They're still in denial about that. Had one just a couple days ago saying that the gas price increases are just the regular price increase in the spring.

There's a bit of subversion here though: Going by my uncle, social security disability has made it even easier: They automatically reject every application the first time.

I was just reading a story where a woman ended up in jail six months, extradited to North Dakota from Tennessee.
The only evidence it was her was an AI facial recognition match between her social media/driver's license and the video of the actual suspect.
It wasn't until the first court date that the public defender got her financial records showing she was in Tennessee when the crime actually happened.
Then they kicked a southern state person out into ND winter without proper clothing, not even bothering to get her a ride back home.

She lost her house and car due to non-payment because she couldn't pay bills while in jail.

Looking, she'll probably end up with a $2-3M settlement.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

I actually do, it is just that you don't understand the analogy.
Basically, by forgiving the loans, it's the equivalent of the government refunding the money the person was supposed to pay back.
Keep in mind that people sometimes have to declare loan forgiveness as income.

Double checking, the "at least double" and "slightly higher capacity factor" might be considered inaccurate.
Onshore vs offshore wind energy: types of wind energy, difference and cost
This site suggests a 43% price increase per MW, but capacity factor goes to 38% from 24%, a 58% increase.

So if we take $3.13M per MW divided by .24 = $13M per capacity factor adjusted continuous MW for onshore.
$4.49M per MW for offshore divided by .38 = $12M per MW adjusted.

Though NREL 2024 has levelized cost of energy for offshore fixed bottom wind turbines being almost 3 times the price as land based.

IRENA has on-shore at around $0.042 per kWh, and offshore around 0.062, around 50% more.

My thinking is thus that a mix of both might be good, as the more install areas we have, the more level the production is likely to be, reducing the need for storage. Plus, would depend on whether or not the power provider has good on-land areas for wind turbines, or good offshore areas. Texas has a lot of good spots on land, while states like New York, or the east coast in general, may not.

Double checking, the "at least double" and "slightly higher capacity factor" might be considered inaccurate enough to downmod.
Onshore vs offshore wind energy: types of wind energy, difference and cost
Suggests a 43% price increase per MW, but capacity factor goes to 38% from 24%, a 58% increase.

So if we take $3.13M per MW divided by .24 = $13M per capacity factor adjusted continuous MW for onshore.
$4.49M per MW for offshore divided by .38 = $12M per MW adjusted.

This makes offshore slightly cheaper.

Remember when the Supreme Court ruled Biden's idea to forgive or "refund" people's student loans was unconstitutional?

I think this should be ruled unconstitutional. It is congress that has the power of the purse, Trump shouldn't be able to pay anything for something like this without their approval.
If he does cause it to be paid, it should come out of his own personal finances.

ROI for a private space station would be charging governments for access to do the research and such.

Remember, the context here was specifically cops (who in this case can also be criminals), who are less likely to be using jammers and shutting off breakers.

I'd argue that your best option would be a mix of "all the above". Yes, having cameras that don't shut off just because power is turned off, or that can be stopped by jammers is best. But part of the idea is to lure any attackers (police and/or criminal) into a false sense of security. So them jamming the visible wifi cameras and missing the much more subtly placed PoE cameras (with the switch and/or DVR on an UPS) would be perfect.

Real cameras are cheap enough today that mounting them, just not bothering to hook them up, might actually be cheaper.

My favorite though is having them all hooked up, but having hidden cameras along with the obvious ones. Have the hidden cameras specifically watching the real cameras.
Then pay the money and have a fat enough pipe to the internet for cloud storage (could even be a server you own elsewhere, to help avoid companies that bend over even without a warrant).
It can result in some absolutely shocking/hilareous footage, like the time the cops arrested a major station news reporter, not realizing that the cameraman didn't shut the camera off and that they had been in the middle of a live broadcast. The cops didn't know how to shut the professional level camera off, and the station kept broadcasting the stream to the entire city.
Even as they discussed how to fake up charges against the reporter and his crew.
I think it took the governor calling the police chief to get them to release the reporter and drop all mention of charges before things got even worse for them.

Then you use generation from elsewhere, further east or west, north or south.

And if your power is down because of a broken power line and it taking the power company that long to fix it, the power company having 5 days of storage isn't going to help.
If I think I'm going to have a 5 day outage with 40kWh (1 day's average use), I can conserve quite a bit by doing things like turning HVAC and the water heater off. Grilling outside on propane rather than cooking inside. Heck, I even have a couple camping stoves I can use.

I like stainless steel and cast iron, so it isn't like my cookware cares about being used on gas stoves rather than induction.

Do you have any citations on why you think you'd need 5-6 days worth of storage with Wind/Solar?

I have to admit, I had to double check the article myself. Didn't realize it was a BOGO pricing deal.

I think that the critical part is that while still too expensive for grid storage that extensive for the power company, I average around 40 kWh/day. $2,800 for a Power Wall type system capable of powering my house for a day? That isn't a bad price at all.