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It's wild that you're right given that most of the new EV and battery factories are in red states. Just shooting themselves in the foot as usual.
It's Mirror's Edge Catalyst
You know the saying, "death and taxes"? Well, they stopped paying taxes.
It is in the KS constitution as well. I didn't word it properly, but it was protected in section 1 of the KS constitution. The ballot measure in 2022 was to get rid of that constitutional right. That ballot measure failed, maintaining the constitutional right to personal healthcare decisions and abortion access.
*"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is the direct wording from their constitution that has been affirmed several times in the state courts to include abortion access
The fight doesn't end with a ballot measure, in any state. They will keep trying to ban it forever. A similar thing happened in KS. A ballot measure was created to keep healthcare decisions out of the government's hands, which was already in the state constitution.
KS GOP said people needed to vote no and that it was in no way an attack on abortion. It had nothing to do with abortion. It was just about making sure people could get medical care, absolutely nothing would be done to abortion rights. Just let the GOP help you get healthcare, they said.
The ballot measure passed, maintaining abortion rights, and the GOP, in a shocking move, immediately tried to ban abortion...twice...in 2 years.
That and he hopes it will shield the property from current and future fraud investigations against Trump Org. There was a real chance, at the time, that the business's property could be seized by the court and having a grave would give them leverage to stop it.
Maybe a bright side; filling the executive with inept sycophants might slow down project 2025. The reason he struggled to achieve a lot of his bullshit the last time was they didn't have skilled people to navigate the legal system.
Of course, that legal system also made him a king so...all they have to do is make him say whatever they want to do. But maybe, hopefully, they'll spend a lot of time fighting amongst themselves.
Same, red county-district-state. I would hope the same but they won't attribute it to their dear* leader. His Tariffs and GOP policy will fuck them too, but fox and podcasts will tell them it's the deep state Democrats keeping them down. They all were doing the "this is Biden's America" posts in 2020. GOP can do no wrong in their eyes. Used to be child rape was a deal breaker but even that is A-OK now, as long as the Democrats lose.
And they'll only get better with time. I think It'll be a little rocky the next four years in the US. But still, they are great. My house is 100% wind powered and I regret not putting solar on 5 years ago
Great points! Wind and solar are far easier to scale. Their main issue is land use, but when applied properly (with appropriate environmental impact assessments) that's not a major concern on its own, really it's transiting that power to use centers. Dealing with the individual property rights for a transmission line that doesn't benefit the person under it is and has been enough to kill energy projects.
In my opinion, nuclear's strength lies in its energy density. You could replace a coal or gas plant with a nuclear plant. This is an option being explored by a couple companies because it enabled them to use land no one wants that already has the cooling and transmission connections.
I support nuclear and it was a recurring theme in my environmental policy degree, but I am by no means against wind and solar. I think they are fantastic sources. They each have their trade offs. But we will need to make use of everything in the face of climate change.
One small note, nuclear is expensive, however be cautious when researching cost per Wh produced and look for the time scale. Wind and solar projects are often forecasted to run for just 20 years, they can certainly go longer though. Nuclear runs for 50+ years. Cost comparisons always use the lowest time scale. Nuclear obviously has a very high upfront cost that makes it stupid expensive for a 20 year plan, but over 50 it can reach parody or undercut renewables. Renewables are also done a disservice by these same reports by locking them to the low timescales when their leases are easily extended. But leases are also a large expense so renewal does bump the cost. Things get difficult to forecast with those known-unknows, so it's easier, and more accurate to take the lowest scale and say "this is the cost for 20 years" and let the reader decide if they want to math out the 2.5 multiplier. But then it wouldn't be accurate to the 20 years since renewal costs and...well, you see why we use the lower scale.