In The News Today...

You may have disappointed quite a few baby sitters who were seeking not only adventure but money making opportunities as well and I don't mean baby sitter wages. Some of those young girls wear sloganized panties: Who needs credit cards when you have this? or Sugar Daddies Only.

Womens groups, immigration groups have been known to advise making false allegations of child sexual abuse in divorce actions. It impairs the man's ability to pay for a divorce lawyer, it induces him to stop fighting a generous settlement and its great fun. Some divorce lawyers in California had cops on their payroll... they would add in a DUI conviction against the husbant to prove him an unfit parent.

Quote: Fleastiff

Womens groups, immigration groups have been known to advise making false allegations of child sexual abuse in divorce actions. It impairs the man's ability to pay for a divorce lawyer, it induces him to stop fighting a generous settlement and its great fun. Some divorce lawyers in California had cops on their payroll... they would add in a DUI conviction against the husbant to prove him an unfit parent.

There was some doc on Netflix talking about the racket family court is in the USA. Never fun when you have to share the elevator with people going there, you can just see how beat up they look.

Looks like Vegas has another source for electric power.

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NV Energy on Monday said the project, dubbed Boulder Solar II, has reached its commercial operation status.

The utility says the plant will provide 50 megawatts of power to customers in the Las Vegas Valley. That's enough power to sustain about 30,000 typical southern Nevada homes.

NV Energy will be buying the power from AEP Renewables LLC, which owns the new plant.

While I'm pro-alternative energy, seeing big chunks of solar panels placed under private contract is not really freeing the consumer or getting them in control of their own energy -- just handing that potential freedom to a third party, seems to me.

Florida voters just defeated an initiative in the last election from the power companies here ceding their right to directly install solar without paying the power companies a fee.

I remember when Solar was a big thing in the 70's. But Solar will never gain traction until the utility companiess can put a meter on sunlight.

What they meter is the amount the panel owners feed into the grid so that utilities do not have to generate it.

Quote: Fleastiff

What they meter is the amount the panel owners feed into the grid so that utilities do not have to generate it.

But what kills solar is Demand Kilowatt Hours . Consumer gets charged a higher rate on coldest winter days, when more people are using heat. There are cases in Colorado where a consumer might only use 20% of the Kilowatts he did before installing solar, but his bill is 80% of prior bill.

That is terrible. I guess the only hope is to go totally solar. Many live-aboard yachts are solar hybrids and some are totally solar.

Quote: buzzardknot

But what kills solar is Demand Kilowatt Hours . Consumer gets charged a higher rate on coldest winter days, when more people are using heat. There are cases in Colorado where a consumer might only use 20% of the Kilowatts he did before installing solar, but his bill is 80% of prior bill.

Well, obviously, that's not a flaw in solar power itself, it's a flaw in how the billing system is set up. I'm sure it's not like that everywhere.

Most utilities use tiered pricing. The first chunk of KwH is the cheapest proportionately. The next chunk costs more, and so on, until the highest usage carries the heftiest bill. Having a solar installation that meets only part of your household's usage demands is still very valuable, because you stay out of those top-price tiers when your usage is high.

Quote: buzzardknot

But what kills solar is Demand Kilowatt Hours . Consumer gets charged a higher rate on coldest winter days, when more people are using heat. There are cases in Colorado where a consumer might only use 20% of the Kilowatts he did before installing solar, but his bill is 80% of prior bill.

Because it is a huge fixed cost to have a plant at the ready. No different than any other kind of better price given to a customer with a standing order.

Pennsylvania college group wants pins to start conversation on 'white privilege'

"Elizabethtown College Democrats are asking students to wear a white puzzle piece pin every day to encourage people to give further thought about how racial identity affects their lives, Lancaster Online reported."

Just another reminder of how it is liberals who want to divide us up among races. History shows one group having another wear symbols of their "status" is not a good thing at all.