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Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:29PM (#41116171)
Missed that in your comment, sorry.

That being said I find the avg to be the only interesting metric (unless you build power lines)

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:22PM (#41116154)
My concern with California hydro is the water wastage. Nothing excuses the amount of water California wastes.
Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:40PM (#41113342)
Unless I'm missing something this is the instantaneous generation, ie it needs to be averaged over 24hr (actually over the year) to get a real picture of CA's energy mix.

(Also, I wouldn't put hydro in the clean energy in CA)

Re:Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:35PM (#41113287)
Are you sure?

This link from 2021 says the net power consumed in CA was less than 34% renewables, and the in-state generated renewables are about the same.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

EDIT: pedantic physics moment. When I say "power" consumed I actually mean the time integral of power over the course of a year, i.e. energy, expressed as GWh

Italy has become a den of tourist traps. I ate terribly there despite my Italian is still good enough that the locals thought I was a native Roman (I lived there as a teen)
Thats unsurprising. "Italian" food in America isn't and the Autogrill is excellent.
Re:GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:42PM (#41089197)
The problem with those backups is that GPS is so easy to use and reliable that the skills to fly without them might atrophy.
Re:Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018] on Saturday July 27, 2024 @11:19AM (#41087134)
The price is undefined because there is no conception of the object and therefore no market.

If the idea of a phone - a computing/telecommunication device that use natural philosophy and not magic - were presented then an initial price can begin to be formed, defined as the amount of money they are willing to spend to develop it.