The problem is that informed opinion thinks that Trump has something around a 50% chance of winning there. That’s a kind of risk that regular people can’t put serious money into.
Those commercial and residential emissions - those are largely about the fuels burned in buildings. 14% of the total is enough to matter — and when we’re running out of time to get emissions to zero, we need to cut it all to zero, not pick and choose.
Two options right now:
Definitely could do it that way. But everybody is better off if we do it in a planned way instead of leaving people to deal with that kind of a mess.
No, it’s relevant for the cost of distributing the gas. It’s not cost-effective to run a gas distribution system just to commercial kitchens without the much larger distribution going to heating.
Three reasons:
Heat is actually the big one here; it’s a big chunk of emissions.
Getting rid of gas heat makes the gas stoves uneconomic.
It means running new higher-amperage electrical connections to them.
I’m willing to put up with slightly higher prices if it means people live longer as a result.
It’s a problem the whole news industry has. Craigslist took all the classified ads. Facebook took almost all the business ads. So what’s left is subscriptions — and if you don’t charge, the paper goes bust.
Something like 80% of local newspapers in the US have gone under already.
That’s why I posted a gift link, so most people won’t hit the paywall. The big exceptions:
How pulse-oriented the heat from your induction stove is varies a lot by stove. The cheaper ones tend to use nothing but pulses for output control; the better ones tend to have the ability to actually lower continuous output. There’s a whole range of combinations out there too, where, say, the first 50% of output cut happens continuously, but it shifts to pulses below that.
I’ll also note that the induction stoves with a thermostat which lets you fry without ever smoking the oil are amazing.
Other places are doing things. Most of Europe has had declining emissions for a while.
China’s emissions look like they’re starting to fall too
But none if it will go anywhere meaningful if the US doesn’t get off fossil fuels.
Which is one of many reasons it’s important to not elect him.
Or…they’re explicitly looking for one’s who want to punch down by race so that they can rally supporters for a violent revolution followed by permanent fascist rule by rich white men
But then they wouldn’t be Republicans and would lose those sweet patronage dollars
Nah, but they’ll have avenues to make it all happen because he seems to be wildly influenced by the last thing somebody said, and Vance knows who butters his bread.
He’s surrounded by people who are going to try and make those promises come to fruition. That’s why Project 2025 includes a directory of willing to implement it.
The criminals are the first step in the deforestation, and they’re able to use fire in a way that they weren’t before because it’s hotter and drier, in part because of past deforestation.
There has been a ton of modeling on how declining numbers of ratepayers cause methane gas prices to skyrocket. If you actually get rid of almost all the people buying it, the last few are left paying a fortune for what was once common infrastructure shared by many people.