One of my cousins lived in Altadena right near Fair Oaks and Altadena. He left back in 2020 to move closer to home and get some family assistance raising his daughters. There was nothing left of his old house except the fireplace. I sent him the first series Marketplace did on the fires back in April. I'm sure he knew many of these businesses.
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Two times on yesterday's commute as I moved back out of the left lane after passing someone (as you are supposed to do), the driver I just passed moved into the left lane. Two times.
This is the math problem that makes ABM systems impossibly expensive. Interceptors are more expensive than icbms to begin with and icbms can carry a lot of decoys along with multiple warheads. The only possible way to do it at all economically is an interceptor hitting the icbm in the boost phase but positioning is ... complex
using the power plant for steam heat in other buildings is something that can drive the efficiency of a combined cycle gas plant above 60%. something you really can't do much with nuke plants because they're out in the sticks. nukes tend to be much less efficient than gas plants for that reason (and waste heat is a serious problem with nuke plants).
but anything that uses heat as the primary source of energy is a thermal power plant. coal, gas, nuke, even molten salt solar are all thermal. so the reference here is probably just cultural usage.
There's plans for a BRT system grade separated running along I-10 from Northwest Transit Center into downtown. Metro isn't building more rail, and isn't building the BRT to be readily converted to rail because John Culberson wants everyone to stay in cars.