Climate denier science illiteracy is irrelevant.

Lead times for large gas turbines are longer than 3 years now. Projects are now being planned for construction in the early 2030s. Not so simple. Residential customers will suffer (they already have) with high bills as the big data centers continue to pay much lower industrial rates.

The EPA would be the biggest applicable one. If there were "adversarial" foreign investors or equipment suppliers, particularly Chinese ones, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) can get involved, but less than 5% of projects fall under this. Probably more like 1-2%, this generally has only happened when Enercon makes attempts to gain market share.

The wind blows everywhere. The simplest example is that Texas is #1 for wind power in the US, by a lot. The only West Coast state in the top 10 is California at number 8. The middle part of the country still has vast tracts of land with economical wind potential. Wind farms are typically constructed on farmland or ranchland, the corn and the cows don't care a bit. I've seen plenty of farmers even plant right across access roads, although this is probably from laziness more than a planned business practice. The largest projects might physically occupy 50 or so acres within a boundary of 8,000 to 30,000 acres. The argument that somehow this is causing a run on land is pure fiction.

Only if they are unencumbered by patents

If you're tall, the exit rows can be great. If you're not, you should be aware that the seat cushions are almost always thinner and less comfortable compared to other seats. Exit row seats also typically do not recline, or do not recline as much as other seats. Exit row is among the least comfortable seats if you are a normal size person. The row in front of exit row usually has many of the same problems but without the extra leg room.

There's little reason to provide contact information for individuals on a public website. A contact form or general inbox address reduces problems significantly. I work in a business sector where individual reputation matters- where my picture is on the company website. But nobody has their number or email address posted. It's just asking for spam and other problems.

You can always pick a different center for the Mercator projection to illustrate the difference. Try this one: Mercator with massive Africa

It's a little weird Apple chose a worse redesign instead of just steamrolling the problem with money like they always do.

I'm no fan of trump but there's nothing in that controversy that will hurt Trump. Trump has never been a top name in the story. Even if there is damning evidence, which I doubt, he will be dead before anything comes of it.

The lightning is a great work crew truck. The range is plenty for taking a crew from a depot to a job site, and you don't need to bring a generator because the truck can power all the tools and charge cordless batteries. The problem is mainly charging infrastructure, for companies that lease their vehicles and facilities the chargers are an upfront investment at a property they may not even own.

Yes but California residents are asking for net metering, which includes both production + distribution. The utilities are happy to pay residential battery (BESS) producers the same rate they pay the other instantly-dispatachable producers, which can often be, but is not always, (instantly dispatchable production > residential retail price + distribution). Residents want to be paid based on the right side of that equation, but utilities don't want to sign up for the risk or potential undesirable market response of the > sign flipping and being trapped in the wrong payment structure.

In some countries. Russia uses masculine words for ships. I believe Ukraine does the same.

There's also a distinction between crawling everything to feed into the beast, vs a user making a query and the model decides to load the first 20 hits on a web search. To the website the traffic may be the same, but legally you would probably come to a different conclusion if a human was making the original query. However, only the AI service knows the reason for the access and they have no reason to share that with the website, or anyone else.

In Houston the water table is also high and the ground in some areas is just fine sediment. Not very conducive to tunnels and a big reason why basements are uncommon. Some kind of aboveground line along the Hardy toll road probably makes the most sense, but as you say most Houston airport travelers don't go downtown.