Recent content by rays427

You mean those rapid natural climate changes?

As we add more solar and move to electric heating and electric cars the capacity of the grid will be challenged during the night and winter when solar output is low or non existent. PG&E has already started changing their time of use rate structure because of the addition of solar to their...

A 100% wealth tax on all US billionaires you would get $4 trillion or less than the $4.15 trillion Biden stimulus and Jobs act.

What do you think would happen if the oil companies just stopped selling their products? Unlike smoking society would completely shut down.

My 70 Kwh per day in the winter is with propane heating and one electric water heater. I have changed almost all lights to LED. If we convert to electric heating it would be much worse.

My solar averages around 58 kwh per day during the peak summer month and less than 7 kwh per day during the minimum winter month. My peak use is in winter of about 70kwh per day. Peak daily use in the summer is less. So how would I be able to cut the cord. The cost of 2 powerwalls would be about...

I was interested in using the car as battery backup using Ossiaco because it appeared it would be cheaper than buying 2 powerwalls. I could not justify 2 powerwalls at about $20,000 especially since my solar puts out almost no power during the winter. How do you folks use the powerwalls to...

So the idea is to pay folks that can't afford kids money so they will have more kids. I'm sure this will work great.

Most of these subsidies are similar to what other industries receive. So it says they get $20 billion per year of these subsidies in the US but on the other hand the federal fuel taxes raised $36.4 billion in fuel taxes in 2016. Since most states have higher fuel tax rates the overall tax is...

I agree we spend too much on the military but what in the heck are the kickbacks to the oil industry? You do understand that the oil industry in general earns less profit margins than most other industries. Right now they have negative returns. I guess the kickbacks you are talking about are the...

The government giving money works great until you run out of other peoples money. Forget corporations? So I guess in your mind we would be better off by just eliminating corporations at let the government run everything? I'm sure that would work well.

So what will Amazon's $10 billion do?? Seems this dwarfs everything the fossil fuel industry spends. By the way there are several liberal folks like Tom Steyer that have been outspend the oil industry. Same as the Democrats tend to outspend the Republicans.

For Exxon profit you picked a year of maximum profit. If you look at their profit over the years you will see it varies considerably. For the last several years it has been minimal and currently it's negative. This is the case for all oil companies (boom and bust). If you look at profit margins...

US political support, are you kidding. There are currently around 50 nuclear plants being built and only 2 are in the US. So other countries can build them economically but the US can't? The reason we are not building more nuclear plants is pressure from environmental groups including excess...

What do you think would happen if the fossil fuel industry was shut down? I guess it might work since it would only shut down the US companies and countries like Russia, Venezuela and and those in the middle east could still provide the needed oil. It would greatly raise the price but I guess...