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But the cameras that the law enforcement officers canvas in the area aren't centrally aggregated and tagged with meta data such that they can be queried at scale.

Anyone have insights on V2G or V2H capabilities? If we can have open standards to allow my car to interoperate with my home batteries (Franklin, Enphase, Tesla Powerwall or others)…

+1 I considered "(is supposed to)" preceding "protect"

The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy, public trial in criminal prosecutions, protecting defendants from excessive, prejudicial delays between indictment or arrest a…

Due process under the US Constitution protects everyone in the US, not just US citizens.

If you can't make heads or tails of the videos, then how is it clear to you he wasn't merely filming?

Two cities that recently asked a automated license plate reader (ALPR) company to deactivate their cameras say they have discovered that some devices remained operative long after …

While I too find it distasteful and distracting, the inclination to expunge politics from conversation may have played a role in getting us (at least in the US) where we are: 1) wh…

Price signals. One approach would be a revenue-neutral carbon tax on extraction of sequestered carbon. And border carbon taxes for imports from countries who don't also have an int…

This is because PG&E retail is about 2.5x the national average. Also, worth noting in the event the conclusions are extrapolated to diesel over the road transportation: train diese…

> Most of the energy used accelerating is recovered at the next stop, so the fast acceleration does not consume much energy. Not "most," but a lot. From the article: > regenerative…

Though to become a law, the president would need to sign it.

I only know the western US. And my experience is consistant with your own -- specialized applications. They would love to reconductor the other circuits. In the US, the utilities m…

Increased weight makes reconductoring much more difficult as the structures are designed to carry specific weight. Increased size can also impact structure loading from ice or wind…

You may be referring to either 1) the real-time line ratings (directionally required by FERC order 881, or 2) technology like the "SmartValve" from Smart Wires which dynamically ad…

As the new conductors will have lower impedance, some breakers may need to be replaced to interrupt higher fault current. Otherwise, it's likely the only substation equipment needi…

The algae, forest, and other capture projects do not appear to sequester, on a geologic time scale, the atmospheric carbon. Even the sequestering of carbon through enhanced oil rec…

I do not believe that this is accurate. California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) have had their profit decoupled from revenue since 1981. [0] The Federal Energy Regulatory Commis…

It's not severed. Still part of the real property and owned fee simple, but subject to use restrictions.

The electrical grid has many different resources that can be constrained. For example, the entire grid may not have adequate supply to meet demand, a transmission line may not have…

PG&E is an investor-owned regulated monopoly. Other utilities in California are publicly owned (either government, or non-profit. For example, LADWP, SMUD, Palo Alto, Turlock and m…

As an industry, the term "power plant" is something that generates power (electric energy). However, much of the DER opportunity is not generation, but load. Which is why the term …

The electrical grid is designed to cover the highest load (typically the hottest hour of the year; A/C drives peak load). Most of the grid is a fixed cost. The transmission lines, …