I said "route." It's pretty clear where you go if I answer that question. It's also irrelevant to the hypocrisy I was talking about.

But since you're so sincerely interested in what I think, here:

I don't think it's a good idea for anybody to be able to spend money to influence elections.

I also think it's a bad thing for countries to invade their neighbours, sponsor coups, rig voting and have official foreign propaganda organs.

Sure. There are lots of reasons you'd keep something like a nuke, or anything spinning up a big hunk of very expensive metal, running at a constant rate. It's also a pain in the ass to get the control room guys to put their doughnuts down. As opposed to something like solar where you just... do nothing.

It's interesting the fantasies some people have, especially about electricity and nuclear power in particular.

OMG IF YOU DON'T USE THE ELECTRICITY IT EXPLODES!!!

Nuclear plants can idle. They can do it pretty fast too, and they certainly don't "blow up" when they do. The problem can be how long it takes them to ramp up again afterward. That's not really THIS problem either though. Nuclear reactors produce heat, not electricity. You can take some of that heat and make electricity from it, but you can also not do that.

Negative electricity prices are the result of things like fixed price contracts, the need to pay workers, leases, etc., and accounting that treats operating at a loss for a short period as "negative."

Ah, you've decided to go the straw man route. Congratulations!

Again, you are wrong. Dynamic pricing != ERCOT cutting you off which was your claim. If you want to reduce usage based on price, you can. ERCOT will not do it except in an emergency. And if you think a DC, a auto assembly line, a smelter, a hospital, a ... is going to reduce usage because the price went up, you are living in a altered reality. And really most of that price variation is to bring generation to match demand, not the other way round. It also allows for that utility scale battery to get paid for. Buy low, sell high.And as I mentioned with near 20GWh of battery now, that investment needs a return. It is slurping down 6GW of excess solar juice at the moment to sell high later today.

Your utility. Anything you hook up to the utility power that can backfeed is their playground. The lege in this case directed the utility by law to allow backfeeds up to 1200W. I've got a larger system installed, and the utility had to sign off AND inspect to ensure it was in compliance with their requirements. Then there is the whole matter of how much the utility will pay you if you backfeed, Again their playground, their rules. I'm not sure if the Cal lege mandated the backfeed rate. Wasn't in the summary. Summary sounded like they cannot end up net positive for the billing period, so possibly basic net metering.

President Von Shitzenpants

That's one I haven't heard. Bravo.

And that first statement is just jibberish. I just noticed. Commercial generally does not go offline unless ERCOT declares an emergency. Last one I remember was the big freeze. ERCOT keeps somewhere between 10-15GW ready to spin up. They plan the day before for the next day and if you look at the graphs, they are usually within a gw or 2. Generation is balanced by consumption. ERCOT tells generation what they need and generation complies.

Sorry not correct. "A key point here is that almost all electricity transmission connections are bi-directional and the cost of making them so is a trivial addition on uni-directional transmission."

See https://www.csemag.com/designi... as one example. It seems simple, but it is not. And if you watch the grid (I do) you'll see a typical pattern. early morning, solar coming online, prices drop, batteries start slurping the excess solar as the Nat gas peakers start to wind down. Late day, batteries dumping into grid as solar winds down and peakers come up. Prices go up. There are numerous variations depending on weather and season. But summer, that is the typical pattern. And keep in mind, the planned DC's lately are over a GW of demand. Over 1% of the entire grid currently. Huge. Although battery on the ERCOT grid is getting substantial. I'll see 10GW pushed/pulled now. Sounds like you've bought into the hype.

I don't think we need just one. Variety is wonderful. Mango Mussolini, Cheeto Benito, Agent Orange, Adolf Twitler, TACO. Even better, you can use a bunch of them to avoid repeating.

Ah, so free speech should be limited?

I'm not saying I disagree. I'm saying the propaganda needs some tuning. Sounds like you and the GP think maybe a great firewall might not be such a bad idea yeah?

Not using a 2400 bps modem to complain about how tiresome new technology is.

Nah. It's because Ford got off a sick burn talking about how much real estate there is on his ass so Trump has lots to kiss.

There's something the kids say about only a handful of unique sentences being left unwritten.

Ketchup.