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I think they may be down to the 2 minute drill on all green. In 24 months the political winds will likely shift further right.
Their priority for green energy is immediate. At the same time the price of oil is their biggest worry. It can easily spike way up and everyone knows it. They will sell their soul for oil anywhere they can get it except the US. Drillers be damned.
Meanwhile Nat Gas producers in Odessa and Midland Texas are selling their product to Europe and literally keeping them afloat. We have little or no excess capacity for oil and little Nat gas in the northeast. But they are coming to the rescue with offshore wind off the Pacific coast.
Birds be damned.
West is a trivial person to me. What I categorize as mind clutter. If someone wants to be offended by him they can go to Twitter, Tic Toe and Facebook and actively choose to be insulted. I’m on no social media accounts. That’s my choice.
I know it’s splitting hairs but we make our choices. I don’t care what Musk does with his Twitter toy. You’d rather see West banned. It makes you feel better. I don’t care.
I can always come to CEB and read very good posts when I want from everyone including yourself. And I’d love to see Mendi and Fog City here too.
Belated Happy Thanksgiving as well.
Pretty good way to celebrate Thanksgiving Mick. How many people were involved over 3 days?
Good topic and very complicated. I’ve been trying to understand the electricity market for a while. It’s like no other.
As an example, my understanding is that the cost of a megawatt of power generated from a nuclear power plant to the market is about $40/hr. A megawatt can supply electricity to 400 – 900 homes. But in times of imbalances in supply such as a very hot or cold weather conditions, the spot market for that megawatt can go to $1,000 or more. A nuclear plant can generate and sell excess capacity to nat gas, oil, and coal plants quickly for their customers regardless of location. Places like San Diego, New York and Los Angeles frequently have imbalances. I believe the grid is set up so that places with excess capacity can get electricity to trouble spots right away at high prices and the location. How this is done, I don’t know.
But your are dealing with kinetic energy and physically rotating machinery. With green energy you can’t get excess capacity anywhere near as fast to rebalance the the shortages.
I’d love to hear from anyone who knows how this all works. Especially the spot energy market.
[quote quote=6631]Both sides? JFC. I am going to regret engaging here, but I didn’t realize this delusion is still alive.[/quote]
The purpose of the Jan 6 Commission was to win an election. Otherwise it would have been bipartisan. I tend to believe Trump is indictable but not convictible in a fair trial because once you poison the well with censorship it can never be reversed. That’s where we all lose.
The only difference between you and me is that I believe in freedom. You believe in freedom and want censorship. BTW they are coming for Elon Musk for believing in free speech.
The Justice Dept and the NY AG want to arrest, convict and jail Trump. They want to publicly destroy, bankrupt, and humiliate him and everyone who supports him. Now is the best time to do it because if it backfires there will be 2 years to recover.
The tragedy of this election for the American people may end up being that we will never know in it’s entirely what happened on Jan 6 unless Republicans take the house and continue the Jan 6 hearings and bring forward defense witnesses to get to the bottom of all involved on both sides. So far it has been a sham trial. If Democrats take the House they can run the hearing indefinitely to divert attention from all of the ongoing problems they have created. They will have Trump and Republicans in a straight jacket.
[quote quote=6589]How anyone could consider voting for that Satanic looking MFer is beyond me. Career spent on the sofa of his parent’s house. Demtards are truly mentally ill.[/quote]
Hard to believe but the Demtards are going for broke in PA. But when you think about it we have a navy ship called the Harvey Milk. We have a transgender admiral. A President that has dementia. And a Federal Reserve that has been tasked with climate and equity change. And a VP that…I won’t go there.
Fetterman is kind of middle of the road.
I don’t like public shaming tactics. But the math in the calculations is interesting.
The average user in MUD is 205 gal/day. That’s the mean and gives cover to a lot of users up to 1646/day. The fine threshold is $2/748 gallons of use above 1646 gal/day x60 (I assume). That number is variable. 748 + 1646 = 2394 = $2 fine threshold x 60 days = $120 for the lowest threshold (748/day x 60) above.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but 1646 gallons/day over 2 billing cycles makes you an abuser subject to shame but not fine. So you can use up to 2393 gals/day and not be fined but you can be shamed. 2394 x 60 and above makes you a water leper.
Reminds me of the IRS code. They would be smarter to simply bracket usage costs and forget the shaming. And for low users give them water rebates. Kind of an Earned Income Credit for water use.
The Democrat leadership showed themselves to be grossly inept to let it get this far. They likely lost the Senate last night and then some in a key state. Kind of a metaphor for how the whole country has been run for the last two years.
Those big Democratic Super Pacs and Chuck Schumer must have been in panic mode last night. They call the shots. Do you put any more money in to PA? Do you bring in Obama to try to shore up the campaign? They can’t give him the hook and go for a Hail Mary because of all the absentee votes that have been cast already.
As to the SPR, it looks like the Administration wants to sell the oil at 80 until it’s depleted then and wait until it gets to 280 to buy it back.. Makes sense to me.
As rj said “the electorate isn’t too bothered by mental incapacity in political leadership”. Nor are they aware – much less care about the lies told to them.
They do care about diversity and equity. That’s our strength. Makes me wonder why the military still has uniforms and ranks.
Exactly. Washington is a political Death Star. Most of the electorate have been uprooted from reality. It’s pissing me off.
Neither candidate in Georgia is the sharpest knife in the drawer. At least they have their marbles.
Try to imagine what it would be like to have a President in office who didn’t have his marbles and a VP that was even more dim witted.
The media has given the story a “good leaving alone”. Saying nothing is as loud as saying something. And when they do say something it’s a lie. They lie to us. We know they lie to us. They know we know. They keep lying. We keep pretending.
Looking at the websites of AP and UPI this week and when the CPI numbers came down Tuesday there was no mention on either. These are 2 of the biggest news bureaus in the world. Nada. Zilch. That’s was a big story which effects everyone.
As to the article above, I’ll bet there were very few people who read it. But NY mag they can say with a wink and a nod that they covered it.
Interesting topic. They are not smarter but they know more because they have the answer book at their finger tips. A 7th grader can easily look up how to hang a door or how Nicola Tesla’s original AC induction motor worked in short time. What’s a derivative? Everything, in detail, is there for the asking. No more slide rules.
An organic chemistry professor I know well at a very prestigeous university told me what he sees in today’s students. My question to him was how often he comes across a brilliant student. He estimated about 1 in 200. Said they came up with solutions that he had never considered. He talked about grading and said these kids needed a A in organic to get in med school so the pressure was enormous. He was a very tough grader. The A students of course needed a recommendation from him to get into med school and he began to notice something odd. He decided that when they came to him that he would find out how much they knew about organic chemistry. To quote him “many A students didn’t know shit”. How could this be? Turns out many of them were memory experts and could memorize anything and not understand it. He also noticed that many of the A students in classroom work were C students and lab work. The reverse held true. C students in class were often A students in Lab.
He went on to talk about highly motivated students with poor primary or secondary training. Said kids needed to be well grounded in math. He felt that if you did not learn math early no level of motivation could help you learn it later on no matter how hard you tried. He felt the brain had to be wired for math early in a child’s development.
He also noted that the department slowly gutted the course content by nearly 40% to solve that problem.
