Wind turbines like solar and BESSs are inverter-based resources (IBRs), so any of them can curtail quickly.

I’m glad you responded to them point by point. So many myths, fictions, and bigoted beliefs wrapped up as valid opinion.

Solar/wind + storage is the way forward, as the latest IPCC report showed.

is a vastly inferior solution

How so?

local grid scale solutions

Which ones?

there is essentially 0 infrastructure designed to handle said batteries

If we’re talking residential scale, people already have the infrastructure: it’s the existing wiring inside their household. If we’re talking Commercial & Industrial (C&I) scale, it’s often the same answer. If we’re talking utility scale, oftentimes battery developers get quoted grid improvement costs from the utility and the developer has to pay those costs in order to connect to the grid. You act like the grid can’t change, and there isn’t any money lying around to make improvements, when in reality there are a lot of investors in BESS because of the high ROI.

they wear out quite quickly at home scales

This is true at any scale, resi, C&I, or utility, but batteries are modular and you can augment your capacity over time to make up for degradation.

Elon popularized them with his “powerwall” bullshit entirely to pump the stock value of Tesla’s battery plant

There are more manufacturers than just Tesla in the battery space, many of which who would benefit if the Powerwall failed or lost market share. Even if Tesla popularized them, their decline due to their idiotic, fascist CEO will mean that the existing demand will just look elsewhere for the same product, not exit the market entirely.

Batteries in the walls are useful in niches

In my opinion, every household could benefit from home battery storage just as much as people benefit from gas generators. They have widespread, not niche, appeal. The issue with low penetration in my opinion is lack of knowledge in both policymakers and customers.

the current technology which uses lipo/lion/lifepo4 chemistries is inherently flawed

While batteries do start to degrade the moment they leave the factory, the fact they have flaws doesn’t mean they aren’t still useful. You’re using the argument that the perfect is the only solution to the imperfect, when that shortsightedness gets in the way of progress.

route to both dead linemen

BESS failures have been falling and bottoming out over the last few years while deployment has skyrocketed. Seems like you’re telling a fiction.

massive amounts of E-waste

Recycling is projected to increase, especially as more and more battery installations reach End of Life (EOL), where as much as 60-80% of cobalt and lithium could be sourced from urban as opposed to virgin mines in the next 5-15 years. There is a sizable market opportunity for recycling to take off so long as good policy paves the way.

as it stands, it’s really bad right now.

Sure, let’s throw away one of humanity’s better solutions to the climate crisis since it’s bad now. It’s not like it could get better in the future. Again, such a show of shortsightedness.

It’s not like we can add some kind of magic automatic residential cutoff system

Of course we can. They’re called Microgrid Interconnection Devices (MIDs).

that would just make it worse

Microgrids that can disconnect from the utility at appropriate times may in fact make it better. If homeowners responded to utility alerts of high demand and opted to disconnect from the grid during those times while still having power, that would just make grid operators and home owners happier.

residential distribution is already the problem!

Microgrids are the solution!

tho home batteries are largely elon propaganda…

While residential BESSs are largely Tesla based, they are absolutely key in the energy transition from fossil- to renewables-based power sources.

they only contribute to the above issue, not solve it.

How?

There are ways of addressing it, but they’re complicated and unglamorous.

Which ways?

Thanks for compiling this so I can reference it later if Firefox ever becomes an issue

Both sides are bad. And by that I mean Democrats never represent the Left while routinely allowing the Right to exert their selfishness and greed. They are controlled opposition to frame American politics as a binary, when in reality an entire half of the political spectrum could be represented to widespread approval

If it’s a straight line from Nixon to Trump as you say, then why claim Republicans are environmentalists with Nixon as your example?

He said straight line THROUGH Nixon and Trump, not straight line TO Nixon and Trump.

The former implies distinct and self-evident political differences, whereas the latter implies political evolution from one into the other where both politicians have a common set of political similarities.

