I think we might see a slow down again with the future raises in rates coming in.

I could make the weekend hours but man perly's mid day feels like it's somewhat giving up the rest of the day because of how full I would be.

I thought the understaffed thing would work itself out but man at this point IDK.

https://www.perlysrichmond.com/

Their website still says 9-3 Wednesday- Sunday so maybe Google is wrong?

Yeah it makes it so hard to visit these days. Plus with their food being heavy I'm hesitant to have it for lunch as well... I'd have been back a few times but the hours don't work for me.

Like how hard would it be to have a few nights

I mean when you have enough support is it a scam. It's poorly spent money that everyone agrees on.

That's why I was against the coliseum, it doesn't make financial sense and Richmond shouldn't be in the game of subsidizing entertainment.

The whole flour vs corn thing is so dumb. Northern Mexico into Texas has flour south of that has corn. Neither is more or less legit than the other.

For me La Milpa > Panchito's but you can't beat Panchito's Wednesday $1.50 taco deal or whatever.

Also for me I don't love Panchito's lack of salsas that are not hot. La Milpa has guacamole, mild, salsa Verde , and Chipotle. If I'm driving 15 minutes for awesome tacos I want to taste them.

If it's little Mexico/Lalo's cheap tacos drenched it tapatio and a fresh thing of chips and salsa. That's good but a fundamentally different experience.

This is how all sports works and sometimes entertainment... It's a good ribbon cutting thing...

Yeah I think under Obama you didn't have to be under educational pretenses. Then Trump said you had to and now I think it's like educational groups again only.

Or go to a second country then Cuba as long as you aren't trying to keep a top clearance for government work you are good.

I've heard that the embargo is purely an American thing and that you go to Jamaica and accidentally find yourself on a boat to Cuba is the easiest way to do it.

Canadians and Europeans travel to Cuba somewhat frequently from what I hear.

It was an ad campaign from like the 1970s.

The loving thing is possible but also loving doesn't really want to associate too much. Like some will mention that we should have a statue about loving and the family keeps saying no.

To me I like having 4 full seasons without us being dumped on for winter or summer. Seems like my ideal climate has moved north somewhat but Virginia was pretty good for a couple of decent snows and didn't get as hot as it is further south.

Kind of in the middle temperature wise while experiencing it all. In New York their winters are absolutely brutal and in the summer the south is unbearable.

This is actually what the Virginia is lover's is supposed to mean.

Virginia is for mountain lovers, Virginia is for beach lovers, Virginia is for wine lovers. It runs the gamut.

Thank you, I've been meaning to try bakeries lately. I called them just now and they said pick up for tomorrow after 12.

Yeah I thought about bringing my pepper plants in and babying them, only like 60 days and they could have had some time outside.

The problem is that electricity is a natural monopoly which means it will basically always be a monopoly so the options are since the cost is too much for their to be naturally competing wires to your house:

1. have it be a state agency

2. have it be a monopoly but heavily regulate it

3. Have it be a Texas style market that guarantees access to the monopoly piece of the physical wires. Which has lead them to basically running out of energy how many times...

Texas.

They have a market that guarantees access to the lines, but privatizes it otherwise.

That's why they keep having power outages the basic theory was that if you could provide power during a very cold time then you would make more money... Turns out the model doesn't work.

I'm a little confused on the $20 limit but also raw oysters. Maybe you might be decently well off going east and playing on a beach as that might not interfere with allergies and oysters are cheaper.

Also azalea flea market is the cheaper version of this.

The farmers market there has not that much produce.

Yeah but it's a huge distinction. We don't have the technology to finish the job but we do have the technology for the next steps for a decade+

>And even still, you probably have natural gas turbines hanging around for a few decades for those low periods, but we use them less and less as we increase storage and over build our wind and solar installs.

That's not the 100% promised that I don't think we have answers to. We have answers for the next step for a decade+ but don't know the grid at 100% carbon free.

With geothermal like you mentioned in your other comment the math all works fine on top of already built hydro.

The study I always talks about 80% renewables with 12 hours of batteries (which is a shit ton) and 20% firm hydro, nuclear geothermal, biomass etc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/california-to-build-temporary-gas-plants-to-avoid-blackouts

The point is not maximum 100% is easy but 100% on the cloudy not windy days you need electricity. There is 0 downtime.

There is enough to continue to reduce consumption but there basically is not a 100% renewable grid. The natural gas would be run sporadically contributing around 10% of power on the low end.

Getting to 100% electricity is hard with renewables. I'm not disputing 60% or even up to like 80%, 90% is a little niche these days.

We have the technology to make massive improvements but not the answer to 100% renewable 0 down time.

But that's the thing is that California has a bunch of natural gas peaked plants because it's hard to get over 70% renewable.

I mean double the solar panels and you are adding excess capacity at the wrong times. The duck curve is a thing so the marginal value added from a solar panel means getting over 80% is incredibly hard with batteries.

Having some amount of firm and dispatchable power is necessary unless our batteries improve an insane amount. Lithium ion isn't the best store of electricity over say 6 months when you are banking solar energy from the winter.

Me too.

Yeah I mean some niche places are getting close to the upper end but renewables can get us rather far.

Yeah we have clear answers about what to add on the marginal short to medium term for decarbonization. Something like 60% renewable on average is the estimated floor I've seen and by the time we get closer to that we'll know what to do for the next part or at least yeah a better idea.

I think geothermal is a clear winner with improved drilling techniques. Leading to less obvious geothermal being added. IDK how far that goes but lots of places could add some.