for now. in 20 years? not likely.

Storage is growing at significant rates. With enough storage and solar/wind can more than cover the entire globes energy usage in gross volume. Edge case solutions will be needed in a few places.

Batteries made out of iron or salt.
Heat batteries that store energy for literally *months* that are made of garbage quality sand.
Flow batteries in the GW scale.

Oh and those EV batteries themselves will dwarf the batteries needed for the grid.

Existing nuclear is definitely needed right now for CO2 reasons. The over/under is whether there's enough already installed to get to the renewable coverage capability.

Yeah, the private company angle is the issue. What we need is for 'possession' of citizen data to be prohibited and expressly stipulated the exemptions when it may be possessed. Any prohibition on surveillance is useless when they can simply buy the data and or compel it's production.

Separately, regs on private companies activities are needed as well, but harder. Drawing a line between, it's legal to take your picture in public and taking a picture of you in public every 30 seconds thus providing a full surveillance scope, needs to be figured out.

the issue is the tendrils in the battery. they form and you can't stop them, if they short circuit, you get a bonfire.

Whether just sitting parked or driving.

Full gas tanks generally don't generally combust without external inputs.

Fortunately newer battery compositions don't have the problem.

1/2 of teslas already use a different form of battery, Lithium Iron Phosphate that doesn't have the spontaneous combustion problem.

Battery composition is changing rapidly.

given humanities track record, it's a valid concern. But it exists now and not dealing with it is creating 2 cans, one of which is kicked down the road.

Unless you're suggesting culling a few billion people...we have this problem now and need to solve it.

As with every industrial process, the waste is considered useless and or unimportant until it isn't.

But industry isn't likely to do anything that costs them extra so we need regulation to force such changes far ahead of their short term bottom line.

The point is that the methane does 2 things. It is 100x worse for 2 decades....and then it becomes CO2 and exists for centuries.

So burning it now *is* the better choice of 2 terrible choices. But *only* reclaimed methane, not nat gas from the ground ;-)

I think his confusion is your combination of the two things in this statement "capture the methane and run the exhaust through a scrubber (even a pool of water that is later evaporated)"

Capturing methane and running it through water isn't a solution. I think you meant "burn the trash or capture the methane (and burn that)...."

You need to learn basic economics and logic. If you own the infrastructure, it's *expensive* to lay an entire duplicate network. That's a barrier to entry that you wield against competitors. The existing network was built based on full constituent/monopoly access, the franchise agreement. A competitor doesn't have that and have to build a equivalent network on the hope of some percentage of the market? You've gone bankrupt I'm guessing

Lol, what incentives does a company with a captive market have to enable competitors?

The issue is a captive audience isn't a free market and there's a very high barrier to entry further making it not viable as a free market.

Infrastructure can't be free market because it's not realistic to run 15 copies of that physical infrastructure. One set of water pipes, one set of electric, gas etc.

The issue here is cable and internet haven't, until recently, been considered 'infrastructure'. Cities and towns contracted with a single provider to 'build' the network out with the promise of regulated monopoly to recoup costs. Not a bad concept but they didn't put an end date on it.

We need locally owned municipal systems, like the water, gas, electric for internet/tv etc. But it's tough to get there with, now megasize Verizon and Comcast, buying off state legislatures. (Ask people who their state level reps are and most don't know....entire portion of gov run by themeselves with little oversight)

In VA they literally made it illegal for municipal systems to offer service at a cost *below* any existing provider. And, require that municipal system to show financial plans showing profitability in year ONE.

This is why corporations need to go back to having a *purpose* beyond 'making money'. The Hoover Dam was built by a purpose direct corporation call "The Six Companies".

When corp's only purpose is to make themselves money...and are basically immune to penalties like this, it's time to change how they are operated.

and while correlation isn't causation....anything provided by a US provider is *HIGHLY CORRELATED* with being far more expensive for far less service, peak or avg

Yes, but progress is littered with crazy people who go bankrupt. But along the way they build things that get reused and improved for future endeavors.

Assuming they are actually private and want to build something so wildly unlikely to be profitable...we'll use their designs and concepts later when it might be profitable, have at.

Now the safety of having them launch rockets is perhaps a valid concern, but space resource exploitation won't happen from gov't funding for a long long long time. This moves it up even if it doesn't succeed.

Over $10K in campaign donations in 2022? Entirely to Dems.

There are only 3 choices. A party committed to flawed but still democratic system, a party openly calling for autocracy and neither. The third choice is apparently yours. Neither.

Which is one less vote the GOP and Trump need to get to win.

So there only 2 choices. And you seem to be supporting a choice that favors the autocracy under the guise it already exists.