Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why America’s Most Conservative State is Building its Largest Wind Farm" video.

  1. Sadly the American "conservative" means societal traditionalist, not ecological conservationist.
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  2. Sagging transmission lines explain part of it (electrical resistance increases with temperature), especially if it needs to cross the better part of a state to reach the customers.
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  3. Because the impact of an incident (which only grows more inevitable with more adoption) is too damaging for too long, and the controls to properly mitigate and contain these risks only keep rising in costs ☢️
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  4. ​Yet CA remains solid blue and too many people still want to move in permanently. The deeper issue is that traditionalist interests are literally dying faster than they are convincing new converts.
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  5. Because it's new and expensive with more socialized benefits, and therefore a concern instead of an opportunity.
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