Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Before you can can do that, you need enough renewable generation capacity to exceed peak demand. And of course that will never happen because of the bottomless appetite of AI and bitcoin mining for electric power.

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We need an authoritarian figure to nationalize the energy supply, shut down these wasteful expressions of late stage capitalism, mandate rooftop solar, and build out our nuclear fleet.

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Trying to fix the climate with authoritarianism is roughly comparable to fixing a leaky faucet by burning down the house.

              • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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                1 day ago

                But you did understand the “burn down the house” part, right? Because that’s all I really need from you.

                  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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                    1 day ago

                    Uh huh. But here, you’re burning down the house because it has a leaky faucet.

                    Authoritarian bullshit is a completely unreasonable response to this problem.