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  • They certainly should work at the power level. My utility is ~36% renewable in their power mix right now, but I pay for 100% and that extra money causes them to go out and buy extra renewables for the remaining 64% of my power. I’m not under any illusion that on a cold, still winter night that my power isn’t coming from coal base load - but I have high confidence that they really are buying that extra power, and that in turn creates more demand for solar generation.

    My employer does something similar, we buy the RECs from something like a third of the output of a local solar farm (under contract) and then also buy dirty power from the utility. That should ultimately wash out.

    Though what I can’t figure out is how that solar power is actually accounted for when it hits the grid. It’s been severed from the renewable energy credits (that we bought) so presumably it must not count as a non-carbon power source when it enters the grid, but I can’t find a category for “non-green solar power” on any of the utility reports. Anyone know where it goes?











  • Plus having the government as a customer is very different from receiving subsidies from the government. SpaceX certainly has got some r&d funds from nasa, but on the whole most of their “government funding” comes in the form of contracts that they won on merit.

    Tesla’s a bit different, but consider that the government intended to spend a bunch of subsidize the rollout of electric cars and I’d argue that they got what they paid for. Had it not been for Tesla moving aggressively into that space I don’t think we’ve have nearly as many viable electric cars at this point. Certainly it’s more of a subsidy to it was to achieve a specific policy goal and that’s really not quite the same as (for example) when we specifically bail out a company with taxpayer funds because they are at risk of failure.






  • The government of Russia ≠ the people of Russia. Men are just a gender. There is no government of men. When you say “men are the problem”, you are talking about individual men and men as a whole.

    Obviously you are technically correct, but I still think many feminists use “men” as a shorthand for the broader male-dominated system. If I say “I love the way women smell” I really don’t need to clarify that I probably don’t mean all women in all situations, it’s kinda obvious.

    Where is the outrage over any of the injustices that men face

    That’s a logical fallacy. There probably should be more outrage about those things, but that doesn’t change the initial situation.


  • I think you are conflating men as a group with men as individuals. I think Russia is terrible, but I’ve met many lovely Russian people.

    While I can’t speak for feminists, I think when they say “men are the problem” that’s shorthand for a system that generally pays men more, expects them to take on less domestic responsibilities, allows them to vote away women’s rights, and all of the other longstanding injustices.