I figure that emoji is already banned on government computers. They went so far as to ban the spoon emoji because people were using it to respond to the Elon Musk “Fork in the Road” attempt to get people to resign

The problem with “from water” is that it takes as much energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water as you get back by oxidizing the hydrogen to produce water. You can’t use water as a useful way to store hydrogen for energy because of that.

There’s a protest going on right now, including several Congressional Democrats.

We never had the support in congress to pass carbon pricing, which is why the Inflation Reduction Act was structured the way it was.

Basically, Tesla has a bunch of private chargers, and having a public charging network makes it easier for competitors

There are unfortunately still a lot of Americans who have no idea what Project 2025 is.

Ken Martin won the election

He tends to say the right kind of things, but thats not the same as being in a position to act and doing so.

He is not running.

They’ve been pressuring Democrats all along. This isn’t their first action, and it won’t be the last.

Chaparral and grasslands (what that area has) regrow pretty quickly. This isn’t problem of fuel accumulating over decades as has happened in the Sierras. You’d need to be removing vegetation every year, which would also kill off the native plants.

Yes, there’s a history of lower-intensity fire, of the sort which doesn’t threaten structures at scale.

These are places that took relatively minor damage from lower-intensity fires in past years. A lot of places that burned are well into town.

There is some amount of moving people out of the wildland-urban interface that makes sense, but we also need to act by:

• Going ahead with building codes which make buildings more resistant to wind-blown embers from fires which might be a mile or more away
• Ending the use of fossil fuels, so we don’t make the situation worse
• Actively managing vegetation to prevent fuel accumulation where this makes sense.

That’s the thing — it costs the power company less to deploy them than to run their existing system. Even if they feel like charging you more, and have convinced regulators to let them do so.

It’s more that you can’t rely on a single press release or study to reach a definitive conclusion about complex systems. You can get a sense that there’s risk of major problems, but do so without concluding that we’re going to see Doomsday Next Tuesday with absolute certainty.

And those lower prices result in…burning more

Because we don’t have the kind organizing that sparks riots. We have a bunch of nonviolent civil disobedience instead.

Meanwhile, the Republican plan is to get rid of the subsidies for nuclear to give tax cuts to billionaires:

Repeal Title I of IRA ( Excluding: 45Q Carbon Sequestration, 45U Nuclear Power, 45Z Clean Fuels, and EV Tax Credit)

$404.7 billion in 10-year savings

VIABILITY: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW

• Reducing 45Q, 45U, and 45Z would streamline and reduce government intervention in the energy industry that props up the green energy sector and distorts market competition .

He’s down to backing out of stuff from the LBJ era

That depends a fair bit on how corporate networks are set up. It’s very easy to have a central authentication server that the base station can’t reach anymore, so nobody can connect to the corporate wifi.