California: 1. End coal, don't replace with nuclear. Power capacity plummets 2. Buy from neighbors to cover spikes. Neighbors use coal for this 3. Neighbors stop selling during their own spikes-->blackouts in CA 4. "Neighbors must end their coal use"http://archive.is/MZ8A2
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eigenrobot Retweeted Mihoda
long subthread by someone who actually seems to know what he is talking about somewhat countering this hmmmmmmmmmmmmmhttps://twitter.com/Mihoda/status/1295526674587504640?s=19 …
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I am still very curious why I have never lived in a state with rolling blackouts whatsoever if his argument holds but it is somewhat compelling Depends on the extensive vs intensive operating costs of marginal power production I guess Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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maybe when I'm not getting stoned in the evening I end up spending my time imagining up toy economic models of markets I have no familiarity with instead of making increasingly deranged attacks on the english Language fascinating dramatic cognitive shift
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words still gotta go tho
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New Transmission assets and storage would help against this, but new transmission has been limited for standard infrastructure lack of investment reasons and also nimby reasons, and storage has only recently been cheap enough, development takes a while
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Huuuuh, reasonable. Lol polycausality? In MY replies???
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