Yeah, it's the people that think solar is relatively clean and has become cheap that are the problem, not the people that never grew out of oppositional defiance disorder.
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That's convenient. Hopefully they don't use their massive numerical advantage in some sort of scheme to make it not true.
Replacing bad other drivers with good autonomous systems is likely a great trade off for you, even if you are in an autonomous vehicle that is eager to sacrifice you if there is an unavoidable incident.
I guess people do walk into casinos and play games that are legally controlled to have outcomes favoring the casino.
Competing for it is more of a game that has a cost to participate in.
Which doesn't mean I want dramatic management changes, but they are hardly pristine.
Probably be healthy for encouraging development in the right places for people to realize that much of what we consider "natural" was dramatically altered fairly recently. They built the park where I live out of sand in like the last 100 years and no doubt more than a few people would object to improving it because it's natural.
Microcontrollers with persistent memory are not expensive, so something like that would just be horrible design, not something you could even try to justify as a cost reduction.
Obviously a small unreplaceable battery is not a good example for that discussion.
The idea behind the regulation is that it's providing the maximum incentive to bring cheaper electricity to market.
If you try to mandate that high cost producers charge less, they will do what makes sense to control costs and then quit altogether once they are losing money.
Still, seems kind of hard to argue that retail sales are not an offer and direct acceptance of that offer.
Or do you think that US federal investment in solar and battery technology would be bad for the American taxpayer?
There's probably a few lower cost things that I am overlooking, to the tune of netting out a few hundred dollars of savings after however many years they took to pay back.
A well built home with more insulation will, according to physics, lose less heat in any given scenario. So policies that push for things that improve buildings can reduce energy use.
Do you think we have reached peak building efficiency or something?
In the US capacity is likely to go down (dams are expensive and many time old dams are removed instead of being rebuilt).
There are not classified shuttle equivalents launching, not sure what you are talking about there. The X37 has the capability to land, but it is not manned and is tiny compared to the shuttle.