-profit private owners, because there aren't any. Two points to us.
Lastly, the Energy minister has just announced a concrete date for the decommissioning of the state's two largest coal-fired power plants. There closure will devastate employment prospects in those areas, as well as the state's coal mining industry. But this announcement is 5 years into a 10-year plan to help those workers transition. The government's spent over a billion dollars to retrain workers and build up alternative industries in affected areas. There's a lot more to come. The closures will reduce the state's emissions by (Iirc) almost 80%. Three points to us.
This is the kind of thing that can happen when you resist right wing bullshit, fight to maintain public ownership of utilities, and demand your government actually look after its citizens.