I can’t help but think at this point that we’re reaching comprehension issues…

You say “it’s too long ago when Republicans were different” isn’t a valid argument.

He didn’t say that. You did.

He pointed out your hypocrisy when you said that stating the fact that Nixon created the EPA must mean he’s a Republican (and a MAGAt one at that), but then turned heel and said that any politicians from 50 years ago don’t matter (likely because the political landscape then is not the same as the political landscape now, which is reasonably true - he makes this same point by saying 1860 Republicans are not the same as 1960 Republicans or 2025 Republicans).

You stated he’s a Republican, then dissolved your own claim by saying support for past Republicans doesn’t matter. You’ve closed your own logic loop.

Why can’t stating facts just be that: stating facts.

Instead, people have to insert imaginations of their interlocutor’s position so they can try to dish an “own” before asking them for clarification first.

And we wonder why discourse is broken in today’s age

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’re not offering any solutions. Makes you look like a troll that acts in bad faith.

If you care enough to want people to listen to you, perhaps change your approach.

He rolled over and let the DNC fuck him

How so?

T-Mobile supports these bands:

• 5G: n2/41/71/258/260/261

• 5G,ER: n25

• 4GLTE: B4/5/12/71

• 4GLTE,ER: B25/66

• 2G,GSM: B2

Fairphone 5 supports these bands:

• 5G: n1/2/3/5/7/8/20/28/38/41/48/71/77/78

• 5G,ER: n66

• 4GLTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/20/28/32/38/40/41/42/48/71

• 4GLTE,ER: B66

It looks like the Fairphone 5 covers T-Mobile’s 5G Frequency Band 1 frequencies (bold), but Frequency Band 2 is not covered (italic).

Regarding 4G, the Fairphone 5 covers all LTE networks (bold) except for extended range band B25 (italics).

it doesn’t support US bands for TMobile

It covers some, but not all.

another embarrassing false narrative by the Dems.

Rittenhouse got due process, as much as I and many others regret the jury’s verdict.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia got no due process, so no judge nor jury got to cast a verdict on the Trump Administration’s claims. Instead, Trump acted as judge, jury, and executioner by sending Garcia to El Salvador when we knew he obtained a withholding of removal specifically for that country in 2019.

Even if the narratives were false, in Garcia’s case, Trump is removing your rights. That alone should be enough to pay attention and disapprove of Trump’s actions.

he was MS13

He was not. He immigrated to the US without proper documentation in 2011 at the age of 16 to escape gangs in El Salvador. Why would you try to escape gangs if you were part of one?

a duel citizen

He was not a dual citizen. Garcia has citizenship in El Salvador, but received a withholding of removal status in the US, an alternative to asylum. He was a legal resident of the US, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

he was not MS13

This is true.

that doesn’t disprove he was MS13

No evidence was presented in immigration court that Garcia was part of MS-13. Instead, hearsay from a police officer (who later was found to supply confidential information to an escort, breaking his oath as a cop) and a anonymous informant (who said Garcia was in a NYC MS-13 gang, when Garcia lived in Maryland, not NYC) were deemed good enough for the immigration court. Neither the police officer nor informant were allowed to be cross-examined at the time, so we have no idea if these are lies or not. The judge didn’t allow it.

it is on the judge to show sufficient evidence for their ruling.

Do you mean it is on the lawyers accusing Garcia to show sufficient evidence? The judge doesn’t show evidence in a trial… They rule on the evidence…

does call into question the rest of his judgement about him being MS13

As it should. The entire thing was a sham.

no person would apply only to US citizens?

This sentence does not make any sense.

Kilmar being a duel citizen

Again, Garcia was not a dual citizen. He was a legal resident of the US as afforded by a withholding of removal verdict, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

Please for the love of Truth educate yourself before speaking nonsense on the internet. You literally have Chrome or Firefox at your fingertips.

Do nothing, win!

I mean, you’re right that Republicans taking away people’s rights should be news. It should be the topmost article on a newspaper.

