The fascist American Christian nationalists who support Israel's actions in Gaza because they believe it will result in the fruition of their genocidal apocalypse prophecies might not be doing so because they are committed to fighting antisemitism or defending Jewish lives.

We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.

TWwashingtonpost.comApr 22, 2024 3:02pm

California and its grid operator are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.

As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.

Amazing to watch, as the focus shifts in to college students protesting an ongoing genocide, that the genocide itself vanishes from the frame - and suddenly the protests become elevated to "clear and present danger"

Also, anxiety and ADHD are highly correlated, which is obvious to anyone with ADHD who’s had a lot of awful experiences with “constantly messing things up without realizing you’re doing it, leading you to a life of wondering at all times if you’re doing something horribly wrong.”

It is very hard to relax if you’ve spent a lot of your life constantly re-learning the message of “at any time, you will likely be confronted with news that your horrible ADHD brain forgot to do something incredibly important, and now everyone is mad at you.”

FTL: Faster Than Light

that “you’d succeed if you just cared and tried harder” line has done a whole lot of damage to ADHD people, I tell you what

Periodic reminder: these violent mass arrests almost always result in most charges being thrown out & expensive lawsuits. Police do them anyway because in the meantime they do succeed in slowing down movements, that now have to deal with trauma, injury, legal fees, jail support campaigns, smears etc

The issue is mostly transmission being impossible between most of Texas and the rest of the grid due to Texas refusing to link up with the other major interconnects for “Regulatory Reasons”. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_I...

A large portion of modern news is “We have eliminated scarcity and can provide for everyone. This is bad because the profits go down”

TWwashingtonpost.comApr 22, 2024 3:02pm

California and its grid operator are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.

As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.