https://transmission.bpa.gov/b...
The green line is available wind and solar, mostly wind. The combined nameplate rating is about 3000 MW.
Your idea would mean there is no AI. I approve of your idea.
They should have invested in extremely small violins.
The gambling/looting operations will not be missed.
No argument there. I'm surprised that none of the delivery vehicles are electric. Even if the snow and ice requires tire chains it shouldn't be a problem except maybe for the post office. If the UPS truck is a day late it's not a crisis. And the UPS and FedEx buildings have parking lots where all the trucks can be recharged at night.
Amazon now has their own drivers delivering out here in the country. It just started a couple months ago.
Now we have three delivery trucks scooting around the place, Fed-Ex, UPS, and Amazon. Four if you count the post office which just dropped off a box yesterday. CO2 emissions be damned.
I well aware that is actually warm in Australia this time of year.
The problem is they are trying to panic people in northern North America about excess heat when the heat pumps have shut down from excess cold.
Panic people about the heat in the summer. Where I live summer time peaks out at about 105 F (40.5 C). Then "It's going to be even worse" might carry some weight.
Other numbers for consideration, summertime inside temp 80 F, outside 105, delta 25 F
wintertime inside temp 65 F, outside -5 F , delta 70 F. (it very rarely gets colder than -5 F here, one reason I don't live near Mother.) Guess when my electric bill is higher? (There is no natural gas service here.)
Days in 2025 the heat pump was in cooling mode for part of the day, (typically 6 to 7 hours), 22
Months where the heat pump is in heating mode all day, November to March inclusive, Partial heating mode months, October, April, first half of May.
Why do they always post these Doom From High Temperatures stories in January?
High temperature at Mother's was 6 F (-14.4 C) today, Night time low was -13 F (-25 C). This was the warmest day of the last four.
Here it's a balmy 34 F (1 C) after a night time low of 20 F ( (-6.7 C).
Save the heat related doom porn until July.
Out of curiosity I looked up what desktops are on BSD.
Even without Plasma there are several to choose from. I'm not seeing a problem here if you are simply trying to get work done.
That was the official IRS rate. I believe it covers insurance, amantenance and depreciation over wha the IRS considers the lifetime of the car.
"WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced that the optional standard mileage rate for business use of automobiles will increase by 2.5 cents in 2026, while the mileage rate for vehicles used for medical purposes will decrease by half a cent, reflecting updated cost data and annual inflation adjustments."
"Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck will be:
72.5 cents per mile driven for business use, up 2.5 cents from 2025.
20.5 cents per mile driven for medical purposes, down a half cent from 2025.
20.5 cents per mile driven for moving purposes for certain active-duty members of the Armed Forces (and now certain members of the intelligence community), reduced by a half cent from last year.
14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations, equal to the rate in 2025.
The rates apply to fully-electric and hybrid automobiles, as well as gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles."
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/i...
I don't make the rules, I just attempt to follow the ones that affect me.
"2025 mileage rates Self-employed and business: 70 cents/mile"
My commute used to use 9 gallons a week and at $4 per gallon (thanks Seattle Democrats) or $144 per month. That doesn't include tires and such.
At IRS rates and a 56 mile round trip per day that's $784 per month which must be depreciation on a Tesla.
"Are you saying diabetes and obesity are fake? Self-inflicted?"
Neither are fake. Type 2 diabetes is often (but not always) due to obesity. Bring down the weight and the diabetes goes away or is much reproduced and easier to keep under control.
As for self-inflicted, the great debate is how much control do you have over what you eat. In theory unless confined to an institution you have complete control. But the food industry has had great success with various Advanced Food Substitutes that short circuit the body's normal control systems. Then add stress eating and other such issues and exactly how much control you have becomes a murky issue.
Speaking of institutions I wonder what the Navy is doing for menus now. That was the place I had the least control over what I ate. It created a permanent dislike of omelettes for breakfast.
We are socked in solid under an inversion layer. It's been like this for a week now. 3000 MW of wind and solar producing nothing. That's the green line at the bottom of the graph.
The frequency cell phones and wi-fi use keeps going up and that means the energy keeps going up as well. (Energy = Planck's constant × frequency).
Furthermore the higher the frequency the lower the penetration so that higher energy load is deposited in a shorter distance into you.
At some point there will be a problem but where exactly I don't know. It's worthwhile checking every decade or so.
Remember not long ago everyone thought that firefighting foam was too chemically inert to be a health problem and now PFAS chemicals are a topic of concern to put it mildly.
"There's no one looking to abandon their office 9-5 to become a roofer for a quarter of the pay."
Minimum wage is $17.13 an hour in WA state. Roofers are eligible for time and a half too. There are other options as well,
"The average salary for a electrician is $39.44 per hour in Washington State and $9,438 overtime per year."
https://www.indeed.com/career/...
If your job goes poof in a cloud of AI smoke you may not have a choice but to change careers. I had an involuntary change of careers myself.
Stay open-minded and flexible, it's all you can do.
I had the same thought, an intelligence greater than government is a very low bar.
How about requiring all bids to be posted for five seconds before closing? How fast can a human trader respond?
1 Sagan = Billions & Billions
