Everyone plays a part, Stacy Abrams

i'd like to see more solar and windmills here, help control pricing, but with oil politics, idk if it will ever happen

 

Don't you have political issues in just expanding natural gas service?

 

The oil companies have made it clear that they aren't going to walk away from their agenda and the only solution is for governments to nationalize oil producers and wind them down. This will probably lead to a war because most modern wars are about fossil fools anyways. But these corrupt corporations are already causing more untimely deaths per year than covid ever caused via air pollution and direct killing of those who resist their colonialism.

However we're starting to wake up and a new legal strategy of going after them with homicide charges is finally starting to get traction. Here's a few references my friends and I have been working on.

Please write your state's Attorney General about this!
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"The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution is associated with 7 million premature deaths annually. Sources of air pollution are multiple and context specific."
Air pollution


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"Braman argued that pursuing homicide charges would have a greater impact on fossil fuel companies than the cases currently wending their way through court in part because the penalties would be steeper. Rather than paying a fine, homicide charges could open up an array of other outcomes that could materially alter how companies operate. Homicide is a catchall term that includes charges ranging from manslaughter to murder. The former is a lesser charge where death was caused without intent, while murder is reserved for cases where the defendant either had knowledge that taking a specific action could kill someone or engaged in a premeditated killing. Arkush said the fact that fossil fuel companies knew that their products worsened the climate crisis and yet continued to extract oil, gas and coal “comes extremely close” to meeting the definition of murder, though the paper lays out the case for multiple types of homicide charges. The paper also argues that the case for climate homicide has been bolstered by attribution science, which seeks to ascertain how much the climate crisis has worsened individual extreme weather events. Some studies have even been able to attribute a specific number of extreme weather deaths to the climate crisis." New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide | Oil | The Guardian

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"Researchers believe that as the world attempts to increase the exploitation of fossil fuels in the wake of the war in Ukraine, campaigners will come under greater threats. In 2021, the year with the most recent data available, some 200 people were killed at a rate of 4 per week. There is increasing stress on natural resources globally and this is playing out as a battle particularly in the Amazon in Brazil," said Shruti Suresh, from Global Witness, who says that 85% of the killings in Brazil have occurred in this region. This is about land inequality, in that defenders are fighting for their land, and in this increasing race to get more land to acquire and exploit resources, the victims are indigenous communities, local communities, whose voices are being suppressed." Over 1,700 environment activists killed in decade - report - BBC News

 

probably, but i'm not aware. there's a lot of ng in the greater boston area, the whole eastern region. maybe in more rural areas?
our biggest problem is old pipes and cost.
we have political issues with most everything

 

My house, all-electric from its original construction, now has enough solar production to be net-zero-energy (on an annual basis, not daily or seasonally).

As for those concerned about weather- or enemy-induced power failure? A future step is to add a battery system (e.g. Tesla Powerwall or similar competing products), which would not only provide some on-site energy storage, but also dovetail with the grid-tie solar system to operate in an off-grid mode, making the solar system functional in island mode when the grid is down.

The original grid-tie solar systems were intentionally designed to not function in island mode, for utility worker safety. But new battery storage controllers and architectures have addressed this issue, allowing new and some old grid-tie systems to safely operate in island mode. Lots more $$, but they add to resiliency.