Re: Yes, solar photovoltaic is now the Way to Go. Should going off of the grid be illegal?
Author: BOB2-
Date: 02-03-2025 - 09:11
Commenter Wrote:
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> Even my wimpy 11 panels on the roof produces a
> surplus of over a MW-hr per year after powering my
> all electric house.
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> It helps to have a totally insulated house in
> coastal California.
My friend in Texas told me that so many folks in his part of Texas are so sick of the overpriced and unreliable Texas electric utilities, that many folks he knows are "going off of the grid". Part of this is that the state allowed Texas utilities to impose and "Enron" style peak pricing scheme, that sends consumer bills through the roof, when the utilities themselves turn off the power plants and reduce supply. Folks going "off of the grid" is such a threat, that the Texas monopoly utilities are trying to lobby the Texas State Legislature with campaign contributions (aka legal "bribes") to make "going off of the grid" in Texas illegal.
Monopolies when threatened with competition, seem to love to have the "gubmint" protect their monopoly over consumers from actual free market capitalist competition.
How would this impact trains?
In theory, coal train movements to Texas would benefit from restricting free market competition, if Texas were to make it illegal to generate your own electricity and use it yourself, though.
Meanwhile, speaking of trains in Texas... I had me wondering with these tariff shenanigans, I was watching this morning, if this was part of some sort of short selling scam that was targeting things like CPKC stock. Which went down like a rock and then shot back up like a roller coaster with the weird games this morning.
11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Ivan Paw |
02-01-2025 - 13:33 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Coal dust is a must |
02-01-2025 - 15:06 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Oh My |
02-02-2025 - 07:11 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Wonderer |
02-02-2025 - 07:21 |
6-10, no problem
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Times a changing |
02-02-2025 - 08:44 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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BOB2- energy expert |
02-02-2025 - 02:47 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Navajo Joe |
02-02-2025 - 05:06 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Jean Nipton |
02-02-2025 - 10:30 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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exhaustedbyED |
02-02-2025 - 11:02 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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FUD |
02-02-2025 - 13:51 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Jean Nipton |
02-02-2025 - 14:53 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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Zappo |
02-02-2025 - 16:00 |
Re: 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
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FUD |
02-03-2025 - 08:29 |
Re: Faster, better, cheaper.... And no, this will likely not bring back more coal trains...
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BOB2- |
02-02-2025 - 17:06 |
Yes, solar photovoltaic is now the Way to Go
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Commenter |
02-02-2025 - 19:22 |
Re: Yes, solar photovoltaic is now the Way to Go. Should going off of the grid be illegal? |
BOB2- |
02-03-2025 - 09:11 |
I hope that was the fake Bob2. Because it reads like Helen Keller trying to describe a mountaintop view
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Alamo |
02-03-2025 - 21:33 |
Re: I hope that was the fake Bob2? Meanwhile... Yeah, it's Texas and these attempts have mostly failed.
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BOB2 |
02-04-2025 - 09:30 |
Re: I hope that was the fake Bob2? Meanwhile... Yeah, it's Texas and these attempts have mostly failed.
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FUD |
02-04-2025 - 18:05 |
Consumer electric cost: Lowest is UT 10.91 cents. TX is 29th 15.6 cents. Average is 17.01 cents. CA next to last 32.68 cents
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Alamo |
02-04-2025 - 21:39 |
Re: Consumer electric cost: Lowest is UT 10.91 cents. TX is 29th 15.6 cents. Average is 17.01 cents. CA next to last 32.68 cents?
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BOB2 |
02-05-2025 - 07:29 |