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America Can Hit A Clean Energy Grand Slam With Permitting Reform

It always amazes me how historic moments in sports can parallel the challenges we face in our daily lives. In Game 1 of Major League Baseball’s 2024 World Series, we were reminded that seizing the moment with our best efforts can lead to successes that change the future. Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against New York Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes Jr. with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning at Dodger Stadium, with the implications for the season on the line. Under the highest pressure, Freeman wasted no time putting everything he had into his best swing to send the first-pitch fastball from Cortes Jr. deep into the stands for a walk-off grand slam, earning the Dodgers a 6-3 comeback victory after being one out away from a devastating loss. (Side note: As a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, it gives me great pleasure to use this example here and to have witnessed LA’s dominance to win the Series).

The U.S. contributions to the transition to clean energy are facing a similar high-pressure moment. We have the talent and the resources (from recent federal investments), and now we need to step up and take our “best swing” to achieve our goals of delivering affordable, reliable and clean power to all Americans. Unfortunately, we’re staring down a very stingy pitcher: the federal permitting process for clean energy and transmission projects.

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I’m not a financial pro, but here’s some advice:

Don’t live on a budget.  Make a lot of money and live far beneath your means.  What value does luxury actually bring to your life, especially if it makes you nervous about running out of cash?

As I told my kids when they were growing up, “Unless you’re completely shallow, showing off your money is an idiotic thing to do.  You make false friends and have people glomming onto you to sell you stuff you really don’t need.”

Warren Buffett still lives in a modest house in Nebraska, a state in which he could buy an entire country.  Maybe there is something about him and his values that could benefit you.

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Solar PV in Spain

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I see.

There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.

LOL.

Solar PV in Spain

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What’s Wrong with Human Civilization?

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It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.

People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species.  Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed.  They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.

As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.

What’s Wrong with Human Civilization?

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