I didn’t notice when I took the picture, but that’s an electric light with candles as backup! Maybe it’s something you’d want if you’re having frequent power failures!
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I've read of ways of trying to cheaply get good assessments of the value of land (or other property), but I had never before seen this idea of using the tax to buy some of the properties at their assessed value. I really like it, especially for patents, where folks aren't gonna be as sentimental.
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Did you know men and women had different densities of fingerprint ridges? I certainly didn't!
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I included a thread about Fusion power breakthroughs yesterday, it's already out of date! A major highlight was that someone reached 70% of breakeven, and now we're at 100%! Still generates mostly neutrons though, so that's an issue.
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This is an excerpt from an extremely long article about VaccinateCA that I have not personally read in full. I have, however, read the other excerpts Tim screenshotted, and they were equally hot stuff.
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That switch between coal and natural gas is a good sign, coal pollutes a lot more, but even better, the newest estimates expect that Renewables will actually grow even faster over the next decade than the last: energy shortage from the war in Ukraine has spooked everyone into moving even faster.
Threads
• Thread arguing that blocking fossil fuel projects has a net bad impact. Summarized by Yglesias: "like imposing a small, regressive carbon tax and allocating the proceeds to fossil fuel incumbents"