It would be even better to just use Green energy with battery backup.

Your utopia didn't turn out so well for Germany. Shutting down all their nuclear plants and going green.

Did they add battery backup? No? That's why it didn't go well.

Only to need to pay inflated prices to import power from France's nuclear plants.

Inflated? Probably not. Because it is not cost effective to ramp nuclear power up and down to meet demand, France sheds load when they produce too much power, and they do this by dumping excess electricity to their neighbors. And when electrical demand is high and France cannot generate enough power, they import power back from their neighbors. This is why even nuclear needs grid storage.

Then there's all the industries leaving Germany because they can't get reliable power to operate manufacturing plants.

Who told you that Germany is experiencing brownouts and blackouts?

Indeed, but we must be diligent in being intolerant of the intolerant or we will lose our freedoms.

Nuclear power is dispatchable to some extent, meaning it can adapt to varying requests

That almost never happens, because it's cheaper to run at 100% 24/7 and import and export electricity as needed to meet demand. For this reason, no country runs on 100% nuclear power, even France doesn't. But grid storage can change this.

Nuclear is not dispatchable and so it has the same problem as renewables of producing enough electricity when it is needed.

The solution for both is the same: grid storage.

I'm in my late 60s...you think we have all the stuff and money.

The median net worth of a person in their late 60s is $410,000, while that of a person under 35 is $39,040. So the person you're responding to has an evidence-based point.

It's even worse in California where voters in 1978 (people born in 1960 or earlier who would be in their mid to late 60s today) decided to rob from future generations and then require a supermajority to repeal what they did.

But you're right that many elderly are poor, the ones who don't own a home.

ISO 23662 allows manufacturers to self-declare compliance so it's kind of useless.

I suspect many instances of industry self regulation were done on the threat of government intervention so I wouldn't really call those success stories.

In warm weather, lithium ion outperforms sodium ion. In cold weather, sodium ion outperforms lithium ion.

Besides being cheaper, sodium ion cells also last much longer than lithium ion, so for those two reasons battery wear is less of an issue.

Think about how incompetent your local government is at doing, well everything.

Do airlines build airports better than governments do?

Bus-only lanes reduce capacity for cars, which makes cars travel slower

A statement can only be true if its contrapositive is also true. Does adding lanes for cars make them travel faster? Los Angeles built freeways for cars and widened them over and over again, but did it solve their traffic congestion? No, it didn't. The contrapositive of your statement is not true, and therefore your statement also is not true.

So you see, adding lanes does not make cars faster (at least not in an economically vibrant area), nor does removing lanes make cars slower. This defies common sense and that's why it's a paradox.

...is bus-only lanes. Where buses don't get stuck in car traffic, people ride them, freeing up a LOT of road space for people who still have to drive.

Also try not to get your image into the image recognition software's database.

Because many people do in fact lack state-issued photo ID. Ignoring this fact won't make it go away.

ZERO progress

Go away, troll. This is a list of structures that have been built so far.

Being "pro-business" at all costs means being anti-resident, anti-environment, anti-worker, and anti-consumer.

Therefore, being pro-resident, pro-environment, pro-worker or pro-consumer might brand you as being anti-business.

There's a balance to be had among all of these things. Let's find that balance.

It went from $4B to $120BN.

No, the Prop 1A voter guide gave an estimate of $45 billion in 2006 dollars, which is $71.9 billion in 2025 dollars.

The $126.2 billion is in year of expenditure dollars, most of which is still in the future, so let's call it $100 billion in 2025 dollars.

So in constant year dollars, the price went up from $71.9 billion to $100 billion. So there's a little room for improvement.