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  1. They really ought to start calling diving on punters. It's one thing if they legit get hit, but when the guy acts like he's just been murdered with a player just being in the vicinity, that needs to be called.
  2. I could be wrong on this, but I'm thinking Auburn vs Georgia is going to be a much closer affair than people or Vegas are thinking.
  3. The North Carolina defense seems a bit suspect.
  4. That's interesting, because I actually was never thinking of burying main transmission lines, primarily because I was thinking that was completely impractical. Also, from what I understand, the main lines generally do well in high winds, particularly because they are designed and rated for it. I was thinking of mainly branch lines. Basically, I didn't even know the utility companies were going this route. I'm sure there is a good reason for this, can you enlighten?
  5. What a fucking disgrace. the Purple Heart is reserved to those that in the course of duties, such as defending the United States, or engaging the enemy in action that person is wounded. This fucking guy never served, was doing none of the requirements to meet these standards and has the temerity to lay claim to such an honor. Its insulting to the near 50k of soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen/women rightfully awarded the purple heart that have done so over the last 30 years. Interesting tidbit, a real purple heart has the sitting President's name engraved on, so in this instance where it to be real, Dotard's would be engraved with President Joe Biden.
  6. Yes he was, and voted back in. He's a complete jackass.
  7. Got flu last week, today got rona and pneumococcal pneumonia today. 9 hours later feel great, just a bit of soreness in each arm. I hadn't had a rona shot in probably 2 years, easy as can be.
  8. Oh yeah, well the Dog Faced Germlin is on my school board.
  9. Something didn't mesh with numbers on all this with me so I did some crunching, just out of plain curiosity. So the initial, call it 20 billion expense (I'm using round numbers for ease, but bear with me) is against a customer base of approximately 20 million customers. Even if debt service and profit were figured for 10%, this would equate to roughly a $100 per customer increase annually, or $8.33 per month per customer. This is a bit misleading though, because this customer base includes commercial customers, who obviously consume more power. So I think it's fair to say, that the impact to most residential customers would be considerably less than even that. Even with the the cost over run, lets say you doubled it to the tune of $40 billion, and applied the same basic numbers, the math would say $16.66 per customer per month, which again includes commercial customers, which wildly skew the numbers. What I'm getting at, is that this report seems to be very misleading, I'm going to guess that the average residential customer is only going to see a monthly increase of $8 per month, which given inflation is barely noticeable to most people (not to minimize the importance of it). This would also explain why no one is up in arms about it. I'd also point out, that the anti-nuclear group is the pushing narrative on the doomsday customer costs (hint they want coal). As to the argument on the utility itself profiting off the over run, this to me is a separate issue, but at the end of the day, once you have a certain set sunk cost, in this case $15 billion, you have two options, either stop or keep going. If you stop, you spent $15 billion for essentially nothing, if you see the matter thru you paid more but it works. This really isn't much of a choice. No one is going to dead weight loss $15 billion, that'll assuredly get you tarred and feathered. In order to finish the job, there will be change orders and add on costs, so while I get the framing of the argument "Georgia Power shouldn't profit off it's mistakes!", anyone that has ever been around any sort of development knows that there will be over runs and change orders, this is normal. Interestingly enough, this exact circumstance occurred when Vogtle 1 and 2 started. Both were in mid construction right when 3 mile island happened and overnight the design had to be refined for additionally safety, which of course ballooned the project. One other aspect about the budget over run, the plan first came to fruition in about 2006 with that budget. It was based on costs for the first 2 reactors that were completed 20 years early. For the next few years, the project had to thru regulatory review, and redesigned to meet the new regulatory demands. All this added tremendous cost, but was far from unexpected. I'd be willing to be that well over half the over run came before the project actually kicked off, and that very little of the overrun was due to actual construction change orders done post kick off.
  10. You think Einstein walked around thinking everyone was a bunch of dumb-shits? Now you know why he built that bomb.
  11. I know each utility is buried to a certain depth to give each it's own right of way so to speak. I don't regularly deal with this, so I don't know the exact order or depth of each. It stands to reason that for safety reasons that electricity and gas would be two of the lowest though. As it applies to this conversation, the other really cool thing is that they can do all this under existing roads and sidewalks with disrupting them.
