Vistra Corp's 3000-megawatt Moss Landing energy storage facility went up in flames on Thursday, in a blaze that is expected to remain contained to the building. "There are no active fire suppression efforts going on, as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn," according to a Monterey Sheriff official. Both Vistra and the county official said that all site personnel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

  • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
    412·
    1 month ago

    We need an authoritarian figure to nationalize the energy supply, shut down these wasteful expressions of late stage capitalism, mandate rooftop solar, and build out our nuclear fleet.

      • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
        23·
        1 month ago

        Well, I don’t know how we’re supposed to fix the climate while playing nice with bourgeois interests.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Trying to fix the climate with authoritarianism is roughly comparable to fixing a leaky faucet by burning down the house.

          • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            I do not understand how climate change is analogous to a leaky faucet with respect to anything.

            • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              But you did understand the “burn down the house” part, right? Because that’s all I really need from you.

              • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
                2·
                1 month ago

                Sometimes you have to intentionally burn some stuff to create a firebreak and save a lot more other stuff.

                • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  Uh huh. But here, you’re burning down the house because it has a leaky faucet.

                  Authoritarian bullshit is a completely unreasonable response to this problem.

                  • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
                    21·
                    1 month ago

                    A little bit of authoritarianism is what we need now to mitigate climate change and avoid the much worse kind of authoritarianism we will be in for as climate change gets worse. There’s no hippy la-la conscious capitalism way out of this situation.