brenthutch
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Wife’s car, she has yet to let me drive it.
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Yup, they ain’t cheap, but the finer things rarely are.
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68 cubic feet for Tesla Y 93.8 for the GLS, it’s not even close. BTW I was wrong when I said I would never own a hybrid.
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I’m afraid you are right. There is the Civic type R that fits the bill (sort of), but those ridiculous scoops, spoilers, and wing would have to go.
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I wonder how many people survived the “unsurvivable” storm surge?
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I hear you, my Accord is going on eight and I have no intention of trading it in until Honda brings back the coupe version with a manual. (It might be awhile)
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All Teslas are too small, and the first year of depreciation was eaten by the dealer. (It’s a 2020, not a 2021)
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Actual storm surge.....9 feet
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Otis the magical wonder beast has a new ride, 2020 GLS450. Not exactly a Prius but it does have an electric motor and regenerative breaking. My lowly Honda is in the background.
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https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/ “We believe the big blind spot in the US for recycling is that the cost far exceeds the revenue,” Meng said. “It’s on the order of a 10-to-1 ratio.” “We need to face the fact that solar panels do fail over time, and there’s a lot of them out there,” he said. “And what do we do when they start to fail? It’s not right throwing that responsibility on the consumer, and that’s where we’re at right now.”
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https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-californias-shift-from-natural-gas-to-solar-is-playing-a-role-in-rolling-blackouts the blackouts were also a side effect of the state’s increasing shift to solar power and away from natural-gas-fired generators, according to state grid operator CAISO ROTFLMAO Just wait an see how quickly California delays the planned closure of its remaining gas generators.
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Your system doesn’t work very well either. Here in the Marcellus shale country we have an abundance of coal and natural gas, and I have never lost power due to a grid failure.
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Clearly their “system” doesn’t work.
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Wow I never thought of it that way. We just need some wind mines and railroad tracks! We could even store a big pile of wind, on site, as an extra backup.
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Sorry, I misread you post. I saw “more gas plants” and “better investment” and jumped the gun. (Note to self, don’t post while trying to get the kids to bed) That said, as I predicted, you would mention battery storage. Here is what MIT has to say, These batteries are far too expensive and don’t last nearly long enough, limiting the role they can play on the grid. If we plan to rely on them for massive amounts of storage as more renewables come online we could be headed down a dangerously unaffordable path. https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/07/27/141282/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/ Wind Solar
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MORE fossil fuel generated electricity? You guys are going to have to rethink your fracking ban if you want to keep those generators fed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_blackout you missed a couple, Bill
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As I recall you had some blackouts in 2000-2001. You are correct to point out that a 400 megawatt loss was due to a natural gas generator, but failed to mention the 1000 MEGAWATT LOSS FROM THE LACK OF WIND. “Saturday's outage happened after 1,000 megawatts of wind power and a 470-megawatt gas plant briefly went offline.” and unlike the natural gas plant, the wind didn’t come back on line.
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The point is, that wind and solar only work when the wind blows and the sun shines. It is unreliable and subject to the whims of Mother Nature. It doesn’t matter how many wind turbines there are when the wind doesn’t blow. 10,000 X zero is still zero. It will only get worse when Diablo Canyon gets shut down and they loose nearly 18,000 gigawatt hours of clean reliable nuclear power.
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They just need to design a system where the sun shines and the wind blows 24/7. If they had just two or three old fashioned coal burning plants they would have been fine. On a separate note, wasn’t all of this “green” energy supposed to prevent heatwaves and wildfires? It would seem obvious that it is not working.
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Not as much as 1000 megawatts of missing wind power. Steve Berberich, the CEO of the state’s Independent Service Operator said, “the wind had been very good, but ran out. If the wind hadn’t run out on us, we would have been ok.” Did you catch that? He didn’t blame wildfires, he didn’t blame lightning strikes he didn’t even blame the heatwave....he blamed the wind, or more specifically the lack there of. California’s green energy debacle should serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of us.
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When the power comes back on in California, Bill can let us know that it’s no big deal and nothing that a dozen gigawatts of battery storage won’t fix. (We won’t mention that that is nearly three times GLOBAL annual production, the tens of billions of dollars and the need to be replaced every several years)
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“The elimination of fossil fuel products as a major form of energy production and the shift to solar power and other forms of green energy has led to what Newsom called “gaps” in the energy grid’s reliability, the Democratic governor said during a press conference Monday.“ https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/17/california-blackouts-renewable-energy-california-gavin-newsom/
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Hang in there Joe, I know that June and July were busts and August doesn’t look much better, but as I said earlier, you still have September.
