They are free to say whatever they want.
But, applying for tax exempt status gets you scrutinized. When all your free speech is about the evils of taxation, and you want the government to waive your obligation to pay taxes, you're blissfully naive if you think they won't take a long, hard look at your dealings.
Peak daytime costs are much higher than the evening in most of the sunny parts of the USA.
The IRS scandal is pretty much all hogwash. But it was handled badly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
As for the CIA, they're not directly under the President's thumb - the director is a Presidential nominee but must be confirmed by the Senate.
What's Obama's involvement in this? Is he putting pressure on the CIA to squash news stories?
See pg 18 on the PDF below for a list of "Megadeals" in the US up to the end of 2012.
Boeing got $3 billion in breaks from Washington state back in 2003. And then there's the almost $9 Billion over 20+ yrs that they were just awarded for production of the 777x.
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/s...
Nevada's governor thinks the return on the Tesla deal will be 80-to-1 which seems VERY optimistic given that Tesla will need a decade to reach the 1/2 milllion cars per year threshold for which they're building the Gigafactory.
Have a look at the history of when American coal plants started installing scrubbers and figure out when they reached 10%, 20%, 30% of plants etc, old & new, that were properly outfitted.
You'll find there's more than enough blame to go around.
"almost as much as a Saudi prince does in their own country" - NOT
Boeing took Washington State for all they were worth and were the beneficiaries of the 1st & 3rd largest incentives in US history.
*slow clap*
Extent coverage has a %age range which used to be as low as 15% (I vaguely recall) but is now typically a minimum of 30%.
So the actual volume can vary considerably when you have a region of millions of sq km which is an average of 40% covered vs one that may be 75% covered by ice.
But, yes, the amount of "old" aka multi-year ice is an important factor.
Up until my late twenties, that worked fine for me but the further into my 30s, the more I had to watch how much I ate and when despite keeping active.
A young man's metabolism can be a wonderful thing, but it doesn't last forever.
Here's a high-level explanation of how the PHES system works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Huge amounts of grid storage are probably not required in the short term but having some cheap storage to handle short-term fluctuations will make the grid operators jobs easier and will keep down the peak costs.
Now if something like Isentropic's Pumped Heat Energy Storage pans out and is cheaper than batteries, that would be a radical shift in the electricity market.
Where could you not find a place to build 2 large-ish tanks filled with gravel & argon?
Every large wind farm, power plant or community could build its own local energy storage and there's not a huge upkeep on a system based on pebbles & inert gas.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
