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i don’t know enough about CAISO rules to be sure, but it seems like it could play well with their extremely high power prices and new net-metering rules

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 19h

Also, “if there’s words, they were produced by a mind” is a hard instinct to break

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 19h

Love base power, the business seems like a great end-run around interconnection difficulties and (hopefully) a way to get manufacturing-type economies of scale to the power grid

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

Good set though

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

The setup with people dancing behind the DJ makes me oddly nervous

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

This round goes after a wide variety of states

The Inflation Reduction Act's Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants, which were meant to support the conversion of shuttered or at- risk auto plants to be able to manufacture electric vehicles and their supply chains, would be fully obliterated based on the new list. All 13 grants that were awarded under the program are there, including $80 million for Blue Bird's new electric school bus plant in Fort Valley, Georgia, $500
million for General Motors' Grant River Assembly Plant in Lansing, Michigan, and $285 million for Mercedes-Benz's next-generation electric van plant
in Ladson, South Carolina.

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

One dipped Italian beef away from going native

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

??

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

Thrust, imo

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · Apr 25

Been thinking about Andy Crouch’s framework for thinking about technologies: they either promise
1. You will be able to _____
or
2. You won’t have to ______

But there’s a hidden promise there: “you’ll be able to” implies “you’ll have to”
and
“you won’t have to” implies “you won’t be able to”

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense, right? It doesn’t seem to offer anything particularly new/better to customers with better credit (no miles etc), and it’s just another bill to keep up with