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goodsam2 t1_j7vmqrq wrote

Reply to comment by Vericeon in Renewables are on track to satiate the world's appetite for electricity by ForHidingSquirrels

I mean growth stopped, renewables are cheaper than starting new plants.

Then renewables replace retiring Fossil fuel plants.

Then renewables accelerate retirement plans for fossil fuels.

Also natural gas and renewables work well together in a brief period because if the sun and wind stop you can add natural gas easily.

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goodsam2 t1_j7vmfl4 wrote

Reply to comment by ForHidingSquirrels in Renewables are on track to satiate the world's appetite for electricity by ForHidingSquirrels

I just don't see how it's possible with current tech.

I'm a huge optimist with renewables with batteries and their S curves. I just think we have all the answers to increase renewables and batteries for another decade(which we probably have a better idea of what to do in a decade in 8/9 years) but having a 100% wind/solar grid with batteries is hella expensive, some firm dispatchable energy is required. The amount of solar panels equal to 100% up time goes up a stupid amount.

I think we get to a floor of 60% renewable(based on current tech) but 100% is a problem.

Hydro can fill this some places but others I'm not so sure.

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goodsam2 t1_j5zjrg4 wrote

Reply to Wait…. I’m posting the Thursdaily? by wagonboss

Does anyone know someone in the legal profession I could talk to. I never received any bills because DPU sent it to my old address. Apparently the city of Richmond says that they haven't received any water bill payments in 18 months but I've been paying my landlord was supposed to be paying that. Water bill is handled per the lease by the landlord...

Now one was giving me estimates into the month range, I was wondering about putting money in escrow or something.

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goodsam2 t1_j5u6ko8 wrote

Reply to Am I a dummy for wanting to live in a corporate apartment complex in Short Pump or Glen Allen? by Electrical_Order_442

I mean I would live close to the stuff you need to/want to be by. I mean if you both work out in innsbrook then live down that way. If you are what mid 30s and don't drink that much it doesn't seem that weird.

I mean you know generally what you will find in the museum district and the city (though far more affluent these days.)

A lot of that stuff out there seems soulless but more or less fine apartments.

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goodsam2 t1_j5q2wpv wrote

Reply to Happy Tuesdaily from the platform of Main Street Station. What’s the best spot to see the sunrise? by funkipus

Oh man DPU is so bad at their job.

They have apparently been billing me at my old address despite them having me tell them to send it to the new address.

Now they are claiming a water bill that I've been paying my landlord ( who switched last summer) has gone un-paid for 18 months... What a rats nest to unfurl.

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goodsam2 t1_j4pxybm wrote

Reply to Home improvement learning by ptt2020kpl

For YouTube watching I would recommend this old house.

A lot of home improvement shows make for unrealistic expectations but this one builds you up and shows how it is possible.

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goodsam2 t1_j2yujoa wrote

Reply to comment by rvafun100 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

>Vacancy rate is MUCH higher than 1.7%. Take a walk at night, you’ll see lots of dark buildings with “leasing now” signs.

You can have the apartment empty for some time, like if people were off or somewhere else at night or gasp turn the lights off at night.

>One way to curb demand is to not haphazardly build build build…if potential transplants can’t find a place to live they move elsewhere, like Durham. Mind blowing right

The way demand is curbed now is higher prices which I think changes who and what kind of person lives there. You can live in your place while your neighbors just go up in income as the neighborhood grows in price, this is the real gentrification. Gentrifiers were priced out of the neighborhoods they wanted instead of stuff being but for them. They will move in until the price reaches a level where Durham is cheaper which will take some time since Durham is way more expensive.

Agglomeration benefits are fought in this country for no good reason. Pissing away trillions because you were sold a lie.

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goodsam2 t1_j2ytm4g wrote

Reply to comment by Scuzwheedl0r in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

>I totally agree that these mid-density housing options are excellent for maintaining a smaller land base while still providing units. I know a few of them have gone up in Eugene in the past few years, it just seems the backlog of demand has really outstripped supply.

5 stories tall for blocks on end would put it in the top densities in America. Most towers are surrounded by like grass and then a parking lot so there isn't nearly as much or lower density than staying lower and it's just preference at some point.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/3/comparing-approaches-to-achieving-density

What I'm saying you could be 11x denser than the fan with just that...

>Like the recent infrastructure bill that has been sorely needed, we need some kind of construction subsidization bill to get people in reasonable mortgages. I think the amount of stability for a family that ownership provides will create huge economic benefits down the line. And even though it may hurt my own home value, its a hit i'm willing to take to solve this overall problem. I would like to imagine others would as well, but NIMBY has never been more specifically applicable than with this problem!

