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Comment Re:All in on what? (Score 2) 112

We are talking about the UK, not the US.

The only people who will build nuclear in the UK are EDF, who are French. They are currently quoting a minimum of 20 years, but their current 20 year projects here are delayed. No legal issues, they are just crap at building nuclear plants.

If the EDF are such crap at building a machine that should have a "failure is not an option" (because failures at a nuke plant can easily become life-threatening) operating concept, then the UK folks that selected EDF are just as incompetent as the EDF itself.

Comment Re:Not "significantly" (Score 1) 113

Mmm... sources i'm finding say no more than 10% illegal immigrants in LA county and maybe closer to 6%. Though of course those are still still huge numbers compared to the population change numbers being discussed i TFA and this thread.

(and that's without counting their american born children which are relevant if we're talking population growth)

Where are your citations to back your facts?

Same thing can be said of the other poster pointing to government contracts that should be openly available to all for review.

Comment Re:Isn't it funny (Score 1) 44

Isn't it interesting that when investors have their own money on the line, the environmental virtue signaling goes out the window.

Suddenly the Green Energy initiatives of Exxon and BP should be given more credit.

There's nothing logical about your post. Like... nothing at all. There is no virtue signalling - the investment in fossil fuels companies is in the green divisons of those companies.

Even the second part of your statement is baffling. Exxon was infamously laggard as the only oil industry major that didn't do any meaningful green energy work, and the green darling bp has pivoted away from green energy massively recently ... because it didn't make enough money.

Based on your logic you might have invested in the German Wehrmacht and not the SS during WW2.

Supposedly the German Wehrmacht and specifically the Heer were not dirty like the SS.

Multiple history books printed after the 1980s have generally proven that was a fairy tale spun by captured German Heer officers after the war was over to differentiate themselves from the SS and ingractiate (suck up) themselves to their Western captors, basically to avoid trial at Nuremburg.

Comment Re:I'm beginning to think this was deliberate... (Score 1) 82

A while back, a certain terrorist group urged its members to go light stuff up in California. Now, here we get not just talk about arson, but people trying to fly drones into fire fighting planes. Makes me wonder who is behind this, as almost all fires lit in CA seem to be deliberately set.

DumboCraps in Kalyfornya are responsible for instigating it.

They created a living environment that attracts gays, lesbos, "none of the above" types, junkies, criminals, and illegal aliens.

If the Kalyfornya DumboCraps could ever figure out a way to chase all the non-POC ppl out of the State while robbing them of every Dollar they have on the way out while getting the Federal government to fund all of their twisted fantasies (HSR in the middle of NOWHERE) ... they would be so absolutely happy that they might end up doing drugs 24x7 and not care if the world burns down.

They would finally have a State where the ppl that live there will always vote DumboCrap cuz the morons in Sakramento will always bribe their loyal voters with give-a-aways like drug needles & housing & healthcare & gay choirs & "safe" meeting places.

Face it. Kalyfornya is on the borderline of becoming a living breathing example of the failed world seen in that 1973 movie SOYLENT GREEN where the rich ppl (Pelosi, Gruesome, Bass, et.al.) run everything but will not admit the State is totally screwed & the poor ppl fight in the streets for scraps of "food" ... or they become "food" when the scoops roll through the streets.

Comment Re:Is it illegal? (Score 1) 82

Cause if its not illegal, there wont be any consequences. This is America, where people are generally free to be booger-eating morons.

Actually it's a Federal crime.

US Federal prisons range from "Club Fed" resorts (mainly for rich ppl) to 24x7 anal probes from smelly sweaty "don't give a f%&k" dudes named "Bubba" and other psychotic ppl.

The DA's & Courts in Cali might slap your hand and jerk your Johnson, but Federal prosecutors & Courts are card-carrying members of the No Fun Gang, especially if they have an "open & shut" case against you.

Comment Re:Holy Moly (Score 1) 192

So you might favor the Texas model of grid management instead of the California model of generation management?

The operative statement in the Texas model is: As the independent system operator for the region, ERCOT schedules power on an electric grid that connects more than 54,100 miles of transmission lines and 1,250 generation units.

Texas consumers pay part of their single unified electricity bill to the distribution system operator (no consumer choice there) and part to the consumer's choice of generation operator.

As for the Texas PUC and it's lack of enforceable mandates on generator operators that caused the The Great Freeze Out....

https://www.ercot.com/about/pr...

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