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That photo is depressing.

That’s what neighborhood backup batteries are for. Drop some sodium ion battery installations in each district, smooth out the grid and keep it up and running.

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False equivalence. While the ebook licensing monopoly is awful, that’s not what this case was about.

Internet Archive loaned out potentially infinite copies of books it had neither licensed nor owned multiple physical copies of. This would be like if your local public library made Xerox copies of a single book and handed them out to any patron who wanted a copy.

If IA had simply bothered to purchase a physical copy (even used!) for every copy they loaned out, they would have had a much stronger case.

A crisis of their own making. They really should have known better. Hopefully their non profit status is taken into account during sentencing.

This makes me wish I was rich like Steve Jobs’ widow so I could donate new, roomy, gorgeous branch libraries everywhere.

I was surprised to see a nice library in Lexington as part of the list. I was completely grossed out by the “sponsored by Sealy tempur-pedic” wall though. Inviting corporate sponsorship is just inviting future censorship.

I don’t recall any of the Bushes being or claiming to be “environmental”. And if you believed such a claim coming from a Bush, there are plenty of people who would like to sell you a bridge or two.

Interesting, considering the company is owned by Microsoft.

As someone who has solar panels on their roof, this is a bunch of BS. They paid for themselves after five years. I didn’t lease them, I paid for the system and the city, state, and feds helped to offset the costs with rebates. I didn’t have to rewire my house. Without the panels, my summer HVAC bill would be twice what I pay each month.

They used to. GM had the Chevy Bolt and Kia had the Soul EV. The bolt is supposedly coming back, but I don’t have much faith that it will be small and economical like the previous version.

I wonder how many EV owners in the US have solar panels on their houses? I bet it’s a larger percentage than ICE drivers.

Clyde’s not that far from Abilene and I’m not seeing any stories about Abilene running out of water or defaulting on debt. Seems like there might be more to this story.