It’s how it’s currently being done. Like sure they could use solar, but they’re not going to, because it’s faster and cheaper up front to power them with methane.
Like solar would be cheaper in the long run, but since when have these companies ever thought about the long term consequences of their actions.
They’ve made a lot of hay about starting up old nuclear plants or the like, but, in terms of numbers, it’s nearly all powered by methane turbines.
Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.
Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.
I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.
Yah, installing a fixed on-sight back up should be permitted and regulated. And I think they are in the jurisdiction of the facility, hence why they’re using mobile generators, the kinds of things normally used on construction sights.
I was referring more to like emission regulations on them. Dumping a bunch of particulates and exhaust products in to a local population’s air is really bad, but it’s not a huge issue if it’s temporary, like say on a construction sight or to deal with an occasional power outage. It’s another thing entirely when it’s the primary power source, or the power grid is failing so frequently that they’re being run all the time.
That situation in Texas sounds very much like them trying to do something to address public concerns about the grid failing by making it easier for people to “take personal responsibility” by installing backup generators. Clearly they do not want to annoy the private companies running the grid by forcing them to spend money on repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Like, they’re unwilling to address the core issue, but public outcry means they have to do something, so instead they create a new safety issue that they can deny responsibility for.
From what I’ve heard about the power situation, they’ve been using mobile generators that they occasionally move around, since those are not regulated. It makes sense to not regulate emergency back up generators since the point of them is that they’re supposed to be temporary and not run for very long, but these aren’t emergency backups, these are the main power source.
Now they’re pushing for permits for permanent generators, probably because the mobile generators are inefficient and expensive.
Honestly the whole situation stinks of incompetence, like they built the facility in a rush without checking if they could get the power they would need, and then tried to build their own power, but saw how hard permitting would be, so they went with the loophole mobile generators because it was expedient, now they want to build proper generators because the mobile generators are too expensive, but are running in to having to face public scrutiny now.
I think there is a general loneliness epidemic, but it’s particularly acute with men who were never pressured or given the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to build and maintain a community around them.
Like the systems and environments that used to facilitate this no longer exist, and it is left to individuals to do it them selves, something impossible without those skills. Those institutions and systems that used to facilitate community building have been pivoted to profit or dismantled if they couldn’t generate profit or if they were actively undermining the profitability of something else.
I think it’s more a correlation than a causation. It is not that LGBTQ are better at running companies, but that a company that never promotes or advances them is almost certainly not promoting based on capability and appropriateness for a position.
More likely it’s promoting based on personal relationships and connections, an old boys network. Which leads to people who are less qualified, but better connected, ending up up running things.
Counter to what the anti-DEI people will claim, diversity in a company is the result of hiring the best qualified people, a company that lacks diversity is a sign of poor hiring practices.
The thing is that cars are deeply intertwined with other sources of emissions that are much bigger than them, and realistically those other sources can’t be practically dealt with while cars are so prevalent, or at least, dealing with them are much easier in a less car dependent society.
Consider something like oil fractions, when oil is refined you get gasoline, but also fuel oil, diesel, kerosene, bitumen, and others. The production of any one of those is buoyed by the production of the rest, and you can’t do much to control the ratios you’re getting. As long as gas demand is high, all the others will be produced as well, and if they are produced, people will find a use to burn them. Airlines become more fuel efficient or decrease traffic; Previously cost prohibitive uses for kerosene become viable as the price drops due to a consistent supply and a reduced demand from high value airline consumers.
For a serious reduction in oil use, every element of it needs to be reduced in tandem so that the value of no one fraction can keep production high.
I doubt Canada would ever stop taking American asylum seekers due to Canadian public resentment of the American government.
Like, even if you want to assume purely cynical motivations, taking in those who are the targets of regime in opposition to you is grade a propaganda fodder.
And from a more honest perspective, the average Canadian is probably very understanding that anyone running from the regime is probably not someone who put it in power, and is thus very much on their side in the whole situation.
Canada is, in general, extremely welcoming of immigrants, even those from extremely disparate cultures. A huge influx of people of a very similar culture is not going to generate any sort of major backlash from even conservative elements.
The only really pressure point is probably going to be housing supply, but that’s an issue to be dealt with, not a reason to deny refugees entry, if it was, they wouldn’t be welcoming immigrants at one of the highest rates in the world.
It’s one of those things where republicans run attack ads and viciously criticize him, but, for none of the reasons he’s not a great governor.
Much like Gavin Newsome or Kathy Hochul.