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  1. On 7/6/2022 at 9:30 AM, Jive Turkey said:

    Dems need to run a candidate who will just go scorched earth and mercilessly rag on Abbott, Cruz, Cornyn, Danny Goeb, Paxton, and the whole lot of them.  Just come out and say, "Listen, I know I can't win.  These clowns have an R by their names, so they're safe in Texas.  But let me tell you why each one of them is a piece of shit."  And just do that for a year.  Shit, I'd hire Jeffrey Ross and his team of writers to give me material.  Just roast the fuck out of these douches.  At least have something good come out of this.  Otherwise, it's just people like Wendy Davis and Beto trying to run serious campaigns, only to get spanked.

    why don't you do it, @Jive Turkey ?

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  2. Would swim at aquatic park in SF bay when I was young and athletic.   It is tradition, once you get in the water, to piss yourself.   It is remarkably pleasant as it combats the 50deg water, but, still, you are swimming in a wetsuit full of your own piss.

  3. 2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    Battery backup shouldn't be looked at from a purely financial perspective. Generally, it isn't going to pay for itself directly. It is more like insurance for power outages. That said, in some situations in can make financial sense. 1) if you don't have access to net metering, 2) you have a time of use plan and a battery allows you to shift your demand to significantly lower rates, and 3) below:

    In California right now Tesla just introduced its virtual power plant program which takes advantage of another program by PG&E for lowering demand during high demand periods. The owners basically get paid $2.00 per kWh that they can reduce from their average usage during these events. Normally, only big businesses that use a lot of power get to take advantage of this program, but since Tesla can control all the power walls that sign up, those individuals can participate too. It is actually a really cool program that seems like it is win-win. Utility can get demand lowered during certain periods when supply is scarce and energy is expensive and power wall owners get well compensated. I assume Tesla is getting something out of the deal, but it can't be much as the rates sent to power wall owners appears to be in line with what other businesses get. 

    At $2 a kWh, a Tesla power wall would roughly pay for itself within 360 cycles of the battery, or about a tenth of its expected usage during its 10 year warrantied lifespan. That's damn return on investment.  

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/tesla-cleverly-bundling-its-battery-users-to-reduce-grid-demand/

     

    this is all true.  if you don't think that the economics of solar make sense, you just do not understand it.   

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