Microsoft 'Cuts The Cord' With A Local Power Utility To Pursue Greener Energy (seattletimes.com)

Frosty Piss summarizes the Seattle Times: Microsoft will bypass Puget Sound Energy to secure carbon-free power on wholesale markets under an agreement with state regulators. In 2015, 60 percent of PSE electricity came from coal and natural-gas plants, according to company statistics. The agreement calls for Microsoft to pay a $23.6 million transition fee to Puget Sound Energy, which the utility will pass on to its Western Washington customers... But the settlement does not address one major financial issue that hangs over PSE and its customers -- how to handle the costs of shutting down coal-fired units in the Colstrip, Montana, power station... State regulators and Puget Sound Energy determined that Microsoft is legally responsible for a share of the Colstrip, Montana coal-fired generating plant costs.

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Re:Climate change deniers

[Ol Olsoc]

Yet another example of why the climate change deniers are just irrelevent. Let them scream, argue, bitch and moan, lie about the " war on coal" like Mitch McConnell (R- retard) does, but in the end, they are nothing.

Things are changing and things as being done - regardless of the Republicans quest to turn this country and World into a hot backwards theocratic shithole.

The process of handing leadership to the world has accelerated, and the deniers are pleased that Science, something that they do not believe in at all, is properly ignored in the administration of their dear leader https://www.vox.com/energy-and... which is as it should be.

The Republican's have found the ultimate loophole. With a vote, or with an election, the entire set of the laws of physics can be nullified.

But to be serious, as American tunnels down this anti-science mineshaft, we are ceding leadership in science, soon engineering, and eventually economically, as we intentionally pave the way for the Chinese yuan to ascend to the world's standard currency.

These things are connected. You don't stay competitive in a global market by ignoring science and technology. You don't continue military superiority if you don't utilize science advances, and the technology that follows hand in hand. And if you have neither, as you slip and slide backwards, another country is all too happy to take your place.

We have taught the new generation of non-US scientists and engineers, and they are returning to their home countries to move into the future, while we hand our money over to a few folks and prepare to enjoy our slipping into second world status.