The energy generated by commercial solar installations is then sold, generating income. No one’s expecting parking lot owners to do this out of the goodness of their heart

There are solar generating facilities literally everywhere now. To mount them high enough to park under is a miniscule cost difference. There are also already massive parking lots with covers all over the place. We have probably 5,000+ covered parking spaces at the airport in my city, for example

Costs that have dropped precipitously over the past 20 years

This article is literally about shading the asphalt

Are NeoLibs

Dude…wild misattribution here

There are a lot of words, man. Like way more than you or I even know…there are over 100,000 in the Official Scrabble Dictionary™. Except maybe with the strangest hands, you’ll have a ton of different scoring words available to you, given there are hundreds of two letters words

The article we’re responding to here is a Reuters article that states the facts. You just linked to a poorly written CNN op-ed hosted on Yahoo

This adds an entirely new strategy to the game, because you can try to construct words that add up to the number of spaces you want to go, almost completely eliminating the random chance aspect of monopoly that’s so frustrating.

But then why would anyone land on a property on which they’d have to pay you rent…

From where did you glean that someone thinks you should be rejoicing?

She’d troll the shit out of Trump in a way neither Biden nor Clinton ever did

This is an anecdote that doesn’t hold water if you look search for articles about outages in Florida after hurricanes

No argument from me that what happened in '21 was at least partially avoidable with more effective regulation, but you’re on here talking about this outage in Houston that has absolutely nothing to do with that, because a fucking hurricane knocked down thousands of trees and power lines.

That makes no sense. The Texas grid hasn’t had any issues with balancing electricity supply and demand since the winter storm in '21 that took a bunch of generating facilities offline

Harris is the only candidate who would be able to access all the money the Biden campaign has already. Anyone else would start from scratch

The problem is the convention is happening after the ballot deadline in Ohio, which has historically been waived by the Ohio legislature for both parties, but which has not this year with Republicans in charge. That’s why there was going to get a virtual roll call before the convention to nominate Biden. There needs to be a nominee solidified and nominated before the convention or risk having no Democratic candidate for president on the Ohio ballot

Uhhh…what bailouts are you talking about? What have you done for us exactly?

What happened in Houston here was a hurricane knocking down power lines, not a “grid failure.” The complaint is that it’s taking Centerpoint Energy 48-72 hours longer to restore power than they probably could have if they had more effectively prepared.

It should be noted my utility rates (at my municipal utility, owned by the City of Austin) are really reasonable, well below national averages, so I don’t know how you think I’m being “soaked for every last penny.”

That’s not “the only reason” though? The Texas grid was created in like the 40s…today’s politics really didn’t apply

You’re literally the only person who has had anything productive to say here, so when you say “we,” I’m not sure who you’re referring to. Yes, better grid redundancy would mitigate outages. At the same time, I’d like to see any kind of evidence that Houston has poor grid redundancy compared to any other city of comparable density, or that “profiteering and cost cutting” have played a role.

My previous point stands that ERCOT and the Texas Interconnect being independent has absolutely nothing to do with this

Appreciate you. Outages like this happen all over the country when there are severe weather events, especially hurricanes. Folks on here seem to have a poor grasp of electrical systems and why the power’s out in parts of Houston

wow…