A 100% unearned reverse meet-cute that was cleverly done, but not nearly as clever as it thought it was?

yeah but La La Land is fucking awful.

Except you didnt need to pay attention to any of that to enjoy it as a horror movie.

Fuck Scooter Braun forever. 

Just dont try to get the landlord to replace it thinking that they couldnt possibly make it worse. There is always a worse oven out there for a landlord. 

I work in the oil industry but my one true love will always be efficiency (and nuclear energy). And I also cant stand NIMBY cowardice.

You should really check out her website, too. 

Yeah but think of summertime braising! Or am I the only one with a horribly inefficient stove that heats the house faster than the furnace?

Because the larger you get the less margin of error exists in the grid. A city can go 100% renewable since any longterm low power generation can be easily made up by the larger regions diverse (and fossil fuel based) grid since gas plants can ramp up pretty easily. But if the whole region goes 100% renewable and is…

Something tells me you wouldnt exactly chafe living under an authoritarian regime....

Except they aren’t and they dont?

Yeah but the whole point of an InstaPot is that it can take a 8, 12, or 16 recipe and condense it down to 3-4 hours.

Ah, it was the other person that brought up california. You realize that you can do anything on a small scale and just push the downsides onto everybody else right? That isnt scalable. 

Um 98% for California? California gets almost half of its power from gas plants. 

Is this a joke?

Massively overbuilding wind or solar or both is not exactly profitable, building massive batteries is also not exactly profitable. You could probably build up to 25%, maybe even 50% (in the summer) without sacrificing too much but that would be quite a stretch and you would still need some pretty serious subsidies to…

Except that is not really true. They can only do that during the summer or during heavy wind periods. They also require the old “first sold” rules to stay viable, as in they get to sell every last electron of their power before the other sources can sell any of theirs. If those other sources suddenly disappeared the…

Heating and cooking (which is also heating) is much more efficiently done with natural gas than it is with electricity. We should focus on the inefficiencies, but cities are desperate to look like they are doing something. 

100% solar or wind is a total pipe dream because of seasonal shifts. You would need to overbuild the capacity by 50-100% in order to account for low wind and winter months. And the need for battery storage and solar and wind struggle desperately to ever produce more energy that they required to make.