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The sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 18 for the 34 felonies he's been convicted of already.

The other cases don't have a conviction yet.

The problem is that electricity will be free intermittently. This means it's going to require finding ways to use it that are not capital-intensive.

I was surprised by that too.

Window screens, DEET, Picaridin, and the Thermacell system all work just fine.

Even places that didn't ban DDT stopped using it because mosquitoes evolved resistance.

Yeah, it's a choice between that, and imposing mandatory evacuations when it's not yet certain that populated areas will burn.

It's more that there have never been the votes to do it, but there might be after the coming election.

We were discussing:

Schumer said that he would pass two voting rights laws under a filibuster exception. On abortion he said, “I have to discuss that with my caucus. This is one of the issues we would have to debate and discuss and evolve.”

And you bring in a completely different topic to jump up and down about.

For sure. The challenge is that there's a cost of capital, and intermittently available excess power is difficult to use cost-effectively with anything like current technology.

They're both going to be gone. If the election goes well, Kristen Sinema will be replaced by Ruben Gallego, and there will be 50 Senators + the VP willing to pass this kind of change.

It's a trial balloon for actually doing it.

In 2020-2021 Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema weren't willing to go along, so the votes weren't there.

This is what a trial balloon looks like.

He can't do it today because the House is controlled by Republicans, and they won't go along with passing anything.

The big issue with it is that it's an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for only somewhat less warming than CO2:

There are also a bunch of local issues from people who suffer medical problems from being forced to breathe elevated concentrations of CH4 on an ongoing basis.