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Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 180

We do have such laws. I've caught a discrepancy several times, twice at the same store in the same month. I no longer go to that store.

The issue is you have to remember what the shelf price was, then notice while checking out that it has increased, stop the line and demand a price check.

Are you willing to be Kevin or Karen for five minutes? It depends on how much it is. And some people just won't.

Comment Re:Local retransmission fees and forced ESPN need (Score 1) 101

That's an interesting point. In my case I'm out of range of broadcast TV and there is no cable service either. It's satellite, streaming, or nothing.

I chose nothing.

The TV station is 120 miles away, the advertising on that station is of no value, I'm not driving a 240 mile trip for shopping in some store in that city. Do the advertisers know that the audience numbers the station claims include people who are not ever going to visit the store? Are the advertising rates adjusted appropriately?

Comment Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score -1, Troll) 59

That was funny. Even if think Bari Weiss is Goebbels and add on Fox you still have ABC, NBC, MS NBC and of course NPR on the hardest of the hard left side.

The we have The Atlantic (graciously accept your subservience to the European elite) and VOX, (total enslavement to the All-Glorious State is the highest calling of human-kind.) There is also the New York Times (The deep state is your friend, trust the deep state.)

If you want to be a subject of an All-Glorious State move to Europe.

Comment Re:All good but... (Score 1) 151

The good socialists down there should have been doing this all along. It's warm in Cuba and you don't get the 15 hour December nights we have to deal with up north. It wouldn't take that big of a battery to keep the refrigerator running over night. A solar thermal collector will supply the hot water.

The biggest issue is anchoring the panels well enough to stay put in a hurricane.

Comment In town or reclamation bond. (Score 2) 120

The rust belt, which includes Ohio, is full of abandoned industrial sites most of which already have decent power supplies and other utilities. Put the data centers there.

If they absolutely insist on a green field project then at the very least require a reclamation bond to pay for demolition and cleanup of the site when it gets abandoned in a few years.

Comment Re:Cheaper Batteries == Game over (Score 4, Interesting) 135

Trump doesn't need to stop it, the wind stops all by itself. Posting once again the graph I look at every day...

https://transmission.bpa.gov/b...

The green line is mostly wind, installed capacity is 2800 MW. The green line also includes 138 MW of solar. Yesterday was cloudy so it didn't help much.

One other thing I'll note is that Wisconsin will definitely test the temperature tolerance of the battery. 90 F in the summer (more if it's in town) and -20 in the winter (less if it's in the country).

Comment Re: You know what? (Score 1) 71

That's in absolutely perfect conditions. Divide 400,000 by 3 for a reasonable average, by 6 for a calmer day, and realize that there will be days when the whole project produced nothing.

Got backup?

In January the BPA had a 13 day run where the 2800 MW of installed wind produced less than 10% of nameplate. Hopefully the offshore turbines will do better.

Comment Re:10-15 years? that's awfully fast (Score 2) 24

The capability has been used before. The last 2 million years of climate yo-yos in and out a glacial episodes has put a premium on ability to adapt.

As glaciers come and go so do the rain bands, borders of the tropics, sea levels, etc. it not just the areas outside the tropics that get to play.

Comment Re:Such BS overselling (Score 2) 120

My refrigerator draws 200 watts. Starting current is the issue.

The freezer draws 165 watts even though it's colder.

I can and have run them both at the same time on an 800 watt inverter. Start the refrigerator first then a couple minutes later start the freezer.

The microwave on startup daws more than 15 amps and the killawatt meter won't read the peak.

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