Household commercial rates do support the grid more than commercial rates, but commercial enterprises pay up front for substations and additional capacity, while households finance it over infinity ran by not so saucerful corporate creatures who landed a utility job. Rural customers do pay more to connect to the grid, and tend to be low cost until the storm blows through. As the residential customer goes away with rooftop solar and cheap storage, its the poor renters in multifamily that are going to be paying 6%+ of their incomes just to keep the lights on, that 50% of that cost is a failed green effort by the ALGORE those urban lefty leaders will forget. 40 years plus of nuclear industry support, I can jump and down and say, TOLD you SO, baseline power expansion is the only true long lasting expansion of the grid. Everything else is a gift to the vendors to your local utility company.

This is yet another cheap Content Distribution Network for NASA, that also shows the way for any other publicly funded stream. YOUTUBE, NETFLIX has made investments to get storage and real time multicasting (in broadcast TV terms) into you internet providers headend, where you are paying the freight for packets to your unicast home endpoint. If the department of education survives, perhaps this is something they can partner with, and have rich(media) public school curriculum available for snow days nation and state wide. There is no reason all lectures have to be delivered locally is what has been discovered over the past 5 years, lets attempt to use it.

And it could be economic peak tax strategy from Google - Take a 200 billion dollar loss today, get the green cred, and never pay taxes again with the deferred loss.

Since I was in middle school the lack of investment in commercial Fusion has always been the complaint why we do not get beyond 40 years away.

Here is the investment, so burn 10 billion on Fusion boondoggle, and recognize the problem spend 190 Billion on 3 to 10 fission power plants with the old school known product vendors with the same rated capacity and zero technology risk. Same amount of power, lower risk, and send the waste to Yucca. Throw another 10 billion at a solar project, and 20 billion at storage and shut up the greens. Pretend solar is the lead, while baseline fission is the cheaper than storage solution but the costs "just got away from us".

More like saying locomotive manufactures know about a simular velocity transportation method, so lets dump 80% of public funding into Baldwin Locomotive Works and ask for something that moves people and does not need tracks.

Boeing and the 3 or 4 Turbine Manufactures can marginally make a product that looks and performs like every other one for the last 50 years that does not regularly kill the kids going to Disney. That takes a remarkable amount of specialized invenstment that may have a tiny relationship to spaceflight, but in reality Boeing is the company that invoices for a collection of subcontractors that form a plane from parts from across the globe.

SpaceX is building a supply chain for rockets in the same way Boeing is a supply chain for flying rail cars. It is going to take 50 years before it no longer a bespoke parts creation effort, into a invoicing method of a collection of reliable parts.

Economy car vs a 1960s skyscraper in a race across the nation. Perhaps a asteroid could hit Gotham, and send the skyscraper fragments across the face of the planet, and sort of redefine race, but it is very unlikely anyone would call that a win.

You make the earth a bit warmer, create clouds, and a good portion of the band your asking about never reaches the surface into the @thesurface budget, it also does not go to space until the clouds dissipate. Clouds cool during the day, Retain heat under a deck during the Night. But eventually, you get a clear night and the surface radiates IR to a few kelvin of space.

The long term carbon measurement has been proxied, has the long term cloud population and transparency. My bet is more temp, higher cloud top rejection of heat to space or some methane gas release over the last million years.

The hard sciences use to be the items that took the cuts first, with the spike being a big hole in Texas and a shuttle flying about 1/5 the pace that was expected. now its the fluffy sciences who have been on a 40 year run of non repeatable results across all the departments that are not directly STEAM that are taking cuts and crying is amazing. The things that once were hard, inventorying galaxies, supernova hunting, processing the spray of 100,000,000 collisions per second, and mapping and storing DNA sequences is trivial amounts of compute and storage companied to the mass of marketing and streaming video for much less serious things.

Democrats had their chance to make Puerto Rico a state, but all indications in actual elections, the people of the non state of PR, Guam and the others are social conservatives in the long run.

Puerto Rico is United States, a territory full of US tax payers and US citizens, it like Rhode Island is not worthy of statehood ....who is the dipshit editor of this article. If the simple stuff gets past the editor, the entire publication should be burnt to the ground.

I really do not understand the coastal elites and the boarder states that ignore work status. Free education promises that are not real because of the student loan program, for some reason full time students dont belive they might need to spend 15 to 30 hours at a part time job. Insist on High min wage for jobs everyone can do, that should be staffed by students and people still living at home between 14 and 23, but become dead end jobs for people who support a family.

Pay illegal immigrants far below the min wage for the "untouchable" jobs, Nanny, Gardener, the less than automated parts of food production. The jobs in construction that are 25/hr when citizenship is required are 15/hr because any illegal is considered ok in CA, TX and FL.

14 to 23 year olds who want to work inside, take 10 to 15 dollars per hour. 14 to 23 year old who want to work outside take 12 to 25 dollar per hour job in farming. Perhaps learn some skills, deal with the well off, figure out how to talk to well off for jobs with more responsibility, so at 25 one can start a household.

There is no "zero sneaky" in the world anymore. Every barrier is just another challenge to be overcome. If collecting near a trillion dollars per year in tarrifs makes ones soul feel better I think we can go ahead. But every one of our peers economically have the same system in place, we just sort of skipped it because we were the sole nation to be in great shape post WWII. Every nation has had their chance to rebuild from WWII, now we treat the peers the same way we are treated and its peal clutching time.

Where did you get that, the history of the steel industry in the past 50 years gives you a good indication why tarrif policy needs to be rapid and responding to the current situation. Republicans and Democrats want to keep steel production on shore, would be nice if it were US stock market companies, but they have keep US steel production on shore with tariffs.

Accuracy and Precision is not a skill taught to journalists, that was in first year of Chemistry or engineering for those of us on the STEM. They seem to want flowing prose and catchy headlines not related to the conclusions of the article. The hapless two side of almost any issue in an article, break down when one side is a professional at deception. I expect AI is very high on Precision with Accuracy all about the training model. For 99.995% of all queries I do not believe it matters, very much like looking up something on a wiki that drives the word based LLMs. Good enough for the freezing point of sea water without consideration of wind or wave, or the capitol of the roman empire in 53BC. Not good enough for motivations of x personality in real time.

The change was detectable result, any result is considered a victory in state and city government, there is no failure, or ROI measures in uni-party government. There have been a lot of toll bridges and toll roads that doubled tolls and saw no datable change in usage, because there still are x number of people who need to do the trip for any reason, and the overall journey is long enough people are not going over the bridge 3 times a day at 16 or 36 dollars per round.