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Sorry for the delay, I've had sunk with kayak and have some issues with the phone that needs to be urgently replaced.
> Obviously, they cite a lack of money to do this but it's interesting how their customer rates are higher than other companies on the grid.
That's odd, there are no major problems with local powerlines, though they are owned by state. The only issue is building some new last mile connection to new settlements, it's costly and hard to make a request and form the plan.
There are big problems with the in-house powerlines in the mass-built soviet-era apartments, they are mostly using aluminum wires and are not designed for loads more that 2-3kW per apartment, it's not uncommon to trip circuit breakers by simply using teapot and washing machine at the same time.
> It seems likely that the money is not being invested back into the company to save the failing infrastructure.
Wonder why they weren't persecuted for that, the only reason to justify these failures that comes to my mind is that the local laws are over-protecting the landlords that don't let the transmission lines owners to have easy access to the lines to start actually work on fixes.
> I'm pissed that he says this because then people who know no better believe it and dismiss these wildfires as punishment.
I guess, he doesn't have enough power to make an order like that and there are plenty of people with the voice of reason to block it.
I'd not take words of politics about topics like that too seriously anyway.
> The size of these fires are unnatural because of drought and changing climate
Perhaps, but using climate change as an argument for politics seems to be the same sort of... cynism masked as a stupidity?
First of all, energy is vital to the pleasant lifestyle, modern first world citizen spends total average power of ~10kW in the form of food, transportation, heating and air conditioning, handful automation like washing machines, energy expenses for producing some goods etc. There is a fun fact, Ancient Romes patricians had spend the same amount of energy in the form of horse/camel power, slaves labour and inefficient house heating..
I've seen many people that try to use paper packages instead of plastic ones while setting the air conditioner to cool the office violently, though the latter is thousands times more harmful in terms of energy waste.
The second issue is that it takes only a couple of weeks to spread the local carbon dioxide or another gas waste to equally spread world wide. One can shrink it's own carbon footpring, but one cannot stop the race of the fast growing nations like China/India/Brazil/Turkey to reach the same high standards of living. Same applies for relocating the plants to the China/India/Vietnam/Mexico, it's quite cynic from the business owners to claim themselves as green and eco friendly, it's like Hitler would tell that he did nothing wrong as he didn't kill anyone personally.
The third issue is that green energy production is not without it's downsides, even if it doesn't produce carbon emissions. Particularly, I have a master dergee and finished doctorate courses in semiconductors technology that are using for solar cells manufacturing and I have dive deeply in this topic. Solar cells and wind power plants are only two renewable sources of energy that in theory could solely cover all present day energy needs of mankind, but there is much larger problems with them than most people even imagine.
Last, but not the least, people are not cooperative by their nature, for example, the warfare is destructive, maintaining even idle army is extremely expensive but there wasn't found any alternatives over the millenia. There is no real cause for people to change this time, by cause I mean something like massive genetic engineering of human beings or some sort of forcefully surgical implantation of the decent, uniform and pro-cooperative set of knowledge, any attempts to make some sort of new humans with propaganda and classic education is condemned to end like the previous attempts like communism and nazism. Humans are simply a sort of animals and any decent politics should deal with that imperfect nature as is.
> That's such an unfamiliar concept I had to look it up.
Soviet government tried to violently make changes to the lands, particularly, to dry up the swamps to make more agricultural fields. The soil of that former swamps is enriched with the peat, think of mix of sand and compressed dried grass. It sometimes catches the fire from accidental smokers, lightning strikes or sparks from vehicles: https://pozharanet.com/pozhar/vidy-pozharov/torfyanye-pozhary.html
These fires are usually local, but they may pose some danger for the tresspassers, there are not many smoke or light from fire at sunlight, and there are some death accidents with falling into the burning cavities.
> The state does not get power from coal either.
That's not as great achievment as it is advertised. The downside of the coal is that it's ash contains some heavy metals, including naturally radioactive uranium and thorium and their fission products. They may be filtered, though.
Natural gas is not free from carbon dioxide emissions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Combustion
Also, natural gas is not as abundant as coal and it would be exhausted much quicker, it's also more expensive to use.
The real reason behind closing the coal and nuclear power plants and building new gas power plants is that solar and wind power is highly volatile and not matching to the demand. It makes coal power stations with the slow reaction ineffective and pushes nuclear power plants to dangerous unplanned chain reaction manipulations, these types of power plants are progressively incompatible with the power grid demands. Instead of planned generation for a predictable and steady demand one have to constantly monitor the output of wind and solar plants and quickly throttle gas and hydro turbines.
The net results is that there is much higher stress and losses in the transmission lines that needs to randomly throw the power between producers and consumers, higher stocked coal and uranium is replaced with less ctocked natural gas, and the power grid is more prone to catastrophic failures. If you have some knowledge about electricity, think of the synchronization of the alternating currents of all small solar panels, they may watch for the momentary phase of "large" power grid and send the current to the powerline with somewhat shifted phase to push the power to powerline and not the reverse. Also, the solar and wind power stations tries to always push the maximum possible power to make largest possible profit for it's owners.
This scheme have an assumption that there is some large fixed power plant and the solar or wind power is a small addition. Think what will happen if the large power plants would be throttled to not produce excessive power and all small solar and wind power stations would only look at each others? They will build up a race to send the more power that others, the voltage and frequency would rise until they trip some safety barriers and it makes a whole network failure.
The only ways to deal with it either to make every power generating entity directly controlled and synchronized from some center that will make renewables much less profitable, beyond the commercial viability, or to artificially increase the demand to have some large portion of the traditional power plants to drive all small slave power plants in sync. If you are interested in green energy, you've probably encountered the news about negative electricity cost like this: https://www.theagilityeffect.com/en/review/electricity-solar-energy-enables-california-post-negative-prices/
The real reasons to pay to consumers is to extinguish the building up catastrophic runaway of the small solar and wind power plants.
I'm actually a fan of the solar and nuclear power an an only viable in both long-term perspective and scalability for human needs, but it's really dishonest to build the inherently unseparable gas-solar power grid and claim that it's a salvation of the climate changes problems, it's actually a timebomb that will be devastating if there won't be some major advance with reversible fuel cells or long-lasting batteries and the latter topics are more than century old with a very little and theoretically constrained progress. Without these advancements existing solar system would be useless junk if the gas would be exhaust while coal and nuclear-powered counties would last for a century longer...and still pollute the planet with carbon dioxide!
> It's unfortunate, but the virus went out of control in the US so it's really the best option right now.
Well, US doesn't seems to be very popular place for tourists or temporary foreign workers, it has much higher case count per capita than some countries flooded with tourists like Turkey. I believe, the real reason is that there is no way to make some lawful and understandable for people lockdown. No way to simply shut down the privately-owned transportation, or to block people from driving. For example, in Ukraine it's enough to shut down the subway and other state-owned public transportation to pin the vast majority of people to their homes and prevent them from reaching their work or some entertainment places without very good reason.
i don't think there is some way to limit the virus in such an social and politics environment, only to rely on personal safety. My customers from San Jose are working from home since March, so I think those who really want to stay safe have and option to.
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