I don’t think you understand what Libertarian is.

That’s not the way it’ll be. New houses will be built with HVAC ducting and then after the inspection, people will install a furnace. This is so stupid it isn’t funny.

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You have any idea how many people the Colombia Basin Project feeds?

I asked how she became a millionaire after quitting her nursing job.

Not as efficient...as what? That article doesn't compare to gas heating; only to itself at other temperatures, and to resistive electric (COP = 1).

Ulitmately, for most of Washington, the hours per year where the temperature is low enough for heat pumps to be unacceptably inefficient is quite small, and more than made up for by the rest of the year.

Are they actually required to put AC in new houses, or did you make that up?

The efficiency is less important - we already have residential houses. Why not cover them with solar panels?

Don't get me wrong, if they don't generate enough electricity to cover the cost of the panels or something like that, then efficiency is important. But there's no point comparing their efficiency to a solar farm.

If we're honest, all solar is far less efficient here than in most US states.

https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/Snoqualmie

FYI there are webcams along the highway, you can use this site to check road, traffic, and weather conditions before you leave.

Thank you!!!

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Yes. Fucking love this about washington. Hate having to take time off work to vote.

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Ah i had read wnp-2 was functional

The company couldn’t afford to finish them, they were never functional. The cooling towers are the only finished part, they never finished construction on the actual power plant.

Chasing growing electric demands and reducing reliance on fossil fuel in the consumer sector can be solved separately and simultaneously.

Just because this will put more demand on the electrical grid doesn't mean that energy can't come from sources other than the dam (including fossil fuels).

This move just centralizes the energy production to the electric grid, so that any source of energy can power it, rather than only fossil fuels.

They will use natural gas to power these homes too, but it'll be more efficient and safer than transporting gas to the last mile and burning it on site. And when the grid has other energy sources ready to handle the demand, the fossil fuel sources can be retired.

I came from the UK where we thought it was impossible for us to really leave the EU, and we did.

Moved to America in the same year where I thought Hillary would be president, and trump won.

I just don't take anything for granted anymore. Nothing is ever a certainty.

P.s. I votes for Murray this morning.

My heat pump is rated to -15f. It definitely worked a lot harder in the last big storm, but we were comfortable.

Off Huckleberry creek?

Indeed perhaps I should say but who is discouraged or made more apathetic about voting by the messages Does an ad influence ballot return rates?

The article you posted is based on a study from 2013

Any real right libertarian state decays into what Russia is.. essentially instantly. because right-libertarianism is not a workable system. it's as realistic as communism (that is to say: not at all) because they both make the same fundamentally naive assumptions about human nature

Which link in the article was it?

The article is based on a study from 2013.

Not sure I would describe Russia as libertarian…. Haven’t seen many libertarians advocating for state controlled/heavily influenced economy and mass invasions of neighboring countries….. a libertarian paradises is at least partially alive in lots of areas of rural USA where people live more in connection with nature and their neighbors. Obviously these people benefit from gov subsidies tho involving healthcare and infrastructure and agriculture but culturally the people do live a libertarian lifestyle (from my own experience).