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cwal37

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About cwal37

I'm into energy and the environment.

Strategy/Founder @ gridstatus.io

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    The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI. The design elements pretty clearly mark them as such (and it's even more obvious…

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    Comment #49225181

    *utility-scale solar, not solar overall

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    Comment #49156059

    The solution to pollution is dilution was a philosophy prior to modern environmental protection laws, which were a reaction to the fact that we were absolutely destroying all kinds…

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    Comment #48741716

    Not mentioned, but later on a gas turbine was built on site with some of the existing transmission infrastructure, and there’s also the Cross Sound Cable there, coming over from Ne…

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    Comment #48198856

    The classic pre-EPA slogan comes to mind: "the solution to pollution is dilution".

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    Comment #47937277

    What did Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have to say about student loan forgiveness? Who not only fights tooth and nail against healthcare improvements but actively took…

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    Comment #47713610

    Maybe a good start if you're a specific flavor of person, but it would be pretty amazing to claim it's an objective observer of "freedom" when the Freedom Index is a John Birch Soc…

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    Comment #47495189

    "ideological subsidies" for this administration means any policy supporting non-thermal and non-battery (to a lesser extent, although their lobby has pretty successfully extracted …

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    Comment #47494339

    You could go to the source and see[1]. > TotalEnergies has committed to invest approximately $1 billion—the value of its renounced offshore wind leases—in oil and natural gas and L…

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    Comment #47494095

    The feds have dropped their attempts to stop those from ongoing construction for now, but only one of those projects is complete. CVOW is supposed to flow first power this month, b…

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    Comment #47460733

    Per the piece, they only began to step away from Delve once they realized they couldn't close the deals they wanted and their hand was forced by outside asks. And then also it took…

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    Comment #47459446

    Delve seems clearly scummy, but dear god the author's company was also engaging in fraud with their own customers and just hoping to skate by. "The trouble starts when you look at …

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    Comment #47075098

    I will have to let my wife and many folks she worked with who were illegally terminated, then brought back into uncertain limbo and so on throughout the year that someone on the in…

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    Comment #47057989

    LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better…

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    Comment #46878821

    > As someone who generally stays out of politics, I didn’t know much about the incoming administration’s stance towards tariffs, though I don’t think anyone could have predicted su…

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    Comment #46546082

    That's not what that image means at all. If you look closely, you'll even see 3 additional colors, plus white, from the 4 I'm guessing you identified. Those are ERCOT load zones, a…

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    Comment #46490906

    That's cool to see, obiously Fermi has had them as someone else mentioned. I grew up in Kane County, in the 90s it was the edge of the suburban-rural interface of Chicagoland (used…

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    Comment #46445726

    Yup, was just dead for me and stayed dead, so I went and grabbed an archived link. Don’t recall precisely how it was dead, but I assumed via traffic.

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    Comment #46438729

    Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251230214339/https://vptdigita...

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    Comment #46097676

    Despite the massive PPAs that have already been signed on a chunk of the plant’s planned output I also find it very hard to believe.