Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

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

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
    212·
    2 days 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.

      • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
        13·
        21 hours ago

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

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

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

            • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

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

                • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  1·
                  8 hours 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.

                  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
                    1·
                    2 hours 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.