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Psst. https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-storms-science-business-health-7a0fb8c998c1d56759989dda62292379

Problems with the grid and costs to fix them are expected to grow in coming decades, said U.C. Berkeley’s von Meier.

Much of the grid was built decades ago, and the majority of power transmission facilities are now at least 25 years old. That’s forced utilities to quadruple spending on the U.S. transmission system since 2000 to about $40 billion annually, according to Department of Energy data.

Billions more will be spent, with costs passed on to consumers, but those efforts won’t keep up with problems from climate change, von Meier said. “Rates will go up, reliability will go down,” she said.

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My Story

So, here is my story, I have

no earthy college degrees,

a couple of French courses short.

I have been a very good golfer,

basketball player, small town boy,

six time winner of greased pig contest,

big city man, businessman,

interstate highway drifter,

high and low plains America adventurer,

self-indulgent, distant father,

auto-didactic, Ivy Leaguer, scholar,

student, lost soul, historian, art historian,

musicologist, poet, poetry aficionado,

business writer, economist, “Blizzard of One” broadband “David” to

high speed Internet “Goliaths,” Internet Open Access champion,

practical environmentalist,

energy efficiency expert,

3-times matrimony loser, lobbyist, technology theorist, Bakken Basin podcaster, Energy realist, political advocate pain in the ass

and all around gadfly simply…

because I was self-appointed.

It's so much easier,

now that I confessed.

Steve Heins

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As always, super helpful Roger. A question in the context of work by many researchers focused on the non-monetary impacts on wellbeing, health, education of low-income or marginalized communities. Have you or others tried to normalize (pun semi-intended) some way of tracking these harms? e.g., the thousands dislocated in, say, Harvey, who had no renters' insurance, no capacity to seek government assistance, etc. See Diana Liverman's thinking in this post for instance: https://revkin.bulletin.com/558174395365552/ Eager for your insights.

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Roger, simply beautiful work. “Fair, balanced and unafraid.”

This may be your 15 years of fame moment. You deserve it. As Bob Dylan said about Tom waits, he is my secret hero”; And, you are my secret hero, Roger.

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