Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- August 3, 2019

ND: fourth best state for business start-ups -- from Wallethub, notables:

#1: Texas
#2: Utah
#3: Georgia
#4: North Dakota
#5: Oklahoma
#8: California
#9: Montana
#17: Minnesota
#22: South Dakota
#23: Iowa
$42: New York
#46: Connecticut
#47: Hawaii
#48: New Hampshire
#49: New Jersey
#50: Rhode Island

Really poor planning:  no transmission lines -- from Sweden -- from Bloomberg via Yahoo!Finance:

Sweden’s introduction on Thursday of a tax aimed at phasing out the nation’s last remaining coal and gas plants to curb global warming comes with an unintended consequence for some of its biggest cities.

Hiking threefold a levy on fossil fuels used at local power plants will make such facilities unprofitable and utilities from Stockholm Exergi AB to EON SE have said they will halt or cut power production.

The move means that grids in the capital and Malmo won’t be able to hook up new facilities including homes, transport links and factories. While Sweden doesn’t have a shortage of power, there’s not enough cables to ship it to the biggest cities.

EVs in the US: perhaps we can call this the idea of EVs the "Swedish problem." Moving to 100% EVs in the US: no one has thought this through. I would simply be impossible. Even if the US could generate that much electricity, the infrastructure to get it where it was needed, and associated re-charging infrastructure would simply not exist. If nothing else, imagine the footprint of service stations where EVs would re-charge. 

Four Corners Power Plant: Native Americans -1; Faux Environmentalist - 0. Link here.

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Celebrating Corky's Sixth Birthday

I can't recall for sure --- I think Sophia said it was Corky's sixth birthday.

It seems we celebrate Corky's birthday several times each year. Usually about the time Sophia gets another hankering for chocolate cake.