Search results

Uh oh.... bad news ahead for OH4. https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/forum/main-door-facing-electric-substation-37270.htm

I miss the days when it was okay to attribute someone's success to their talent, commitment, and sacrifice.

I imagine they'll let people default into the highest tier unless they prove their income is lower with a copy of their most recently filed tax return. Probably administered by a third party until they can plug straight into the FTB or IRS "for our convienence" Definitely wouldn't surprise me...

I wish the requirement was still up for debate, but it's already decided. The only thing we're waiting on is for the utility commission to work out the details with the utility companies.

This is old news, but it doesn't seem discussed much when talking about the change in electricity billing starting around 2025. In short, SCE will drop the electricity rate by about 33% and impose a fixed fee based on household income...

The other thing I would add here is many of these highly compensated tech employees receive compensation in the form of (restricted) stock/options as well as large year end bonuses, which are typically predicated on individual and/or division/company performance, not guaranteed (though big tech...

Congrats Calbears, I'm happy to hear this is working out for you and your wife!

Any word on what caused the fire? My money is on homeless people.

I sincerely hope neither Trump nor Biden run for 2024. Politics and policies aside, Biden is barely coherent and half the country has a severe negative emotional reaction to anything attached to the Trump name. It's a no win choice.

A large contributor to inflation is the supply of money in circulation. One of the largest additions to the supply of money comes from our very own federal government's deficit spending. Whether intentional or not, due to the way they accounted for the student loan debt forgiveness...

Whoever pays that price can be confident they top ticked the housing market

After going down the C shot rabbit hole and finding a whole lot of WTAF (and continuing to see new WTAF stuff come out), I don't want to go down the anti-vax rabbit hole out of concern for what's there and how difficult it would be to navigate life through that lens.

Man I was so close to buying this floor plan from the builder in 2020 for like $1,350,000. Stars didn't align though. Would have should have... And yes, I would buy a murder/suicide house for 30% below market as long as there's no remaining evidence (stains, smells, etc).

There's actual research on ESG investing coming out. Turns out lowering the cost of capital for "green firms" does next to nothing to reduce emissions and raising the cost of capital for "brown firms" (aka high carbon emitters) causes them to emit more...

I'm going to file that one away as WTF. $1,000/sqft

Bummer. I'd thought about matching some batteries up with my solar but losing NEM 2.0 would really suck. Do you have a source to confirm that SCE customers lose their existing NEM agreement if they add batteries?

You're forgetting that electricity demand still must be met and that the grid is indifferent about what is generating the power. Even in a hypothetical grid where you can direct power based on the generation source, if you direct solar away from powering homes/businesses towards pumping water...

I've heard the same. The idea is to use excess generation to pump water up a hill into a reservoir and release it when needed for generation. A gravity battery. The pushback is (1A) it's going to disturb nature to build and create emissions in the process, so many environmentalists strongly...

Ya, natural gas sounds preferable to coal and oil when it comes to emissions. It also has the upside of being able to ramp up and down as needed for electricity generation. Can't do that with nuclear in any short amount of time. Wind & solar are at the mercy of the weather. Batteries will...

Eh, your numbers seem really high. I found: 2021 was 35% renewable as a % of in CA generation. 34% as a % of total CA consumption (because CA imports electricity). For reference gas was 50% and 38% respectively...