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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:03 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... in-august/

ERCOT paid Texas Bitcoin miner to not mine and paid them $30 million to not mine during heat wave.

Got my bill this month for Aug. it was 13 cents last month it was 11 cents a KWh, not sure why it bumped. My share of the $30 mil?

It’s Sept suppose to be 103 today. Hottest Summer I can remember ever.

It’s not CO2 if it’s anything other than weather it’s the Sun.

Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface.

... the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer.

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:48 am Read the first part of this page...but in light of the recent $16 billion ruling, don't have any coffee in your mouth or you'll need a new keyboard:

https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/about/ ... mpact.aspx

And then you'll come this: "The Public Utility Commission is organized under the direction of three full-time appointed commissioners and the executive director, who is selected by the commissioners."

So there is zero public oversite or accountability of the commission, and no administrators are elected officials. Oversite is by the state bureaucracy only, and the commission's director is selected unilaterally by the three appointed commissioners.

With hindsight to February, does this seem like a great idea? I mean, the Texas Railroad Commissioner is an elected position (and, interestingly enough, the Texas Railroad Commission has no jurisdiction or authority over railroads in Texas) but the PUC director is not an elected position? After all, the PUC only controls electricity, telecommunications, and water. Nothing major...