What’s new is the closed-loop horizontal drilling in places where geothermal was not possible before

That “or” is fairly surprising to me; its fairly easy to use waste heat from electric generation for district heat. Id expect some modest reduction, but not a total trade-off

They’re apparently allowed to create an “administrative” warrant which doesn’t get signed by a judge and which people don’t need to honor by opening their door. But almost nobody knows the difference between that and a judicial warrant, so they abuse them to the max.

The decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don’t want to say so

New nuclear is a fairly expensive way to generate electricity and site-constrained by cooling water needs. I don’t expect that much to be built.

Wind and solar are however quite cheap. Be just fine to have spot instances in your datacenter. And yes, home users should not be subsidizing big companies.

Her other ideas, like taking wildfire risk reduction out of the electric bill and putting it into billionaires income tax are also really good ones

This was classically true, but the fact that it’s a fleet vehicle economy standard means you can have something inefficient, and sell it in the other states, while selling EVs in California. So you’re doing two different vehicle models for different parts of the country, but achieving the required efficiency standard.

Kinda sorta; because it’s a fleet average, it means that EVs will be marketed in the states following the California standard, but not the rest of the country.

It’s not new, but the spending by the richest has gotten to be a much much larger fraction of the total in recent years

This lets them alter the rules of society so that things aren’t just a little tilted in their favor, but are enormously so.

This is California, so likely forever

Because the competitive process is about credibly promising to produce new knowledge, not about direct immediate application. And when you do that, something really useful is created every so often. You cant do the kind of directed study that produces immediate application without the basic knowledge of how things work. So we have had a system where the federal government funds basic knowledge creation and private enterprise does the directed work for profit when it becomes clear that it’s plausible.

Mostly not; they were awarded through competitive process. It’s remarkably hard to get something frivolous through that.

What does happen a lot is that basic science isn’t immediately impactful but has a modest chance of producing something really useful. For example the GLP-1 drugs were developed as a result of a study into gila monster venom. Nobody is going to say “gila monster venom is useful” but the basic research into how gila monsters regulate appetite turned out to be very meaningful.

There is no war, so just crimes

You don’t have to imagine — that’s exactly what happened

This appears to be where the image was published

They don’t even need to modify the weapons; just shoot at peoples heads with weapons not meant for that

A huge amount of extra CO₂ showed up. We don’t have a definitive answer as to where from.

Titles are a problem; they’re all that almost everybody sees — click-through rates to articles are around 2.5% of the headline view rates. I try to increase that by using gift links and archived copies of articles; but that has a fairly limited impact on peoples’ willingness to click in the first place.

Actually understanding means doing more than reading the headline, and that makes it very hard to get information across.

One which doesn’t require professional installation has real potential to cut the cost of solar by making it about who can sell a good-enough panel the most cheaply. That hasn’t happened so far in the US, and means that rooftop solar is something like 4x the price it is in other countries.

I think they require the disconnect to be built into the panel, but not 100% sure

Yes, but they don’t scale to anything like the amount of CO2 people are adding to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. In practice, this means having to phase out fossil fuels faster