  12. Well, old school developments (at least around here) when doing your site work and roughing in utilities, you'd have to dig trenches for everything, from beginning to end. In order to do this, you'd need lots of equipment digging and then guys to run the line, followed by re-burying it (and a bunch of other shit I'm leaving out). With this equipment, I've seen a crew of three guys do a 100 or so home new development in a matter of a couple of weeks. They have to dig a hole about every 100 feet, and bore does the rest of the work. All those guys do is rough in, meaning the actually equipment (transformers, meters, etc) are done by lineman, but they come in after the fact. It's amazingly fast, so much so that I've seen guys run 100 foot runs in under 30 minutes, and best yet, it takes a crew with a mini-ex and the bore, all of which can be towed with one truck. I've even seen a plumber use this method to rough in from the meter to the slab forms (I've only ever seen that done once, with pex, but I've seen it). I don't know the limitations of all this when it comes to different soil types, but considering that we have a lot of granite around here, and that doesn't seem to give these guys any trouble, I'd imagine that it's suitable for most conditions. I know that when the fiber op boom happened this is when all this sort of stuff became normal within that industry, and shortly thereafter if began to matriculate to other trades. I don't know who pioneered this, but it's pretty cool stuff. Ultimately, the real cost is the cable itself, but that of course, was always going to be there.
  13. Well, the hydraulic processes that was really implemented with all the fiber op stuff makes the cost and general intrusions a lot cheaper.
  14. There was some level of criticism (as well there should have been for over-runs), and it was reported upon within the media, however, I've never once heard any rank and file customer bitch about it once. The total costs make it a juicy story because of the big dollar signs, but the reality for most customers is that it's doubtful they've even noticed. Timing might have been kind to this situation given the state of inflation on everything else. Most customers are aware that even in spite of over-runs, we still have some of the lowest rates going.
  15. I know you are wrong on the last point, we just spent 20 billion on two new reactors, not one word of negativity.
  16. I would disagree with this, albeit over time (and also because we aren't in Texas in a pure for profit situation and our rates are fixed (mine is 9 cents per kw hour). Because of monopoly laws with utilities GA Power and it's parent Southern Company have a profit margin that is capped at 6% (they aren't guaranteed this profit, it's a bit more complicated, but capped nonetheless). Doing this would absolutely have a cost, and it is absolutely more expensive on the front end, but in the long term probably not. Whether we realize it or not, maintaining the lines is part of our costs, and the fact that we have to employ as many lineman and the like for situations just like this has a huge cost. If over time, this cost was phased out, it would eventually break even if not even begin to be more economically practical. So the difficult part would be convincing customers that 30 years from now it's worth it to pay 1 cent more per kw hour right now in order to have this (obviously paying 10% more is a tough sale for a lot of people).
  17. I know it's gonna be real expensive, but this sort of thing screams the need to bury as much electrical line as possible.
  18. It's the Notre Dame of disease.
  19. Cry havoc and let slip the self cannibals of war?
  20. Man did we ever get lucky in Atlanta. That map is a bit chilling, the state of Georgia was really fortunate because basically that path was almost perfectly over the least densely populated areas possible. Also, just as an aside, the night maps are really freaking cool.
  21. If ever you find yourself in a big level meeting, and one person sticks out like a sore thumb, it's more than likely that they are there for a reason. I've seen this play out multiple times with fast talking slicksters that think they have all the leverage and what not, and wind up getting embarrassed. Good rule of thumb, if someone is in the room with you in a meeting always assume they may well be the boss.
  22. I'd love to find out.
  23. Along the lines of interesting advertising, we've been getting what I believe are Vietnamese ads for Kamala on certain platforms. I'd recently read that the Democratic campaign has placed a real emphasis on the Asian American vote here in specifically Atlanta. We only see these on certain platforms, like Hulu and Pluto, but it's clear there is an effort. I know a lot of people use different platforms to get news and shows from back home, so I guess that's part of this. Considering that every election in Georgia is so close, I really like this strategy. We do have a large Asian first and second generation community here, so there is a real opportunity for meaningful pickups with this.
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