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Comment · 2 days ago
How is this different from Ivanpah?
Comment · 1 month ago
Whatever happened to journalists getting both sides of the story?
Comment · 1 year ago
Did you thank China for doing the hard work of scaling?
Comment · 1 year ago
In America, all the gates (I have been to) subject you to constant noise pollution in the form of announcements over the public address system.
Comment · 2 years ago
Capital cost of these plants is significant, which is why most of them run 24 hours per day. If you only run them 8 hours per day, you triple the capital cost.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a nothing story. Court cases have many checkpoints along the way and this case has passed a very minor checkpoint that is almost always passed. The real meat is yet to come.
Comment · 3 years ago
When sources were inherently dispatchable, like coal/oil/gas, reliability was free. Markets have not been updated to reflect the value of reliability. It may be just an oversight of slow moving regulators. Or it may be intentional to allow the growth of unreliable wind and solar without making them bear their own cost of unreliability.
Comment · 3 years ago
It addresses reliability by shedding the customers who don't pay a premium for reliability first. Most of the time, that can solve the problem. It is, as you say, imperfect because it doesn't allow that premium to be used to fund investment in reliable generation.
Comment · 3 years ago
Public transit only makes sense in urban areas. Urban areas tend to have high rates of crime. This is one of the driving factors behind the popularity of personal transportation and suburban schools.
Comment · 3 years ago
How did he get into her home?
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm also an Omada fan. I just have two APs right now but I love controlling them from a single dashboard and look forward to adding their ER605 router so I can put my security cameras on a separate VLAN.
Comment · 3 years ago
Employee compensation is an expense, not revenue or profit.
Comment · 3 years ago
You may be able to afford a night time battery (several hours of power) but there's no way you can afford a winter battery (several months of power).
Comment · 7 years ago
In a previous article, he renamed the gas generator on the Merlin and F-1 rocket engines a "preburner" and now everyone is copying him.