I'm not worried about the CA market anyways. They've already got rolling blackouts with their fossil plants running full tilt and the nuke sites not decommissioned yet.
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Platypus Engineer
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I though part of problem in CA was that they were too dependent on wind / solar for power generation. Other places require wind /solar to have backup generating capacity.
CA doesn't even have enough baseload, never mind worrying about backup capacity. Diablo Canyon (shutting down) is nearly a tenth of CA's total power. Remove DC, and more than half of their power comes from natural gas. That's not counting the huge amount of power they import from Palo Verde and a bevy of out of state coal plants that California either owns outright or its utilities have shares in.
More great prelim data from Moderna. Maybe I can actually see my family next year!
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What is the population of EU for comparison
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I think they are around 440 Million to our 350 Million? So all things being equal would put us around 130K?
Its funny ( to me anyways) if you, today, search for US VS europe Covid Graphs, all but one shows the old data from the summer.. but again this is a marathon, not a sprint..
Its funny ( to me anyways) if you, today, search for US VS europe Covid Graphs, all but one shows the old data from the summer.. but again this is a marathon, not a sprint..
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