Yeah, the charging situation is interesting.

If you charge at home, so much cheaper than gas.

If you can't charge at home, so much more expensive than gas.

Well, sure, but you can say the same thing of so much in automotive tech...

When all those gaskets need to be replaced, when the transmission grinds itself, when the coolant system leaks, when the turbo goes, if the timing belt goes, every few months when you change the oil, etc etc.

Sure, it's a item worthy of being wary of and a good opportunity to improve, but it's not like ICE engines are nice and immune from expensive costs down the line.

You are kinda correct. Some countries have gigantic dummy loads to burn off excess power. Slovakia burns off power when solar panels flood the grid around midday and actually asked that people stop installing more home roof panels since it is not helpful.

Slovakia just stores it on site, just like coal stations store their ash on site. The difference is a few small containers in a hole vs a mountain of ash. It is best to store waste on site, so that the people who understand it can walk past and look at it every day.

What more context do you want? It is simply the true current state of affairs. There are exactly four wind gennies in Slovakia and they will not build more - so about zero percent. Eighty percent of the electricity is nuclear and the rest is hydro. There are two ancient small coal stations which are also about zero percent and these will be decommissioned when another nuke comes online. Meanwhile Germany turned all its nukes off, so they have mainly dirty power and some wind. The lecce rates are public - you can look it up per country.

> "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope." -- General Smedley D. Butler

Equipping both sides is totally normal. The US does this all the time. So do other nations. It has been going on in the mid-east for ages.

If you have not heard the Bob Dylan song "Masters of War" in a while, you should listen to it again.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

However, this has been a consistent pattern that goes back to the 1930s and I wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you corected that to the 1830s. Companies know that you make the most money by selling to both sides.

Piling on, Arizona Corporation Commission races are indeed contentious. They bring out activists that desperately want to turn Arizona into a California clone.

And I doubt the ACC will try to force this datacenter on Chandler. If you wonder how our Democrat Governor thinks of things, she is busy celebrating an "Ag-to-Urban” Groundwater Conservation Approval", just to ensure 825 new homes can be built in Buckeye, which were blocked because metro Phoenix does not have sufficient assurances of water supply for the next 100 years to permit further growth in that city.

It's darned hard to oppose development in Arizona. Too many stakeholders want to make their profits. Even Katie Hobbs will bow to them. Oh, wait, she bows to whoever greases the skids.

That's not even vaguely what I said, so it's unclear if this is some kind of language issue or the result of a disability, but I'm just feeling worse and worse for you. You somehow believe the cold war was about communism?

I'd say Microsoft won that war, and everyone else lost.

Germans pay 38c a kWh for wind and coal power, while Slovaks pay 13c for nuclear and hydro.

Ayup - lots of people speak like three languages and understand five or more.

W0t? Just after I finally managed the get the stupid fish in my ear in the HHGG game, now I don't need it anymore? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fradio4%2Fh...

Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.

Sneak and peak? No the Alpine peaks are down south in Austria.