Right under that though should be the news about how the supposed opposition party caved in to the Republicans by agreeing and voting in favor, thereby increasing the Republicans’ effective party size in the House.

Democratic representatives not representing their constituents should be news, but of course that news is as old as printing itself, much longer.

The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.

Irrelevant to this conversation.

Persons faced with an unconstitutional licensing law which purports to require a license as a prerequisite to exercise of right… may ignore the law and engage with impunity in exercise of such right.

By this logic, voter registration isn’t in the constitution, so you might be able to make the argument that it violates the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments. Again, by this logic, regardless of if people have proper voting registration or any voting registration at all, they should still be able to vote anyways. The 4 Democrats mentioned in the above article pass a law against the above.

The state cannot diminish the rights of the people.

Tell that to the Republicans that introduced the above bill.

there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of constitutional rights

What about the right to protest of UCLA students last April being violated because of false claims of anti-semitism, or the right to protest of Columbia students last March because of similar false claims? Did the US care about imposing sanctions or penalties on those people, or did they just detain and deport them instead?

a person cannot be compelled “to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.”

Again, tell that to Republicans that introduced the above bill.

The majority of the population has departed from reality.

According to Ballotpedia, ~63.9% of the eligible US voting population (older than 18) turned out to vote, or ~155 mn people. This means ~36.1% didn’t turn out, or ~88 mn people out of the ~243 mn total population. In 2020, the turnout rate was ~66.6% or ~158 mn, meaning ~33.4% or ~79 mn didn’t vote out of the ~238 mn total population.

According again to Ballotpedia, ~77 mn voted R in 2024 (~49.8% of the voting population or ~31.8% of the total population), ~75 mn voted D (~48.3% of the voting population or ~30.8% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (~1.9% of the voting population or 1.2% of the total population).

In 2020, ~81 mn voted D (~51.3% of the voting population or ~34.2% of the total population), ~74 mn voted R (~46.9% of the voting population or ~31.2% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (1.8% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total population).

You say majority, but clearly less than a third of adults in 2024 voted R.

I don’t think we can say why the other ~88 million didn’t vote. Sure, maybe some of them share a reality that diverges from the rest of the world. But we can speculate some other reasons too: maybe they were too apathetic because their party ran on issues not necessarily aligned to the views of their own, maybe they had to go to work to earn a paycheck, maybe they were turned away from the ballot box, maybe Joe Biden’s approval ratings tanked and upon dropping out of the race, many people on election day still thought he was running, maybe Kamala didn’t diverge enough away from Biden (or Republicans) to make a meaningful difference in voters’ eyes, and maybe some of them didn’t think women should be in office, with gender inequality still a prescient issue.

I liked Tim Walz’s analogy in response to the Democrats’ performance in 2024:

If a teacher teaches a subject, quizzes their class afterwards, and finds that less 100% of the class pass, the fault for that performance doesn’t lie with the kids. The fault lies with the teacher. The teacher needs to teach concepts in multiple ways using different pedagogical methods to activate as many kids as possible.

Politicians are the same for me. If people aren’t voting for you, a politician needs to speak to (and sometimes educate) the public in more ways than just one - and do so effectively.

Democrats dropped the ball this year. It still seems like they’re dropping the ball in Congress. We’ll see what the party does. I’d recommend they look to the progressive caucus with Bernie Sanders and AOC for the answer.

Ugh you’ve just given me a new Deck project!

Hell yeah it does!

Even if he had gone all in on manufacturing, it’s not like a supply network of industrial goods can be built in a day. Hell, it’s hard to build that in a 4-year term. Trump is virtue signalling while at the same time jeopardizing any chance America had of reshoring.

It’s honestly infuriating me how big projects needed to improve our infrastructure take years and years to complete, when from one administration to the next, those same projects can be cancelled.

It takes multiple presidencies to build something good, and it takes one to tear it all down.

I see now the benefits of China’s 5 year plans with how well organized they can control their economy.