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   Dev (dev@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 04:58:16 JST Dev

   Dam I just lost power

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 04:58:14 JST feld

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     > But kinda cool that all my power comes from solar and wind.
     
     well you're paying the higher rate to support it but the electrons coming down the wire could be from anywhere -- even another state with a dirty generation source
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     Dev (dev@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 04:58:15 JST Dev

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     While we’re on the topic, the power company sent me a breakdown of generation sources for SF, and it is fascinating

     I guess I didn’t need to switch to SuperGreen as green is plenty renewable. But kinda cool that all my power comes from solar and wind.

     Another thing that I found fascinating was the 63% nuclear share for PG&E. That’s a lot of nuclear

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     Dev (dev@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 04:58:16 JST Dev

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     Tech job snow day moment

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 06:07:58 JST feld

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     @dev but it's not like routing packets on a network though, you can't deliver energy from one generation source to one customer. You just get whatever electrons are currently being pushed through the grid from wherever it comes. Think of it like water and plumbing.
     
     Being in Cali basically guarantees you're already getting pretty clean energy, but for example when I was living in Wisconsin I was paying for the green energy from my provider. I was just paying a higher rate to help them build more wind and solar; my power was still coming from the natural gas plant nearby.
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     Dev (dev@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 06:07:59 JST Dev

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     @feld pretty sure the power I get is from CleanPowerSF, PGE just distributes it