According to SCE, the fixed rate will cover “the costs of safely building, maintaining and operating the electric grid, of providing customer support, and the cost of state initiatives to help income-qualified customers and energy-efficiency programs.”
That's great news for a place with the grid so fragile and dangerous they turn off the power when it gets windy.
Yep, buy electric cars. You can must have them, but good luck using them.
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Apr 8, 2023 - 4:47pm
Steely_D wrote:
The sort of person you don't mind helping out, because they're trying. That's the difference, IMHO. You can be wild, different - as long as you're trying to pull some weight, somehow.
Hear! Hear!
I don't care what color your skin is.
I can't stand laziness.
Just get out of my way!
Yep. Not even safe for the rich and well off. Horrible to see what my hometown of Bezerkely has turned into, shown in the video. Not in my wildest dreams could I have seen it go this far down the tubes. I have already scratched one last visit off of my bucket list. No way that I could begin to feel safe there.
Tolerance has its limits, and there's gonna be some pushback, no matter what the bleeding hearts and hand wringers want.
Already, we see big financial costs to having no rules (e.g., big income-generating conferences pulling out of SF).
Broadly, clumsily, the problem is in three big buckets: mental illness (thanks, Reagan), drug use (gracias, Mexico), and "freedom" (take a bath, hippies).
There was a good, interesting interview with the mayor of Oakland, London Breed, where she talks a bit about how complex and slow-to-move and positive change will be.
My rough guess: there are plenty of cheap, pretty places that the money will move and leave the metropolis in a deadly, sad shambles until it gets gentrified again. London Breed interview.
Slab City - an interesting consequence of living "off the grid." What Berkeley hoped to be, but lost its footing.
We drove through there recently and visited some of the art installations and had a nice chat with a clear-headed young girl who was happy to be living there. The sort of person you don't mind helping out, because they're trying. That's the difference, IMHO. You can be wild, different - as long as you're trying to pull some weight, somehow.
Yep. Not even safe for the rich and well off. Horrible to see what my hometown of Bezerkely has turned into, shown in the video. Not in my wildest dreams could I have seen it go this far down the tubes. I have already scratched one last visit off of my bucket list. No way that I could begin to feel safe there.
Yep, reparations would be ludicrous. Paid by a state that didnât have slavery, by people who never had slaves, to people who were never enslaved.
Itâll ever really see the light of day, of course. But it makes some people giddy.
Yep, reparations would be ludicrous. Paid by a state that didnât have slavery, by people who never had slaves, to people who were never enslaved.
Itâll ever really see the light of day, of course. But it makes some people giddy.
These assholes donât realize that, for the want of a schmancy purse, there are a lot of angry crazy vengeful white men just itching to use their weapons on someone.
It'd be nice to have, but how is the Southwest gonna cope with the growing shortage of ground-water?
By mining it until it's gone.
Actually, decades ago Arizona realised that there was more economic advantage per megalitre of water in cities than in cotton. So they shifted their policy to favour expansion of Phoenix into the monstrosity it now is. Actually, I liked visiting Phoenix but it should be about 1/4 the size.
Dealing with the brine is a huge issue for all desalination units, and it compounds over time. It's fine for tiny applications, but even at household size it's difficult.
there seems to be a grand canyon sized political wound in this country
for california nuclear energy and desalination may be a feasible the residual salt concentrate could be a minor issue tho
Dealing with the brine is a huge issue for all desalination units, and it compounds over time. It's fine for tiny applications, but even at household size it's difficult.
