Mass is a backwater and backwoods of energy and heavy industry, with politicians who are addicted to petty theft of public funds, so just a bigger Rhode Island...... tiny state that gave away its manufacturing base outside of biotech 50+ years ago. I am much more concerned long term about keeping industrial power cheap in the upper Midwest, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, the states connected by the US inner waterways to delivery points anywhere in the world. We would like for Pennsylvania and Ontario to participate in the industrial ecosystem, but they really do not have to, NC and SC are looking to be that role with making parts for the people who make parts.

It isnt the count that are going online, it is the total count that are staying online or being replaced. 30+ will be locked in for power generation until 2050. For 25%-35% of the baseline in the US and 65% in France the nations that walked away all want it back.....except the folks in California.

You would be 150% wrong about Texas not getting a lot of wind. The bowl of Houston sometimes gets under a tropical dome for a month or two, but that is few weeks, with a lack of breeze being a problem. Ever been to beach in Corpus? Ever Been West bound on I-40? University in Texas did the research optimizing large scale wind turbine systems about the same time the northern Germans did in the very early 90s. I think people have to travel or read a history book a bit before making statements.

Cannot park inside. A 5Amp extension cord at 120V and gallon of D can keep a bus warm and toasty for 8 hour of charging with proper planning. That is how you get any heavy truck started in the morning, from a WWII army truck, a 1980s short bus, to a new freightliner, you flex duct enough hot air under the right compartment and it is warm even if not got an internal heat source running. The ICE alternative was to keep one mechanic on duty and idle 8 buses all night at about 3 times the fuel flow. The winter night mechanic also drove each bus into the one heated barn, cleaned the windows, topped up the fluid, did more than a pre trip inspection and fixed the squaks. The operational cost fallacy of north America governmental units is predicting cold weather fuel costs will be insane in the future, for north America that is not the case.

A new invention called a resistive heater can heat batteries even on the roll inside an encloser to 30C at -10C. Either the bus is in service with a state of charge or it should be on a 300kw cord. In fact the dehumidification system for the cablin will take all the 40F fluids one can pump and put it in the HVAC system and remove the moisture that causes problems in the cabin. Most drive motors are fluid cooled, you can make any eclectic motor into a heater by running solid DC through it with the parking breaks set. Once the bus is moving, waste heat is more than the batteries need to keep warm.

Here is the thing, nobody on either side of the environmental debate has ever really had an issue with a regenerative breaks, a small battery pack and acceleration motor of a heavy public transport hybrid. If it costs only 30% more than an ICE and lasts 40% longer and costs 20% in general maninace (no break and rotors ever 2 years), and consumes 1/3 less fuel, sign me up for no more bus break sounds. A light hybrid is a joy to drive while minimizing fuel burn and providing all the electric heat one needs for the cabin. 10 years ago there was a crowd who loudly said you do not want EVs protecting human life on roads that sometimes come to a complete stop for 15+ hours. These are the same people who in weather keep their cars 3/4s or more full, a parka in the trunk, buy a new car battery every 2 years and have multiple sets of gloves, blankets, a tow strap and perhaps some grit in the trunk. The point is perhaps we should listen to the people who stated total EV tech might never reach the predicted nirvana in some climates. The only case where you almost never are to far from rescue on public transport is airport shuttles to the rental lot.

The simple things like scrubbers and better controls bringing India's electrical generation plants up to 1990s western standards would be a start.

The big urban coal electrical generation plants have been upgraded with pollution controls that have been mandatory in the west since the 1990s.

The same scrubbers that were put on coal power plants in the 1980s in the west have been introduced to specific places in china.

Half off is expensive after a technology sector bust, my example is post 2000 and 2008 , expect 5 cents on the dollar on everything from Core Switches to $400 desk chairs. Getting the most supportable 2 or 4 U servers filled with DDR5 and rugged laptops are already on my doomsday shopping list. A 16 to 32 core server with 256G of ram is useful at almost any speed at the right price, lets face it the world is tied together with code that does not need ultimate performance. Unfortunately that used server was 500 bucks a year ago, now it is 2000 bucks. To be any sort of hotness the min price went from 2.5k to 10k.

What I cannot convince the local luddites is that we are on the same tune as 90 years ago. Tremendous investment in machine tools did wonders for the US economy 1942-1992, the further replacements revolutionized manufacturing across the western world. Last I knew RAM was not a consumable resource if not ran out of spec. It 95% likely those sticks will work next year. The hyperscalars knowing RAM is now expensive will make a point of harvesting ram of the technologies that roll off from 5 years ago and this era will fade away and price per performance will go back to the historical trend of cheaper and cheaper. SSD and Spinning HD lifetimes will be stretched, 3 year old drives still have insane densities in ways that were not true 20 years ago. Storage, Highly cached or in a frozen in stone state, if it be in the cloud or local is likely to get cheaper when our cloud friends discover they have to much of it and it is time to show cashflow of a few dimes per Terabyte Month. What we are discovering that instead of storing security video it might be cheaper for AI to filter only the interesting parts. There is no lack of datacenter rack volume, there is no lack of data center connectivity, power per compute is nosediving with every generation of AI, distributed, ARM, IOT. The only thing in technology seems to be cell towers that can hold barn door sized 5G arrays. That infrastructure seems to be limited by tower climbers calendars.

Thing about a coal plant, it is dirt cheap to convert into a NG fired plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The spinning mass of multiple 200MW turbine is valuable to every power grid in being a giant very short term buffer to sag. The excuse for the plant, is the coal firing. You need 40 tons kept up to speed in sych with the power grid either way, and coal in the situations they build the plant are cheap and keep another group work. Same way as western PA has coal plants, it is just our politicians are more stupid and thought they did not need voters in western PA. Opps.

It would be put to the property owners insurance policy if it was non trivial to pursue damages unless the operator was also under a real estate lease agreement that covers Daman age to common spaces and things. The property owners insurance policy company many go after the drone operator, the drone operators insurance policy will offer a fair settlement because anything under 15k is not worthy of more than angry letters. The whole point of drone operations that the damage is always less than can be caused by a contractor on a e-bike and to keep the terminal velocity and kinetic energy about the same as a kicked soccer ball, hurts but isnt deadly.

A Tesla is Conservative Dog Whistle now, and I am putting a shot gun rack in mine.