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U-6 looks at those kinds of underemployment numbers, and is doing pretty well:

This doesn't mean it's perfect, or everybody is now a sudden billionaire. It does mean that it's within the range of "pretty much ok for most people"

They're fracking, but in granite, rather than in an oil and gas deposit. So you shouldn't see the same kinds of hydrocarbon releases and contamination that go with fracking for oil and gas, or the same huge production of contaminated wastewater that needs to be disposed of.

A lot of boreal forest does need low-intensity fire. This spaces trees out and prevents fuel accumulation so that the trees largely survive.

If you let things go, you end up killing all the seeds in the soil when an intense fire comes through, and depending on whether the local microclimate has changed, and what seed sources are actually available, you can end up with a very different plant community.

If you want to keep that from happening, it takes regular application of thinning and prescribed burns.

Yeah he has some serious issues with coherence. But I'm paying a lot of attention to climate, so I notice it more on that issue than others.

The existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I'm not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.

Pretty much, unless we're able to substantially alter the makeup of the Supreme Court.

They're talking about 5+ years on the new nuclear in these. And they haven't done it before, so a 30% deadline slip is realistic.

You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

There's a detailed article about that — Georgia doesn't have a law requiring that the ballot be counted, so there may be some level of discretion for election officials to toss it.

Apparently, smaller animals make smaller pieces.