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starcom_magnate t1_iu20tmj wrote

I'm 100% on board that the debate was a disaster, but I'm going to wait on a poll that doesn't have a "B" rating, and has only been around 67% accurate, historically.

Definitely will see tightening across the board, though.

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Gym-Coach t1_iu4tipz wrote

Does it really matter who "won" given the radically different positions they hold on critical issues?

Oz lobbied for & gladly accepted Trump's endorsement, said abortion is murder during the primary, and is a pretty shameless carpet-bagger.

Fetterman supports workers rights, at least a $15 minimum wage, legalizing cannabis and the right to decide when/how to have a family.

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[deleted] t1_iu53lr9 wrote

Supports workers rights by working towards ending oil production?

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Gym-Coach t1_iu5kcr7 wrote

Would you prefer we kill worker's families by not transitioning to renewable energy?

Go talk to families living near fracking sites in western PA. Sure there are some jobs, typically taken by people coming from out of state, but also lots of asthma, cancer, and other maladies all while spitting more global warming methane into the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, there are a fast growing number of jobs in and around renewables. Some of those will be building enhance geothermal generation facilities, jobs very much the equal of fracking without the very significant health and environmental problems. And that's not to mention the trillions of $ we will all save using ever cheaper renewable energy.

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Gym-Coach t1_iu5ktnk wrote

Here's a podcast on the huge potential of enhanced geothermal https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#details

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[deleted] t1_iu5mcch wrote

I am Icelandic, dont need a podcast on geothermals. While you guys have no steps of getting to renewable energy its pretty stupid to try to and leap to there.

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Gym-Coach t1_iu5ns7t wrote

Perhaps you do. Enhanced geothermal isn't what you've got in Iceland, it's quite different.

Democrats recently passed over $600B of renewable incentives that will draw much more in private investment into play, so we do have steps.

Lots of details in this podcast and this podcast.

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[deleted] t1_iu5oc4z wrote

We dont need enhanced geothermal energy although we helped innovate in that field.

https://www.invest.is/press--media/news/invest/world%E2%80%99s-first-magma-egs-system-created/213

The biggest viable options is nuclear but you guys are investing in systems that are years or decades away while making the average person feel the pain until thats possible.

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Gym-Coach t1_iu5t63e wrote

Of course you don't, but we do and it will employ many thousands of people. Thanks for that article, but it's (mostly) not what we will be doing here.

Nuclear has a future only if it can be done in a way to get on a learning curve. Otherwise it will remain too expensive and too slow to implement.

That's false. We are building out solar and wind now while developing & commercializing new options.

My most recent client is an electric construction company in the process of more than doubling in size (again) from $200M to $500M, with transmission lines, substations and grid solar array installation as their primary growth areas with lots of good paying union jobs.

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Big_Meme_Daddy t1_iu6ube4 wrote

Co/efficient and Wick also show Oz leading by a couple points

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