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23 days agooil and gas?
and coal.
You raise a good point, though.
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They point to a blend of public, private, social, and political patterns of corruption in the California solar energy market.
1. Clientelism and favoritism: Hiring friends or family over others for solar projects and unfairly allocating government contracts or permits to project developers, which in one instance led to an investigative report questioning the influence of a sexual relationship.
2. Rent-seeking and land grabbing: Redirecting public funds or lands to benefit private developers and taking communal or public land from Indigenous peoples or other groups for energy infrastructure siting.
3. Service diversion: Withholding local benefits, such as lower electricity bills, or distributing locally generated power only to higher-paying parts of the state.
4. Theft: Forceful removal of flora or cultural artifacts, or disturbing animal habitat, to build solar project sites.
5. Greenwashing: Misleading the public about a solar project’s environmental benefits; using flawed environmental or cultural impact assessments to evaluate project impacts, such as pollution of nearby waterways; and overriding environmental protections to fast-track solar infrastructure expansion.
6. Tax evasion and avoidance: Not paying or underpaying taxes, or governmental authorities strategically failing to adequately allocate project funds to communities impacted by solar project development.
7. Non-transparency: Hiding, manipulating, or failing to disclose relevant or important information surrounding solar projects, such as the local economic benefits and environmental impacts.
even though, IIUC, more Californians voted for Trump than those in any other US state.
Fungi is more adaptive than humans, I suppose.
2·1 year agoHe forgot to turn it off when the wind wasn’t blowing.
I just got this from reddit:
Renewables covered 95% of Portugal’s power needs last month
😁🙂
They have at least 5 months.
(this posted 00:55 UTC, 27 May 2024 (8:55 PM EDT, 26 May 2024))
As of March 2024, India’s cumulative installed solar capacity reached 82 GW.
so about 70 watts per Indian?
Enjoy your summer, Trump supporters: it’ll be 120 days until Autumn Equinox.
If he loses in 2024, I kind of hope he runs again in 2028, and if he fails, again in 2032.
He and each of his many supporters.
I was doing the metric equivalent.
The problem is mLs and ounces sound too small.
The good thing about 100 is that in turns mLs and ounces into liters and pounds, or gallons, as the case may be;
but that 100—I like units more than x-number-of-units as the basis of expression.
Nonetheless, I guess its GPHM, LPHKM, GPH, and LPH, until we come up with something better.
Then we have wp:natural gas vehicles and wp:miles per gallon gasoline equivalent, as LNG, CNG, and electric will probably become more common.
If 33.40 kilowatt-hours/mile ≈ 74.71 Mj/km
then if an electric car had an MPG equivalent of 40,
it’d be 0.835 kilowatt-hours/mile ≈ 1.87 Mj/km
“x ℓ/100”
maybe.
maybe “x mL/km” (“x milliliters/km”)—as in “80 mL/km”
or
maybe “x kL/Mm” (“x kiloliters/megameters”)—as in 0.8 kL or 800ℓ/Mm"
I have to think about it. 🤔
Good point, but GPHM has more syllables, and GPM makes it sound small;
but still, maybe 50, 25, 15, and 10 MPG could be expressed as 0.02, 0.04, <0.07, and 0.1 GPM.
Much of the West is north of Tallahassee, Florida: Delhi isn’t.
Why would they want to help turn their country into a sauna when they don’t have to?
That’s 116.6°F, and apparently Delhi is about twice the size and population of NYC.
Meanwhile (as it’s 02:44 UTC, 12 June 2025) Australia is probably getting over 100 trillion watts of sunlight.