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You're too young to remember how we were so inspired by Apollo 8 that when they returned we decided to plan a mission to actually land

I don't understand why we don't like them asking this question. This seems like a really good thing to know the administrations position on so that a legal response can be made

I feel like this is a really bad idea on their part. So far they've only been terrorizing blue communities, now everyone is gonna get a taste. Just a litttttle but harder for people to ignore their own eyes and ears.

How do you define continent?

Yes but those breakers provide only over current protection which is great for a radial system but breaks down once you add generation on various feeders.

Google pumped storage. This is what most grid scale energy storage is. It's the concept behind hydroelectric dams as well

Unfortunately there is directionality when it comes to the protection. I'd love to see a fault study of a house with a bunch of these on different circuits.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just don't understand how fragile democracies are

Hilarious dude. I've designed some of the things you mention. Data centers consume power, a shit ton of it. The idea that the demand is increasing but the price won't is bonkers to me. And that's before you consider all the labor going towards building new infrastructure for these things rather than repairing our existing grid. This trend is absolutely ravaging our industry. I'm being asked to design GREENFEILD fossil fuel gen stations to feed gigawatt scale data centers. How is that not insane? We as a society are burning our planet for LLMs

I think you're glossing over how interconnected the grid is. California does not generate it's own power, it buys a significant amount from Oregon. So if data centers are being built in Oregon, that will impact costs in California. For instance, there's a DC link from the dams on the Columbia in eastern oregon that goes directly to southern California, and that area is now absolutely littered with data centers. Like a whole city of them right by the dams. They are there specifically for the cheap land and cheap hydro energy. And they use A LOT. Obviously I'm not packing any numbers here but I also wasnt born yesterday. Zero chance that all that load, there specifically, isn't impacting prices.

*Spain is. Everyone else is all aboard it seems. They may whine and complain but they're all on team imperialism. As far as I can tell European leaders are enablers just like American democratic leaders are.

I'ma trust the experts on this one