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Snow shedding from utility scale solar arrays is a fascinating topic, especially when they’re mounted on single axis trackers.
And when you’re a massive solar nerd.
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 AM
California does seem to be resting hard on whatever laurels it has, and being very do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do in respect of climate change.
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
From what I can tell this ban was initiated in 2015. Did LA County just renew it? Seems like it would be silly given state ab205 allows CEC to override local ordinances.
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Ken Livingstone gave a good quote on this re:City of London banking.
the simple fact is we really only have one rival, and that is New York. You are not going to have major banks in the City relocate to Shanghai because there's a degree of political uncertainty, perhaps decades ahead. They are not going to Frankfurt because young men want to go out on the pull and do a load of cocaine and they can't really do that easily in Frankfurt.
January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Already contacted my senate and assembly reps in support of sb868.
Permitting schmermitting!
January 21, 2026 at 3:27 AM
1. Only if they move the state capital to Carlsbad or Solvang.
2. Only if Iceland gets MN and AK.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The dress matches your bubble soled air max?!
Good work.
January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
From a friend who was in the Italian Alps last week
Q: How’s the snow? A: No real snow, pretty much 100% artificial.
January 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
SOLidarity!
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Seriously though, read it, tell your CA legislators what you want to see change about it, tell them balcony solar is fucking ace, tell your non CA (and non UT) legislators to get after it too…
January 7, 2026 at 12:45 AM
My experience with metro micro has been that I only trust it for very discretionary travel. I do love that it creates a bus stop outside my house, and it’s amazing for getting around hills which otherwise mean two buses, but I’d be fine with two buses given world class frequency.
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I’ve been looking at it as Leeds Derangement Syndrome, but could indeed be an overlapping case of AVDS.
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Well you’ve been writing in LA long enough, it’s about time you had a screenplay ready to go.
January 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Kavanaugh Bus Stop?
December 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Happy new heat pump!
(Pipe work now insulated)
Tech clean California, switchison.org and energysage are your friends!
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Mesrine Burrito?
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The poor boy has had too much Red Bull in his career.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Things are coming to me better today than in the week:
My Neighbour Totoro
Brief Encounter
Thor 2 (when Thor takes an implausible three minute tube ride to Greenwich)
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gasoline is produced by fairies who use special magic. And the wonderful thing is once you have the engine made of metal that grew on a tree, you don’t have to keep mining for the next twenty years of the vehicle’s life.
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is fascinating given the IEA’s long history of assuming solar deployment rates will be flat forever. Is this projection from something other than their base cases?
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When I was looking at what Utah passed it seemed like there’s maybe a problem with a standoff emerging regarding the requirements for UL listed products and the NEC.
What would it take for Costco, BestBuy, Walmart to start selling these?
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It really does have “what if cocaine had a trillion dollars?” energy.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM