Montage’s higher self is in therapy sessions with Ymar’s higher self. They getting a good lecture by now.

One possible exception: the Sununu engineer politician family in NH.

I separate this question from expertise in one or more technical fields.

As I write, for example, I’m listening to a technical presentation about an important project related to my work. No way a Congresscritter would have the remotest hope of grasping this material – okay, maybe in the most superficial, general way, but no more than that, I’m confident. But is it really reasonable or appropriate to expect them to have that ability, I ask myself?

Now if it is reasonable to have some such expectation, how is the public supposed to screen candidates for that when the MSM has no competence in whom it pushes? This aside from the painfully obvious factors among the voting public such as innumeracy. I think this is an area in which the existing de-facto mechanisms of our particular system of government are hitting a wall these days.

The authors of almost all articles about energy fail to comprehend the difference between megawatts and megawatt-hours, which is all-important when one is talking about energy storage. To state the storage capacity of a battery or other energy storage system in megawatts is like stating the capacity of your car’s gas tank in horsepower; it is a category error. This is true not just of general journalists but of busines and ‘technology’ journalists as well.

I suddenly wondered why Newsom chose this route that we have been discussing by which to kneecap the fossil-fuel economy on the West Coast. Did he feel the state legislature would be insufficiently compliant as a means to enact this program by normal means? Why, since CA is so left as it is? Maybe it just seemed more efficient to him to do it this way. Maybe there were other, higher-order effects that he wishes to cause by this method. I don’t follow his entire history of ruling by executive orders, so maybe there’s some kind of inside baseball background here.

Equating this order with turning California into old Communist China is sensationalism and just as fake as lots of other “news”.

Newsome’s “executive order” is more like a decree: an order having the force of law. Commies and other dictators rule by decree. I want it so, and so it shall be.

As California currently imports about a quarter to a third of its electrical energy, Newsome’s “executive order,” a.k.a. decree, flouts reality. How is a state that is far from self-sufficient in electrical energy, going to supply the vastly increased need for electrical energy that this decree implies?

I am reminded of Mao’s decree that certain bird species, because they had been observed eating grain planted in fields, should be hunted down. Guess what? Because those birds also ate a lot of insects, fewer birds caused insect populations to zoom upwards, resulting in devastated grain crops. Set the stage for the great famine.

As both the Governor and Mao have issued decrees that flout reality, I find the comparison apt.

I would like to read objective articles about self-driving cars, better batteries, and the real cost of alternative energy. Labeling each other and our leaders is not productive.

If you haven’t already noticed, Huxley provided a link.

–“Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’”

Have you taken the effort to read it? Inquiring minds want to know.