pdx_flyer

There are already quite a few rapid start gas peakers not only being produced but in-service. Nothing about Boom's stands out as being significantly different.

Grifts really have become mainstream.

My parents live in a small town in Texas and are in the MAGA camp. They came to Portland a couple of years ago to visit and said "oh, it's not like what was on TV"... Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.

Now they are saying I should move based on what they see on Fox News. I'm dumbfounded; Don't you remember what it was like when you were here? It hasn't changed.

Part of it is a small town mentality, the big city is just dangerous. The rest of it is just being spoon fed clips of the same protest footage over and over and over again.

Yep, everything is dry, including the 5,200 park that sits less than a mile from downtown (Forest Park).

Oh, are the homeless the reason the National Guard was called in? I thought it was for the protests. /s

Yes, Portland has a homeless issue. It has had one since I moved here in 2013 (and probably before then). Covid made it worse but the issue is slowly getting better. But again, homelessness isn't what the President and Kristi Noem are talking about.

A bunch of them are vegetation fires. We are very dry here right now, so any thrown cigarette is a risk. We are supposed to get some rain this weekend.

Seeing the videos/photos it was obvious some of them weren't even drones, they were commercial aircraft.

Fair enough. I had a conversation with one utility that was fine with transformers popping (even if preventable) because a popped transformer becomes a capitalizable expense.

Good points.

Have you seen a lot of phase-shifting transformers in the U.S.? In my experience they've mostly been in Europe with a few specialized applications in the States.

I would think a utility would want to reconductor the other circuits otherwise they're leaving benefits on the table right?

The article doesn't say much about it but I am sure there is significant work being done at the transmission substations as well to support the extra capacity.