I think increasing housing will continue the increase in housing prices, walkability would likely increase and most density changes would lead to people who want the suburban home near the middle of the city. Your prices would rise while per unit prices would hopefully be stable/fall.

I think we can solve a lot of this through regulations and pilot programs to get some development started. Allowing things to be built is step 1.

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goodsam2 t1_j2ys9dx wrote

Reply to comment by rvafun100 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

But look at the increase in demand, we have a rental vacancy rate of 1.7% when something in the 5-8% range is needed.

What you don't seem to understand is that we have increased the amount being built, but I think we need even more. The prices clearly indicate that demand is outstripping supply.

I think we can clearly link the lack of household formation to housing supply and housing prices. The household formation rate increased in the spring and housing prices spiked and supply was extremely low.

I really think Richmond city needs to be adding more units to stay affordable. I think the lack of building has been making the city more expensive and less cool more than any preservation has done.

You keep saying I'm too dumb to explain and yet I have data sources to back up my assessments.

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goodsam2 t1_j2yp3wa wrote

Reply to comment by rvafun100 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

Those fan like townhomes that completely miss the mark because they are weighted down by being lower density because people demand 3 parking spots is the problem here. Richmond has regulations adding parking spots to many of these places.

The amount of buildings going up is a relative increase especially with the regulation changes to allow more like TOD-1 but what I'm saying is we need more. We need to get used to more building, the amount of building being done across this country was not enough and needs to be increased. Multifamily housing increased due to a decrease in regulations (due in people like me arguing for reduced regulations) and cities becoming pricier as demand has increased and supply has been stable. It's illegal to build new housing in a lot of America.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST5F

Haphazardly is not the word I would use. We need to just allow people to build. Why do you want to thwart the free market and instead stop people from building homes? So the zoning codes of the fan were haphazard and the problem or the nicest part of Richmond?

> It’s a MUCH more dynamic equation than you surmise with simple supply/demand thinking.

Explain it to me then and explain why it's completely different from cars. The simple example is that in the 1980s they banned some Japanese car imports, so Toyota, Honda and Nissan created the luxury car brands of Lexus, Acura and Infiniti to increase the price due to the limiting of supply (really the threat of limiting). So cars the other very expensive good that many buy has the exact same effects. Why do you twist yourself in circles to convince yourself that it's not supply and demand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus?wprov=sfla1

>If you really want some high-density dystopian city then move back to the city from which you hail.

High density cities are not dystopian, suburbs are IMO. You want to force me to buy because we aren't adding enough housing. Suburbs are government subsidized because low densities increase the public to private ratio and we overtax cities. Suburban poverty has outpaced urban poverty for decades at this point.

People pay a premium to live in the city, people must like it but no live in a shitty ugly cape cod.

Also this is every city, the point here is that demand has been outstripping supply for decades. Where is the affordable high density city you want me to move to. All of America decided to ramp up zoning regulations at the same time around the 1970s and so we have housing unaffordability.

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goodsam2 t1_j2y3hlr wrote

Reply to comment by xDocFearx in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

To me I think it's a unhappy medium of many things, the mall is nice but it's annoying to get there and you always pay for parking.

It's not on anything resembling a grid anywhere so all the roads criss cross. Confusing names drive on 3 streets named rugby that intersect.

Charlottesville has legitimately worse traffic than Richmond despite being 1/4 the size.

They do pull better than you would reckon just looking at metrics concert wise what they do.

Some neat historical stuff, UVA has some nice amenities though I don't like the snootiness of a lot of it.

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goodsam2 t1_j2y377k wrote

Reply to comment by STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

>What about middle and high school?

It's moving up from the bottom.

>The sad fact is that as long as you have education-focused parents with the means (wealth) to remove themselves from poor students, they will continue to do so, and currently that means moving away from the poor students.

Which means not moving into the suburbs where poverty has been rising faster than urban areas for 2 decades.

Explain to me how we have the fan and entry price is twice as high as the suburbs and has a worse school long term.

>Implementing school choice would remove the necessity of moving away.

I mean yes but also what level of choice are we talking about here. I think we need to keep them in public schools.

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goodsam2 t1_j2xy1kd wrote

Reply to comment by STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

I think that answer is changing rapidly, fan museum district with high housing prices lead to good schools.

Suburbs having good schools and cheap housing IMO is a dying concept. High housing prices means good schools. Infrastructure costs are getting to the suburbs now.

Look at great schools for elementary some of the best schools in the metro area in city limits and the numbers are improving, if I had a kid now I would send them in the city rather than out for the express purpose of better school future.

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