If you like the following the cities:
1. NYC
2. Parts of SF
3. Amsterdam
4. Copenhagen
5. Paris
6. Rome
7. Berlin
8. Tokyo
9. Barcelona
10. Lisbon
11. Madrid
12. Athens
13. Rio

And the list goes on

Then you like liberal abundance. It all comes back to the fundamentals of progressive urbanism.

If you’re a 20-30 year old, living in a liberal city in America, the reason why you feel like it’s lacking in many ways
is because it voted liberal but didn’t produce liberal abundance. Your favorite cities in the world produced liberal abundance and that’s why you find them great.

Life and culture follows. Corner bakeries, small coffee shops, more hikes and more roadtrips, but on a train - like your semester abroad in Europe. No more car insurance and parking tickets. More time with your friends and family. You’re walking more. You’re more social. More community.

Just curious as I’m quite new to all this - what’s the difference between nominal and real price?

Now I’m just thinking out loud: what if cargo ships would drag large floating pv behind them and charge up batteries to then unload at ports!

I’d like to know what specifically about the racking/mounting/cabling is more expensive. I can’t yet believe that it’s substantially harder. I can’t imagine putting a solar panel over a canal is much harder to do than some rooftops.

Why are they more expensive to build? I don’t see why floating would be more…and why more expensive to operate? Apparently floating PV is more efficient than regular

Not to mention the fact that the water cools the panels and increase the efficiency of the panels.

@ezraklein.bsky.social 🙏

Investment in simple public infrastructure with proper execution is the best thing a city can do. It’s like investing in quality soil for a garden.

Great point! Large farms will become the best opportunity for deploying Microgrids. Not to mention indoor vertical farming as commercial real estate becomes obsolete.

Any airports with running on a microgrid?

Sensitivity to prairie chickens slowed down this process. I’m willing to bet that if you let prairie chickens and other livestock rotationally graze through the property (row by row schedule), everyone benefits.

I think (could be wrong!) that the problem is that at around 80% capacity they stop being useful for the application of a car (can’t go fast/far) and begin to deteriorate quickly. I’m college I did a project that gave ev batteries a second life as a supplemental BESS for Microgrids.

Securing Microgrids and DERs is going to be a huge priority and opportunity. Can’t wait to watch it play out. Would love to learn about some innovators in the space.

EVs are to the grid what cache is to the internet. Small storage application that can help stabilize traffic.

Definitely big opportunity for disaster management firms to invest and deploy what I like to call flex-grids. They’re mobile, micro, and marvelous. Better than just a generator.