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One thing that would really help batteries is permitting reform. The BAAJA reform bill would really help not just the batteries themselves but the transmission lines which are far more difficult to construct thank to an insane system and lots of lawsuits.

Another issue is they’ve lost their credibility going all in on geopolitics (Palestine) and being anti development which makes it impossible to create green energy and denser energy efficient cities

I mean every single major nuclear plant accident is from reactors built in the 1960s. I think we are simply better at building them and it is no longer a question of “when”

It’s easy to pass failing students when you don’t test them. That’s the whole reason it looks good

Way more people will die from climate change because we were forced to rely on oil instead of building out nuclear.

And yet even including Chernobyl nuclear is far safer than oil and gas per kw

It just becomes part of the sale price

We could easily build apartments on the coast in CA and then non multi millionaires might be able to live there. We have decided that only multimillionaires deserve to own a coastal house by restricting zoning in the coast so heavily

For example, the Netherlands are currently pouring cement down their oil derricks to try and prevent a future government from re opening them, over absurdly minor earthquakes, despite the energy crisis.

The DOD keeps extreme control over their supply chain. For many things it requires specific approval to be in the supply chain in the first place

The issue is continuous heatwaves, when you either buy ac or start to die. No passive cooling can help you when the nights stay hot

The US could carpet bomb their enemies like they did in WW2, instead they pursue one of the lowest civilian casualty methods of in the history of the world, and nobody even cares because somehow that’s not good enough

The point is the DoD is telling its suppliers not to use it because the supplier of your supplier is your supplier. That’s what this does

Congress cannot do anything the Supreme Court says they cannot do