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POTUS 45.39: Dick Pictures for Everyone!!!!!!!

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unofan said:
Most distributed generation users (aka home solar) are on a separate tariff to begin with. The monthly fee is negligible in that fight. The bigger issue is net metering vs. avoided cost as far as what they get paid when putting energy back into the system.

The next biggest fight is whether utilities make them pay a demand charge or time of day rates vs a standard residential rate for the energy they use.

Compared to those issues, the monthly service charge is nothing.
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You and I apparently understand those next level conversations.
I needed to start the broader dialog with the mindset change from usage to basic access fee.

I expect net metering to be a big issue in the next ND legislature.

And as smart metering becomes more commonplace, yes, expect more "time of day / peak time" rate structures to be introduced. Right now I can pull out my smartphone and know hour by hour my home's usage. There's a reason for that: billing in the future. When those rate plans start to roll out, the "delay start" features on washing machines and dishwasher won't be unused buttons anymore.
 
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Rogie21 said:
With reporting indicating Cohen is not cooperating with the investigators (yet), should we expect another chorus of "being treated very badly" and "look at what THEY are doing to him" from Dishonest Donald? After all, the self-proclaimed tough on crime president has a soft spot for white collar criminals.
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/michael-cohen-plea-deal-trump.html
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No cooperate. No deal. No way do I make that deal. Burn in jail buddy.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
No cooperate. No deal. No way do I make that deal. Burn in jail buddy.
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Maybe. But what if Manafort walks? Manafort's trial is the layup. If they brick that one, how many pleas are going to be reached?
 
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SJHovey said:
Maybe. But what if Manafort walks? Manafort's trial is the layup. If they brick that one, how many pleas are going to be reached?
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Agreed. But, I don't think he's going to walk. If he does walk then you can just throw the whole thing out and get whatever report out of Mueller you're going to get and be done with it.

Manafort goes down, the domino's start to fall.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Agreed. But, I don't think he's going to walk. If he does walk then you can just throw the whole thing out.
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Worse.
Should that happen Mueller will have his very public Ricky Ricardo moment: " ... juice gotzum 'splainin' to do."
 
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It'll be interesting to see Cohen's deal. Does he just go in and plead guilty to tax evasion and a variety of campaign finance violations associated with the payoffs to people like Daniels, but refuse to stick the knife in Trump, or, does he cooperate and come forward as a witness against Trump basically saying that he did what Trump directed him to do.
 
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SJHovey said:
It'll be interesting to see Cohen's deal. Does he just go in and plead guilty to tax evasion and a variety of campaign finance violations associated with the payoffs to people like Daniels, but refuse to stick the knife in Trump, or, does he cooperate and come forward as a witness against Trump basically saying that he did what Trump directed him to do.
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No Trump. No deal. Fry him in court.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
No Trump. No deal. Fry him in court.
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Maybe. But two things could be working against you. First, if Mueller believes (like everyone thinks he believes) that he can't get to Trump anyway (other than say mean things about him in a report), why not make a deal with Cohen whether he cooperates or not. Second, never underestimate the ability to pay off someone like Cohen. He won't spend that much time in prison. A couple of years he'll be out, and he's going to need friends and cash.
 
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Drudge does Drudge as only Drudge can Drudge a Drudge headline:

MANAFORT: GUILTY
COHEN: I'M GUILTY
 
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Apparently Cohen's admission to campaign finance crimes included the nugget "with the coordination, and at the direction of a federal candidate for office".
 
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The Sicatoka said:
I'd be all for solar and wind if you could:

a. guarantee the sun always shines, even at night (because the pre-mees in the neo-natal unit need electricity at night; see: base line loads)
b. guarantee the wind always blows
c. have far better energy storage tech*

*This one is will be the solution, and death of fossil fuels, when it happens. I'm guessing I'll see the leading edge of the wide-scale implementation before I start becoming "fossil fuel".
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The Sicatoka said:
I think on issues for myself, thank you.

And on this I'm a pragmatist. A carbon-managed future is coming. I'll ride with the present generation resources mix because the energy storage tech we need is coming. It just is. Just look at a phone battery today versus the 1980s. To me a big NG conversion now is putting resources to an interim solution, a patch. Put the money into getting the storage issue solved and we're in a much better place.

When the energy storage we need is practical the carbon-based energy past becomes a campfire story*.


*Catch the irony there? ;) :D
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Full of questions as I read. You seem knowledgeable so asking (not sarcastic). If the storage capacity is not developed yet then how do so many other countries seem to be moving forward with renewables and decreasing dependence on them? Read thru saw a post saying sort of that but no real answer. Not all of them are in sunny places. Why aren't we able to move forward as rapidly as some other countries? It would seem to me that having a person in charge who is actively not discouraging innovation and encouraging old technology would not provide much motivation to move forward- esp when the agencies that would be 'helping' this along are actively decreasing any sort of regulation or enforcement of regulations that would make companies do things in a cleaner way.

I may be cynical but I see us falling farther and farther behind and I don't see a push to get ahead. We have a government who actively denigrates progress, is not funding research and is demeaning research about environment and the scientists who work in the field. I don't work in environmental field. I personally know 3 different people, all brilliant (were working on cutting edge research) that have left the country to pursue their career in places they deem more 'friendly' and 'committed'. They would have preferred to stay but to move forward they needed to go where the money and commitment was and they were poached by companies in other countries (UK, Canada, France).
 
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Severe Donaldstorm Warning, effective immediately for the White House and Charleston, WVa, and continuing for the next 24-48 hours. Conditions will include large volumes of paranoid and incoherent Tweets, outlandishly over the top statements at tonight's rally, and life-threatening amounts of McDonalds wrappers and Diet Coke cans left for the White House staff to pick up.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Severe Donaldstorm Warning, effective immediately for the White House and Charleston, WVa, and continuing for the next 24-48 hours. Conditions will include large volumes of paranoid and incoherent Tweets, outlandishly over the top statements at tonight's rally, and life-threatening amounts of McDonalds wrappers and Diet Coke cans left for the White House staff to pick up.
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It's situations like this where I hope the person responsible for the nuclear football has the good sense to "misplace" it for a few days.
 
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I'm placing the odds at 50/50 that he snaps (moreso than usual) and demands attendees as this rally prove their love for him by eating coal nuggets.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
Apparently Cohen's admission to campaign finance crimes included the nugget "with the coordination, and at the direction of a federal candidate for office".
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Jill Stein is in a lot of trouble
 
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